Anti skate affects the tracking ability of your stylus how well the needle is able to move across your records.
Vinyl engine anti skate.
Turntables with cartridges fixed to the tonearm don t need an adjustable anti skate feature because the cartridge cannot be changed and no counterweight is needed.
I also have an ar ta turntable that doesn t have any anti skate and works just fine.
It should be set as specified in the manual for your turntable and cartridge.
Some thorens turntables use a magnet to control the a s.
My dual uses a spring.
Vtf is adjusted with the counterweight on the end of the tonearm.
Some use a line with a weight on the end.
Get it badly wrong and you risk having the stylus jumping around like a kid on a trampoline adding wear and tear on the grooves themselves.
How do you set the perfect anti skate force of your tonearm.
Get it right and the stylus runs through your vinyl grooves like a good un.
First set the anti skate equal to the vertical tracking force vtf.
The fact that a record player doesn t come with an anti skate knob doesn t imply that the turntable will skate.
Thus properly adjusted anti skating mechanism will not only improve sound quality but also decrease wear of the vinyl and the stylus.
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Adjusting anti skate is usually a two step process.
In this video you will see different methods with their specific pros an.
Anti skate works pretty much the same with all turntables that have it but not all a s is designed the same.
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Anti skate post by hobie1dog 24 nov 2018 17 53 this aspect of turntables always bothered me about getting it right as was one of the reasons why i just bought a linear tracking model.
