Anti Skating Vinyl

May 9 2014 october 9 2014 turntableshop.

Anti skating vinyl.

The only anti skate that these arms traditionally had took the form the signal cable leaving via the top of the arm and having a twist in it that exerted a tiny amount of anti skate force on the arm. The feature prevents your tonearm from skating across your vinyl records and causing an unpleasant sound quality when you play the record. Most of our beloved tables have an pivoting arm on the top right side. The fact that a record player doesn t come with an anti skate knob doesn t imply that the turntable will.

Anti skate affects the tracking ability of your stylus how well the needle is able to move across your records. Get it right and the stylus runs through your vinyl grooves like a good un. The device that prevents a turntable from skating is called anti skate. Most turntables include this features.

Turntable anti skating is a feature used in phonograph turntables to prevent skating of the tonearm. This holds the cartridge and in the cartridge is the needle or stylus. 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. Having your anti skating set up correctly will.

Due to the offset between the cartridge s axis which is approximately tangential to the disc and the tonearm s pivot the force applied through friction by the rotating disc to the cartridge tends to draw the tonearm toward the center of the record and distort the balance of the sound and. Anti skating on a turntable refers to a specific feature. Record players that don t have an anti skate adjust device may have an internal mechanism to counteract the skating force. The photo at the head of this piece shows a vpi arm with this system and the back of an sme arm that uses a counterweight anti skate.