Linnmaster,
With the test records I have, my cartridge, a Lyra Titan, cannot track the highest levels of modulation without some distortion. The channel that distorts first, is the one that is getting shortchanged on lateral force. With this method, I get to about the same place as I do just listening to music the way Doug Deacon suggests. It is just that this method is easier, quicker and one does not develop the same anxiety over trying to hear differences in setting (usually the harder one tries, the less one is able to hear).
I suppose the ideal antiskating bias will change over different diameters of the record, but, there is no way to set the bias for all conditions. In the ballpark is good enough. The people at VPI do not think bias setting is important enough to add extra mechanism that can vibrate and add a different form of vibration and so they left antiskating mechanisms off of their arm.
With the test records I have, my cartridge, a Lyra Titan, cannot track the highest levels of modulation without some distortion. The channel that distorts first, is the one that is getting shortchanged on lateral force. With this method, I get to about the same place as I do just listening to music the way Doug Deacon suggests. It is just that this method is easier, quicker and one does not develop the same anxiety over trying to hear differences in setting (usually the harder one tries, the less one is able to hear).
I suppose the ideal antiskating bias will change over different diameters of the record, but, there is no way to set the bias for all conditions. In the ballpark is good enough. The people at VPI do not think bias setting is important enough to add extra mechanism that can vibrate and add a different form of vibration and so they left antiskating mechanisms off of their arm.