Without a doubt, anti-skating needs to be confidently correct
for your vinyl wear, your stylus wear, your imaging/listening. Easy arm height adjustment is also important if you use different cartridges like some of us do.
I have had excellent personal experience with
Acos Lustre GST-801, (smoothest and easiest arm height, unique magnetics)
Micro-Seiki 505S and SL (S for silver, L for the long version)(easy arm height)
Technics EPA-B500 with alternate arm wands (easy arm height)
NewArt Vinyl Blackbird 12.5" 5 pin din (not easy arm height, set screws, but very precise using built-in micronometer), (fixed cartridge, not removable headshell)
SME 3009/II (not easy arm height, allen head set screws)
I would either move to a TT with 2 arms (especially if into Jazz with a ton of Mono LPs), 1 long, 1 short, or 1 arm with removable headshell to allow you to enjoy a small collection of specialists, as well as play your friend’s cartridges there.
The way I actually see it happen and refine my adjustment is by using the blank side of this protractor LP.
Hudson HiFi Alignment/Anti-Skate LP $16.
Anti-Skate to Zero
Set Tracking Pressure
Spin Platter by hand, see it skate inwards naturally.
Adjust slowly, watch it slowly correct, then too much it skates out. Find a setting where it floats, if anything slightly in, not slightly out.
I routinely re-check tracking pressure and re-set anti-skate every few weeks.
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The fact that re-tippers confirm MOST stylus tips are un-evenly worn PROVES that the dials, even sophisticated ones cannot be relied upon, see anti-skate happen/correct with the blank side method.