To antiskate or not antiskate

@lewm 
 

Arbitrary or contrived percentages.

l think l am on the same wavelength as you regarding AS, and always trust my ears for those final adjustments.

l take perfect round percentages, or conveniently rounded off 100s of millions of dollars/pounds offered up by politicians in the same flawed way. To quantify difficult situations or actions with such claims can look highly questionable. The Wally 20% figure sounds like a rough approximation, or is it a definite fact, that is what it is?

l admit l know nothing first hand about the Wally thing, but amusingly it sounds a bit like my ice skating, which l am a right wally at. So in that regard, l’m in the anti-skating camp too.

If the WallySkater is at 20% of VTF that is roughly double what Technics estimates is good for their G series TTs.  On my VPI HW40 with the Hyperion it seems that little to zero AS is OK.  On my HW19, currently with SME 3009 Series II and ART 20, the SME standard setting for the fish line and weight seems good.  My observations are now verified using AnalogMagik and confirmed with my ears.  Again every combination is different so my data is inconclusive.  I know from years of setting up TTs that setting AS is all over the map.  Also in closing it is not possible to know what % of VTF my settings are (even on the GAE there is no way to verify Technics estimate).  The settings are made in balance with other parameters to minimizes distortion.  

@iseland I probably was not there first one to eventually realize you’re talking about a tangential tonearm, which changes the whole game.

For a true tangential tonearm, the required anti-skating compensation is essentially zero.

However, in certain designs, a tiny residual bias may still exist due to bearing friction, offset geometry imperfections, or servo lag (but I think the one you are looking at is not using servo control), and some tonearms include a small adjustment to fine-tune for that, such as the one you mention. Usually it’s extremely small (on the order of 0.05–0.2 g equivalent).

In practice the vast majority of users can run with zero bias compensation on a linear tracker.

Bummer, it’s news to me if any linear tracker actually incorporates an AS device, if only for the good reason that any skating force would be tiny and constantly changing in direction, pulling the arm wand toward then away from the spindle at alternating moments.

Well @bimmerlover I don't have the tangential arm just yet, but when I do the need for antiskate is obsolete.  For now I needed advice about a 12 inch unipivot setup.