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== Antiskating (compensation) == Skating: lateral tracking force of a pivoted tonearm. The skating force is usually about 8 to 10% of TF. Antiskating (compensation) is necessecary to ensure a proper horizontal bias of the cartridge'S generator system. Antiskating influences sonics considerably: dynamics == Azimuth == vertical angle between cartridge stylus and record surface (front view). Azimuth is to be adjusted for symmetric crosstalk or for maximum size and stability of soundstaging. == Effective tonearm length == Distance stylus tip <-> tonerm pivot. == Offset Angle == Angle by which the cartridge is turned CCW in reference to the straight through stylus tip and tonearm pivot (top view). Offset angle and Overhang are used to minimize a tonearm's lateral tracking error. == Overhang == difference between effective tonearm length and distance platter spindle <-> tonearm pivot. Distance platter spindle <-> tonearm pivot always is less than effective tonearm length. == Skating == see antiskating. == TF == vertical Tracking Force of the phono cartridge's stylus. TF is influencing the vertical bias of the cartridge'S generator system. TF influences sonics considerably. == VTA == Vertical tracking angle: angle between the phono cartridge's stylus cantilever and the record surface (side view) VTA influences sonics considerably: focus, soundstaging, microdynamics, speech understandability, tonal plausibility. |