This might minimise the anti-skating force but will not eliminate it entirely as Klaus's paper shows.Tangential arms like the Rega will generate some force that linear-tracking arms will not.
Wow, strange answers. To answer your question, yes this is completely normal in Rega arms as the magnets that provide the anti-skating force always have a slight attraction, no matter where the slider is set.
>>This might minimise the anti-skating force but will not eliminate it entirely as Klaus's paper shows.<<
Actually, by removing the anti-skate device from the Rega arm, you are eliminating anti-skating force from the arm entirely. Please do not confuse "anti-skating force" with "skating force". The skating force is created by the offset of the headshell coupled with the drag of the stylus in the groove. Anti-skating force in the Rega arm is created by a sliding magnet which pulls the headshell in the opposite direction of the skating force.
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