Anti-Skate Weight …. Better sound without it?

lewm

'Pet Peeve' about Dust Covers I accept, obsession seems unfair. 

Like you, I remove my dust cover during play, advise others to remove them, my peeve is that the majority of the time these fanciful and expensive creations with high precision parts are off, and leaving them out to airborne contaminants is unwise, selling them without a dust cover seems irresponsible to me.

Bearings wear, that takes a long time, but they are effected by airborne contaminants to large or small accumulating degree, and evidence of lack of need for AS reveals both.

devinplombier

thank god for people like you, my imagined beneficiary!

 let us know how it goes!

let me know if you find alternate tools, other methods, any way I was unclear, I tried to be concise, keep it simple, I can always edit it.

E, you do realize that most styli are mounted with at least some zenith error. Dave Slagle says the industry standard is +/-5 degrees. Even a 1or 2 degree error can completely destroy alignment accuracy, no matter the instrument used to achieve alignment. Furthermore few of us have the equipment and judgement necessary to account for zenith error. So I would guess that the majority of us are under the false impression that our cartridges are aligned properly. So I’d say do the best you can but be aware of the problem. As regards azimuth, I have almost come to the conclusion that the capacity to adjust azimuth may be dangerous if the goal is seating the stylus squarely in the groove. (If you’re looking for minimal crosstalk electronically that’s even more fraught, since the end result may be that the stylus sits at an angle in the groove, which results in aberrant stylus wear.) And finally as regards AS, all the tonearms I know about apply AS in a manner that is oblivious to the ever changing angle and magnitude of the skating force. So AS is like the stopped clock that is nevertheless is correct only for two moments in a 24 hour day. So the best one can hope for is a value that reduces the distortion due to skating, if audible, most of the time. There is no such thing as an exact correct value so why bother with fancy gear to set AS which shouldn’t be any better than by ear. In that connection, why would a string and weight AS device be inferior to one that uses magnets?

lewm,

I've asked you twice whether you fixed your 7082 arm's counterweight sag, no answer?

A string and weight has notches, limited to the choices of it's graduated steps, a magnet is infinitely adjustable, which I like better. I do have trouble trusting that the magnetic force won't change, so I re-check by habit.

we are making a strong case for streaming, you have gone to the next level now.