antiskate disc


this is not new info, but as I have struggled to adjust the antiskate on my REED 2G(not calibrated), I thought I would try the blank disc method, despite mixed reviews of this technique.  I have an ALNIC AMBER cartridge which has a FRITZ GYER S stylus....it is so fine that it immediately cuts its own groove in the vinyl blank disc, making subsequent passes impossible...frustrating!!

jw944ts

@cleeds 

A stylus imitates a cutting head. Why would it not try to cut a groove on a blank test disc?  Please read again carefully my reply to @jw944ts about how a stylus tracks a groove. Don’t suggest he is carving up his records…. “If true, it would render most LPs unplayable” Your words

“What is the size of your test study?” Your words to me. Please don’t make me laugh, admit you got a bit hot. Ask anyone with a Shure trackability obstacle course LP to have a look at their blank “anti-skate” test bands and come back to me.

Any neutrals out there wish to give cleeds a “pronouncement” with their findings to save him the bother?  It would greatly help increase “the sample size” of the “study”

+1 macg19  too.

the wally tool is something that one must take a serious look at. I have not used it nor do I own one. but people who used it to setup people TT say it is a very good tool to have.

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