A new way of adjusting anti skate!


I was looking at the Wallyskater, a $250 or so contraption used to set anti skate. https://www.wallyanalog.com/wallyskater  It is reputedly the most accurate way to set anti skate. Talking about fiddly. 

The appropriate figure is 9 to 11 percent of VTF. So if you are tracking at 2 grams you want 0.2 grams of anti skate.
My Charisma tracks at 2.4 grams so I should set the anti skate for 0.24 grams..................................Bright light!.
I readjusted the Syrinx PU3 to zero so that it was floating horizontally. I set up a digital VTF gauge on it's side at the edge of the platter so that the finger lift would be in the cross hairs, activated the anti skate and was easily able to adjust it to 0.24 grams. I started at 0.18 grams and just added a little more. Whatever you measure the anti skate from it has to be at the same radius as the stylus. If you do not have a finger lift at the right location you can tack a toothpick to the head shell and measure from that. As long as you have the whole affair balanced at zero you will be fine. Added cost $0.00 as long as you have a digital VTF gauge. 

I would not buy stock in Wallyskater.
mijostyn

Showing 3 responses by ninetynine

Thank you. The method in my video is a starting point and most it is ok. I also measure distortion with Adjust+ on each channel and phase identity.

To measure the as-force out of the groove i test this

https://www.briefwaage.eu/shop/my-weigh-jim-federzugwaage-stiftwaage-5g.php

Hi Wally, i can measure with Adjust+ the harmonic distortion with a 1kHz tone (0dB - 11,3cm/s) Does it make sense to adjust antiskating for identical distortion on both sides? Does 11,3cm/s this corresponds to normal music level?