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Reed 2G magnetic antiskate
For what it's worth,  I found out from my latest discussions on agon regarding antiskate that the arm should move towards centre even on the blank side just not as fast .there are links in the end of the discussions if you search my to antiskate o... 
Forget cables as snakeoil. There's a new snake King in town.
Well you don't need golden ears to hear the difference between the ti op amps that was originally in the input stage of my amps and the sparkos that I've replaced them with.   
Would switching from RCA-RCA to XLR-RCA from Preamp to Amp result in higher gain
Usually singel ended have half the voltage of balanced outputs.  Amps have different gainfaktor, so there you have it 🙂 And no you don’t get higher gain by feeding single ended input with xlr output from pre.  
Phono Stage with XLR outs
Get the moonriver 505 and forget all the others ...   
There's no science behind belief
+1 @wtyamamoto   
To antiskate or not antiskate
Thank you @yogiboy ,had I known about this excellent video before posting this thread it would never never existed 😁  
Second Round of Questions on Speaker Cables
Always nice to see members present them self with name and age in their profile.   
To antiskate or not antiskate
I've been reading everything here at least twice,  even the AI input.   To conclude, I need antiskate in some amount even with a long arm but it's alot less than with my 9 ish arms . Impressions after listening alot this week is , why did I wait... 
To antiskate or not antiskate
Well @bimmerlover I don't have the tangential arm just yet, but when I do the need for antiskate is obsolete.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.   
To antiskate or not antiskate
Well Mr Richard ,you are preaching for the quire . Aa I mentioned earlier, my eyes are firmly set on the TT3 tangential arm from clearaudio and in the absence this is as close as I can get.   
To antiskate or not antiskate
Here I run everything balanced,  I even make my own cables because they are better than anything else that I've tried.  It's been a while since I've used the blank record trick but it might direkt me in the right direction ,or I might just wait f... 
To antiskate or not antiskate
It wasn't a budget helper at about $450 here in Europe 😳 but in regards to the rest of the gear it's coffee change or there about 😆  
To antiskate or not antiskate
Ok , I'm corrected and I will add the lightest weight to start with and listen again..  
To antiskate or not antiskate
Thanks for the tip @thebrokenrecord I will order one 👍   
To antiskate or not antiskate
First of all,  thank you all for good advice and helpful input.  I have used all the tools in my possession,  had another go with the protractor from feickert, digital scale from ortofon, larger libell from ortofon ( air bubble disc thing 😳) and ...