To antiskate or not antiskate

The Holbo sounds like a reincarnation of the late lamented Maple Knoll turntables once made in the US.

But as to the issue of vibration, isn’t it possible for an air bearing to vibrate due to any pulsatile quality of the air supply? Some air bearings employ various strategies to counter act that issue, or so I thought. (Never owned an air bearing TT or tonearm.)

PS. I can’t understand why the idea to set AS using a blank (groove less) LP will not die the natural death it deserves. The reason it might “work” or appear to do so is in my opinion because setting AS is such an inexact science to begin with. 

With respect to the Wally Skater, my personal experience is quite limited and not entirely satisfactory.  Recently upon the acquisition of AnalogMagik software I have corrected the antiskate setting on a turntable that I was informed had been adjusted using a Wally Skater.  There is no way to know if it had been done correctly or not.  As lewm has correctly stated, however, setting AS is anything but an exact science.  It can literally vary from record to record, or from the inside to the outside of the same record.  Contrary to suggestions to the contrary this is an extremely difficult subject, there are no easy answers, Wally Skater or otherwise.

@billstevenson  yes skating forces are not constant—they vary with groove modulation, stylus geometry, tracking force, and record eccentricity—thus, anti-skating compensation represents an averaged corrective force intended to minimize the net lateral load over the duration of playback.  Without “any” anti- skate, the magnitude of the error is enhanced. 

With respect to the Wally Skater, my personal experience is quite limited and not entirely satisfactory.  Recently upon the acquisition of AnalogMagik software I have corrected the antiskate setting on a turntable that I was informed had been adjusted using a Wally Skater.

Interesting. I have both WallySkater and AM v1 and v2. IMownE I’ve found the result from WallySkater to be consistent with the best readings I get from AM. Perhaps the person who did that WallySkater adjustment didn’t quite get it right?