Mike - Harry Weisfeld's position on anti-skating is not that it's unnecessary, but rather that the a/s force which is inherent to his unipivot tonearm's cable loop sounds better than that which could be applied via an additional mechanical device. Due to customer demand VPI now includes a pivoting weight mechanism which can be used to provide an adjustable a/s force, but he recommends against using it to achieve the best performance with his arm design. He does agree with your statement that too much a/s is worse than not enough.
Many analog devotees overcompensate their a/s setting by using a blank (grooveless) record and adjust it so that the arm is stable and doesn't drift toward the center of the record. This will actually set the a/s too high, since the skating force that the arm sees is different when the stylus is actually in a record's groove. If you use a blank record to set a/s, it is more accurately adjusted when the arm slowly drifts toward the record's center.
