Anti Skating Vinyl

Most turntables include this features.

Anti skating vinyl.

Having your anti skating set up correctly will. The feature prevents your tonearm from skating across your vinyl records and causing an unpleasant sound quality when you play the record. Get it right and the stylus runs through your vinyl grooves like a good un. This holds the cartridge and in the cartridge is the needle or stylus.

Turntable anti skating is a feature used in phonograph turntables to prevent skating of the tonearm. Record players that don t have an anti skate adjust device may have an internal mechanism to counteract the skating force. May 9 2014 october 9 2014 turntableshop. 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.

This is a video showing you what the anti skate does how it works and how to set it correctly on a turntable. The fact that a record player doesn t come with an anti skate knob doesn t imply that the turntable will. Anti skating on a turntable refers to a specific feature. 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.

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. Are you protecting your vinyl. Anti skate affects the tracking ability of your stylus how well the needle is able to move across your records. Most of our beloved tables have an pivoting arm on the top right side.