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What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline?

I have seen turntables from Project, Music Hall, and a few other brands that still incorporate a small barrel weight attached to short fishline string which is stretched across a hooking loop to set ANTI-SKATING. It seems to be an artifact from the 1960's and 1970's tonearm design. It is also easy to lose or break 

My question is how accurate is that "device" compared to magnetic anti-skating employed by many turntable manufacturers   Thank you

sunnyjim

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Anti-skate is always an approximation. The weighted string method can be quite good, though. The string is fishing line so its unlikely to break, and once on the arm, you're not going to loose it. 


I would not let method of applying anti-skate determine a choice of arms.
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