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A community member
Nov 7, 2017
This is absolute rubbish: “The aluminum die-cast platter features an anti-skating design.” Anti-skating is a function of the tone arm. A tone arm will tend to be pulled toward the center of the platter due to rotational forces or rather “skate” towards the center due to a rotating platter. It is counteracted by applying an opposite force on the tone arm that is referred to as “anti-skating.” It it usually applied by either a spring or a tiny adjustable counterbalance usually equal to the cartridge manufacturer’s recommended tracking force. The platter can only contribute to “skating” by definition. It cannot reduce it without applying a countervailing force directly to the tone arm which is something that the platter cannot do.
Motorrad
2898
Dec 3, 2017
Funny. Read that too and realized that some intern had clearly conflated bullet-point items. Thanks for letting everyone know that you know how anti-skate works.
A community member
Jul 14, 2018
MotorradYou‘re welcome, but was it necessary to insult me? I wasn’t posting to aggrandize myself, I was posting to clarify what the actual function and effect of anti-skating is. I hope others found that information useful. And maybe Massdrop would be more judicious in their copy writing. And since a little more than two handfuls of people did endorse my comment, I trust that it was useful for its intended purpose/audience. I participate here to raise the level of discussion and information, not to degrade it.
Motorrad
2898
Jul 14, 2018
Oh my... I guess if one were particularly sensitive and overly defensive, that could be seen as an insult.
A community member
Jul 16, 2018
MotorradAnd you did it again. I don’t see how your snark could be taken any other way. You must be proud of yourself. “Thanks for letting everyone know that you know how anti-skate works.” So I’m to believe the you were really expressing gratitude? I’ve been around long enough to recognize a back-handed compliment. One doesn’t have to be thin skinned to discern insincerity. Context.
Motorrad
2898
Jul 16, 2018
"I’ve been around long enough to recognize a back-handed compliment. " And 'snark' too, apparently...can you recognize the tilting point where it becomes trolling?
"One doesn’t have to be thin skinned to discern insincerity. Context." -However, if one does become so bothered and defensive, one's skin is very likely to be - as you say - thin. Reaction.
Anyway, your proper initial response should have been "Thanks for letting us know that you know what 'conflation' is"...or something to that effect. That would have shut my snarky, ungrateful ass right up. Grrrrr-atitude.
A community member
Jul 16, 2018
MotorradI’m over it. I generally don’t respond to snark with snark. Why feed the beast? Unless I unleashed it first. Seems like we’re talking past each other. My initial comment was simply to help inform people about what anti-skating is and to therefore probably take Massdrop copy with a grain of salt. Maybe I over-reacted, maybe I didn’t. Maybe you were snarky, maybe you weren’t. Either way, I’ve said my peace and I was trying to be helpful to anyone who might have found it useful. Do with it what you will. Again, I’m over it. Hope you get where I was coming from on this. If you had your tongue planted firmly in your cheek and I didn’t get that, I’d only say that tone is hard to convey in text. Particularly when you don’t know the person you’re communicating with. Trust me, I’ve unintentionally started lots of arguments in text messages simply because my tone was misunderstood, by a FRIEND even. Had a friend of mine said what you said verbatim, I probably would have had a laugh about it. Cheers.
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