Turntable arm wobbly? Setup advise

I don't know what to say about the wobble, but others have ditched anti-skate and like how it sounds. Have you seen this recent thread:

Remove your bias for better sound

Sounds like an off center spindle hole in that record. Try some other records. If it's not the record then you might have a compliance mismatch causing the arm to oscillate. If that is the case then moving the TT support and/or trying different materials under the TT can sometimes solve that problem. Is your TT on a suspended floor?

Liz is correct again..... get rid of the anti-skate. I dumped mine and the sound got better.

Hey Stringreen, I just posted a "Kudos to Pter Ledermman" OP about a week or two ago. If you get a chance pull it and take a look at what Peter told me.

For the benefit of others, I'll quickly mention that it was re-tip time for my Zephyr. It seemed just a tad early, so I asked Peter if he noticed whether there were any unusual wear patterns. He advised me that one side of the stylus was worn more than the other side, suggesting that I had an AS problem.

Like you, I also own the VPI Classic, an unstabilized uni-pivot. As most VPI owners know, VPI advises AGAINST using the mechanical AS device. And I followed that advice and the result was a prematurely worn stylus. And yes . . . I did put a little twist on the tonearm wire.

So there are two schools of thought out there: VPU -- no AS; Peter Ledermann -- use AS.

As a compromise, I am using the VPI AS device, but set it to the absolute minimum force. I'll report back in about 1000 hours to let you guys know how it works.

Oh . . . and btw, I can not hear any differemce in sound quality one way or the other.

Bifwynne..... when I dumped my A/S, the sound improved. If yours didn'd/doesn't, perhaps something is amiss with your setup. There definitely is an open-ness, and freedom without the A/S in my system.

It did seem better with other records. Unfortunately my phono amp made a loud noise and now is not playing sound from one channel and the other channel has a rushing noise coming out. Hopefully something amiss with my cartridge setup would not have caused this. The sound was pretty good before this happened so I assume that I had it close.

It's fairly easy to tell if the spindle hole is off center.
If the blank grooves in between tracks appear to move back
and forth as the record spins then it's off center. The
tonearm has to follow this movement and will appear to move
back and forth. If the blank grooves don't move back and
forth but your tonearm still wobbles then it is something
else.

I believe your tonearm is a unipivot and they will wobble a
little at first till they find equilibrium. If your TT setup
is on a suspended floor footfalls can cause the arm to
wobble for a little while as well.

Sorry to hear about your phono stage. Cartridge setup should
have nothing to do with why it malfunctioned.