Fr24

Mijostyn, I am just curious. You wrote, "Good anti skating devices diminish force as the arm moves towards the center of the record."  Why would that be "good" necessarily, since we know the skating force waxes and wanes in magnitude, as the stylus moves across the surface of an LP?  And the minimum skating force is certainly not what dominates at the innermost grooves.

Too much anti-skate can be just as damaging as too little antiskate. And because the skating force is varying across the surface of an LP at any given moment, finding a setting for anti skate that is just about right, like the temperature of the porridge in the story of the three bears and Goldilocks, is a difficult task, if you worry about it a lot.One way to think about it is if there is audible distortion in the right channel, then you probably should add a little anti-skate force. If you hear audible distortion in the left channel, and you have ruled out other causes, it is possible that you have applied too much anti skate. Just adjust the antiskate to the point where you don’t hear distortion in either channel. That setting won’t be perfect, because there is no perfect. Another bit of gospel about antiskate is that most recommendations for AS as a function of VTF are too high. Use less than recommended.