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In Reply to: Many Empire arms have no provision for anti-skate posted by Dave Pogue on August 24, 2016 at 04:53:53:
"Stanton 881 cart mounted on it would sail through all four levels of those "torture tracks" on the HiFi News test record"
Stanton cartridges in the 881/981/CS100 family have excellent tracking ability so I'm not surprised at all!
The effects of skating force on R-ch buzzing with the test tracks would tend to be more obvious when the tracking ability of a cartridge was less capable (or the VTF was set too low) such that the tip was losing contact with the R-ch wall for the given amplitude of the test signal. The 881 should be able to clear 100um at 1.25g which is roughly what the +18dB tone is equivalent to (~107um).
At the recommended VTF of 1g or less, the actual magnitude of skating force to be compensated is comparatively small so you could easily get away without AS if you weren't observing any R-ch buzzing. However, the skating force would still be causing a deflection of the cantilever away from the mean central position.
If you had a lesser cartridge that was struggling to achieve 60um or 70um (+14dB approx. = 68um on the HFNRR test disc) at the same low VTF, you would certainly have been hearing evidence of buzzing in the R-ch due to the lack of AS at >+15dB.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
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