I have now been using my Thorens TD-145 MKII for over 1.5+ years. I have taken great care in setting them up, levelling, VTA, azimuth, tracking force, tone arm weight, bearing lubrication anti-skating etc. etc. and even after best of my efforts found that the right channel to be a bit bright and slightly distorted than the left. Though the tone arm did not indicate any leaning to the front or the rear, this right channel brightness screwed up the listening of otherwise nice table. I had tried even zero anti-skating but there was only a slight improvement.
After doing some research have noticed that many turntable owners completely remove the anti-skating mechanism for this issue as they feel that anti-skating backward force push to stylus outward there by rubbing the grooves of the right channel more than required. This is particularly true about light weigh tone arm line mine (7gm) and high compliance cartridge like mine (ortofon OM-30). These properties cause the stylus to wobble in the groove if there is a mis-match in the anti-skating numbers. So earlier this month i gathered courage and dismantled the anti-skate from my Thorens and since then running without any anti-skate.
This removed all the squeaks and bright right channel and both both channels to similar tone and texture. Also they now sound very organic, liquid and holographic. I am not sure how this magnetic anti-skating actually work for my tonearm, but can say for sure that something was certainly wrong with that mechanism, because even with zero anti-skating the issue was not getting resolved.
Thanks for looking.
After doing some research have noticed that many turntable owners completely remove the anti-skating mechanism for this issue as they feel that anti-skating backward force push to stylus outward there by rubbing the grooves of the right channel more than required. This is particularly true about light weigh tone arm line mine (7gm) and high compliance cartridge like mine (ortofon OM-30). These properties cause the stylus to wobble in the groove if there is a mis-match in the anti-skating numbers. So earlier this month i gathered courage and dismantled the anti-skate from my Thorens and since then running without any anti-skate.
This removed all the squeaks and bright right channel and both both channels to similar tone and texture. Also they now sound very organic, liquid and holographic. I am not sure how this magnetic anti-skating actually work for my tonearm, but can say for sure that something was certainly wrong with that mechanism, because even with zero anti-skating the issue was not getting resolved.
Thanks for looking.