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Help:Anti skate on Tonearm with no anti-skate

Hi Guys

I am having trouble with my right channel having distortion/mistracking. When i place my cartridge on a Cardas Test disk it shoots towards the center very quickly instead of very slowing. This points to a lack of antiskate on the outside of the tonearm(Right Channel).

The tone arm i am using is a 1990's Ortofon RMG309i Tonearm which has not antiskate settings. In the instruction manual it states it has built in antiskate bias.
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My question is how do i increase the antiskate because i have a feeling this is the cause of the distortion/mistracking on the right channel.I have checked the VTA, VTF and Azimuth and they all sound correct. My Cartridge is a Shindo Ortofon SPU.


Any help would be great.

Thanks


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leicachamp OP
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Thanks for all your advice. It seems to be a VTA problem. I am using a outrigger armboard, which unfortunately means my tonearm is higher than if it is flat mounted. I am getting a new armboard which allows me to drop the tonearm more to allow the bottom of my Spu to be parallel to the record.

I will post results later this week when new armboard arrives.
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