You're welcome to your opinion but having done a lot of reading and research on the topic, and having a cart with a 0.2g tolerance I like to know the actual weight at the playing surface. I have experimented and there is a difference - try it.
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I've always set tracking force with scales that have a low platform ie: as close to the level of a record as possible - kind of makes sense in my little head.
I too have been lead to believe that weight changes with height and so on......
Yes it does, but the change is very small. For example with a 9" arm, if the weighing platform is 6mm above the record surface, the error involved is 0.04%. So if the measured force is say 2g, the actual force will be 2.0008g. That is an error of 0.8mg. I doubt even the best stylus force gauges have an accuracy of better than 0.005g (5mg).
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