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RE: Your personal experience notwithstanding,...

First of all, my analogy of a stylus tip on a flat vinyl surface compared to the stylus in a groove was not meant to suggest they would produce the same skating force. However, logic would suggest that both cases would react the same to vertical tracking force. Therefore, if you discovered that skating force always increased when increasing tracking force on a flat vinyl surface, it would be logical to believe that skating force would react in a similar way to tracking force with the stylus in a groove.

Secondly, with a special type of cartridge designed to measure skating force, it can be shown that even though skating force from a flat vinyl surface is not exactly the same as skating force with the stylus in the groove, the two are more similar than they are different. Therefore, I believe that Frank Schroder and Peter Ledermann have developed a reasonable method for setting antiskating using a flat vinyl surface. Personally, I have never found the perfect method for setting antiskating and I now believe that Frank and Peter's method is as good as any and better than most. Even you state:

> I'm not saying that I have a better method though.

The method I use for setting antiskating is to follow the instructions from my tonearm owner's manual. I set antiskating on both of my tonearms by turning the antiskating dial to the same number as the tracking force setting. When I test this setting by Frank and Peter's method, it normally comes out very similar -- almost identical every time. Therefore, if you don't have a calibrated antiskating dial such as with VPI tonearms, I believe the method presented by Frank Schroder and Peter Ledermann is perhaps the best method to use.

Best regards,
John Elison


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