To antiskate or not antiskate

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?

+1 for WallyTools. Highly recommended. The site is an EXCELLENT source of information, in addition to AS.

@tonyptony Your thought that the WallySkater adjustment might not have been quite right is very possible.  As a person who also has AnalogMagik you can appreciate that it is equally possible that I didn't get it quite right.  AS is not a stand alone setting, it changes with other variables, particularly VTA, VTF and Azimuth.  Somehow I am failing to convey that it is anything but straight forward in these discussions.

My question is and always has been what could a tool add to AS adjustment, beyond the method even burped up by AI, with which I agree.  Listen with no AS. You may hear no problem if your tonearm has enough horizontal friction in its bearings or if the wires are stiff enough to provide the AS that is needed.  Otherwise, you will hear distortion in the R channel (which I always do hear with my Triplanar).  Then add AS in tiny increments until the distortion goes away, and etc per the AI quote. So how is the Wally Skater going to add to that in any important way?

I read above that the Wally recommends that AS be 20% of VTF, but another user claimed he preferred 17%.  Mijostyn, who built his own instrument to measure AS, claimed 11% was the correct target. What does it matter if you just use the least amount of AS so as to eliminate distortions heard in the R channel without AS and not so much AS so as to introduce distortion in the L channel? Plus, I don't know how anyone can quote a specific percentage of VTF (even if one could measure AS in grams as claimed by the WallySkater), when we all agree that the skating force is going to be different depending upon length of tonearm (really it's the headshell offset angle, which is smaller for longer tonearms), VTF, and stylus shape, at the very least.