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Yes, but so what?

Posted by jsm (A) on June 12, 2007 at 12:56:22

In Reply to: Are older stereo cartridge predate antiskating device ? (nt) posted by thinker10 on June 12, 2007 at 06:19:09:

Skating forces are a result of geometry and frictional forces. I had a cartridge decades ago that was made before anti-skating compensation was normally available on TTs, but when I later got a TT with anti-skating force, it sounded noticeably better. You can't design the cartridge itself to avoid the need for anti-skating except to the extent that you can make it track with lower frictional drag force. If you could get the drag force to zero, you wouldn't need anti-skating. Decades ago Shure seemed to put a lot of weight (!) on reducing tracking forces, coming up with cartridges that tracked well at 0.75 g. Those had low skating forces, but then they had also had low tracking forces, so the ratio of the two was perhaps not a lot different.

Joe

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