Anti-Skating or just let it skate? Your opinion.

I think the concept of anti-skating makes sense, but in practice I leave the hanging weight contraption off my SME IIIs arm because it sounds better that way. This reinforces Harry Weisfield's (VPI President) contention that conventional anti-skating devices tend to slightly muddy or veil the sound. I'm running the SME with four interchangeable armtubes (ADC, Grace, Ortofon and Pickering cartridges) at approx. 1g and hear no inner-groove distortion with any of them. In general, I believe the less AS, the better, subject to any audible inner-groove problems, which tend to reflect arm deficiencies, IMHO.
Dave

Yeah, Pbb, but remember that Roy Gandy doesn't even believe in cleaning records, or in doing anything to his tonearms that would allow you to adjust their VTA (except via washer/spacers). Dave