How do you set the perfect anti skate force of your tonearm.
Anti skate vinyl engine.
Again vinyl engine is a great resource for manuals.
Some use a line with a weight on the end.
If you re installing a new cartridge connect the red blue green and white wires to the corresponding marked terminals on the back of the.
Once you have that then its down to test.
Anti skate affects the tracking ability of your stylus how well the needle is able to move across your records.
My dual uses a spring.
Some thorens turntables use a magnet to control the a s.
The fact that a record player doesn t come with an anti skate knob doesn t imply that the turntable will skate.
If your tone arm drifts in either direction remove the arm from the blank and slowly turn your anti skate adjustment.
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Get it badly wrong and you risk having the stylus jumping around like a kid on a trampoline adding wear and tear on the grooves themselves.
Bias is set by visual inspection of how the stylus cantilever is sitting in the groove of the record as its playing and checked all the way across the entire record side the cantilever should sit straight.
I also have an ar ta turntable that doesn t have any anti skate and works just fine.
Calibration record comes shrink wrapped in a 12 standard jacket.
Get it right and the stylus runs through your vinyl grooves like a good un.
Adjust anti skate until your tonearm remains in a stationary position.
Repeat procedure of putting tone arm in center of blank while the turntable is running.
In this video you will see different methods with their specific pros an.
Anti skate post by hobie1dog 24 nov 2018 17 53 this aspect of turntables always bothered me about getting it right as was one of the reasons why i just bought a linear tracking model.
Turntables with cartridges fixed to the tonearm don t need an adjustable anti skate feature because the cartridge cannot be changed and no counterweight is needed.
