Your setup is wrong. Its not the a/s. Check all the parameters. Look at the stylus to make sure it is not bent and properly seated in the cartridge. Make sure the arm itself is level,....that the overhang is correct, and then set the vtf using an appropriate scale. When that is right, check for correct azimuth.....the very last thing is adjusting the anti-skate. If you forget to even use the a/s..that's quite all right. When all is right you then can fool with the stylus rake angle....(probably a week later) If you then raise, lower the back, reset all the parameters yet again.
HELP! Technics SL1200GR/Benz Glider Anit-Skate Setting High
I just mounted a Benz Micro Glider on a LPGear Pro Headshell which looks like the standard Technics headshell but is not up to the same quality as an original and I think is lighter.
When I first mounted it, I couldn't set the VTA correctly because the cartridge height was too low. I had a plastic "angled" shim that I had from an old Dual DD turntable I had in the late '70's.
I installed that and was able to get the vta set OK.
But, when playing, I noticed that if I set the stylus down at the end of the last song on a side it would just fly into the label area. I usually set the anti-skate at about 10 below the tracking force. For the Glider the tracking force was set at 1.9 so I set the A/S at 1. I kept increasing it until the cartridge would not fly into the label. I ended up at 3 (the max.) A/S force.
I've never had this happen before.
I tried adding weight to the headshell and resetting everything and the anti-skate setting doesn't change still high.
I've often read many times that people usually have the A/S set too high even when they have it set to the same value as the tracking force. Mine is set at least 10 higher?
Any ideas?
Thanks, Nick
When I first mounted it, I couldn't set the VTA correctly because the cartridge height was too low. I had a plastic "angled" shim that I had from an old Dual DD turntable I had in the late '70's.
I installed that and was able to get the vta set OK.
But, when playing, I noticed that if I set the stylus down at the end of the last song on a side it would just fly into the label area. I usually set the anti-skate at about 10 below the tracking force. For the Glider the tracking force was set at 1.9 so I set the A/S at 1. I kept increasing it until the cartridge would not fly into the label. I ended up at 3 (the max.) A/S force.
I've never had this happen before.
I tried adding weight to the headshell and resetting everything and the anti-skate setting doesn't change still high.
I've often read many times that people usually have the A/S set too high even when they have it set to the same value as the tracking force. Mine is set at least 10 higher?
Any ideas?
Thanks, Nick
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