Is my stylus miss-tracking?

Your antiskate is probably too low. Get the aforementioned blank record. The Lumineers Cleopatra is another disc with a blank side. You can also look through your collection for a disc with a long run out area. You can use the space between the grooves to measure drift. This will allow you to see what happens when you turn the knob one way or the other. When you reduce antiskate the tonearm will drift faster towards the spindle. Increase it and the drift will slow down or even reverse. The correct value is a moving target. You are looking for a rough average. Near the label the tonearm should drift slowly towards the label. The WallySkater is the best tool for adjusting antiskate but it is expensive. The correct value for an elliptical stylus is 10% of VTF, Fine LIne Styluses 11%. For most people measuring drift is the best way. The mistake that they make is adjusting the antiskate so that the tonearm does not drift at all. The will add too much antiskate. What is a slow drift? As slow as you can get it. The drift will always speed up as the arm goes towards the center of the record. Always be ready to catch the arm or raise the lifter. All the other stuff, level turntable, correct VTF, cartridge alignment I'll assume you have already checked. Never force anything. Use a light touch and just snug allen screws and adjustment. There is a tendency to over tighten things which is how you break them. 

I forgot to mention, once a record has been mistracked it may be damaged permanently so you have to use other records that are highly modulated to check.

@mijostyn 

@viridian 

@elliottbnewcombjr 

thank you for the ideas. Everyone else too. I will make sure everything is level, VTF, VTA, Azimuth, and antiskate are correct. If I can’t figure it out I’ll track out to my dealer. Appreciate all your thoughts! 

A final thought:

Perhaps the tracking force is too little, and the stylus is jumping about in the groove only at high frequencies with the incredible amount of rapid movement high frequencies have.

IF you set anti-skate, or have anti-skate active in any amount, other than zero, and then set the tracking force, that is incorrect, and the tracking force will not be accurate when playing.

Always reduce anti-skate to zero. Then set downward tracking force, then ’add’ anti-skate’ outward pull visually as described above.

If the cartridge has a range of tracking force, try the highest amount of that range, any difference?