Vinyl Engine Anti Skate

Turntables with cartridges fixed to the tonearm don t need an adjustable anti skate feature because the cartridge cannot be changed and no counterweight is needed.

Vinyl engine anti skate.

Some use a line with a weight on the end. As well as a huge archive of owners manuals service manuals schematics and brochures we also have images articles and reviews for most modern and vintage record players and a friendly forum where visitors can share their knowledge. It only means that the anti skate force cannot be manually adjusted. Some thorens turntables use a magnet to control the a s.

The spinning of the record naturally puts a centripetal force on the stylus causing the tonearm to want to fly to the inside of the record. Anti skate works pretty much the same with all turntables that have it but not all a s is designed the same. How do you set the perfect anti skate force of your tonearm. Anti skate post by hobie1dog 24 nov 2018 17 53 this aspect of turntables always bothered me about getting it right as was one of the reasons why i just bought a linear tracking model.

It should be set as specified in the manual for your turntable and cartridge. In this video you will see different methods with their specific pros an. The fact that a record player doesn t come with an anti skate knob doesn t imply that the turntable will skate. This force can cause an imbalance in signal strength between the right and left channels as well as make groove skipping more likely.

First set the anti skate equal to the vertical tracking force vtf. Get it right and the stylus runs through your vinyl grooves like a good un. Vtf is adjusted with the counterweight on the end of the tonearm. I also have an ar ta turntable that doesn t have any anti skate and works just fine.

My dual uses a spring. The vinyl engine has all the information you need to get the best sound from your records all completely free of charge. Get it badly wrong and you risk having the stylus jumping around like a kid on a trampoline adding wear and tear on the grooves themselves.