Jason, the vast majority of tonearm and cartridge manufacturers disagree vehemently. Although skating changes across the record arms with anti skate track way better than arms without. Anyone can prove that to themselves with a tracking test record. Turn off your anti skating and the right channel will miss track long before the left channel. Fact of life, can't argue with it and so forth. Most of us would never consider an offset arm without anti skating. There is a good reason FR did not survive. These arms are antiques and should be treated as such. Put the in a glass case and look at them once in a while.