Does removing anti-skating really improve sound?

Dear @mijostyn : """  Cartridges in pivoted tonearms track much better and have much lower distortion with anti skating set correctly.  "

Yes but the problem word in that statement is: " correctly " and till today exist no single method/mechanism to set up " correctly ". 

The best approach to comes in that link on the Sony PUA 237 tonearm. It's very interesting to read not only its manual but the link there " bias compensation " wide explanation. I said the best approach but not correctly/perfect.

Using test records is not any science and can't really helps. Why? because the AS testing record modulations are recorded at an specific space in the surface of the LP and because the S vector changes at each single grooves modultions.

Set up of AS maybe is the more complicated and almost imposible to do it " correctly ". 

R. 

Dear @mijostyn : @larryi  posted a wide and simple explanation why the AS is need it always in a pivoted tonearm design and we have to add that not only what larry posted is important but the stylus shape tip and cartridge owns tracking abilities too.

I can remmeber that Audio Technica vintage tonearms came with a weigth where we can move it for each kind of stylus shape: conical, ellipthical and LC.

The best approach for a perfect anti-skate mechanism is this one in the Sony tonearm I own but not mounted at this time:

https://www.vinylengine.com/library/sony/pua-237.shtml   


Btw, listening a pivot tonearm with out AS looking for better quality level performance makes no-sense at all because almost at no single LP recoded grooves the cantilever will stays straigth. At groove modulations microscopic level the friction forces are really really high and the cartridge cantilever always is non-starigth even if trhough our eyes we looks straigth. Important issue is not how it looks at sigth but how true looks at microscopic level.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.