Just watching this now. FWIW I agree with him on anti-skating 100%! I really dislike audiophile test records and would never dream of using one to set tracking and anti-skate. They all make the error of setting for a worst case scenario that in reality only exists on test records, not at all in the real world. The direct equivalent would be fitting snow-chains to your car tyres all year round despite it only snowing lightly maybe two days a year. It basically screws up tracking on everything else as you end up tracking too heavy and with the stylus weighing far more on the outer groove-wall.
The key thing to grasp is anti-skate is a variable, not a constant, so setting it for the worst possible case is a very bad compromise. Far better to set it at the top of the bell-curve of most typical groove modulation. Set to the average it is right far, far more of the time than to either extreme.
I remember the first time I set a deck up using HFS69 (still got a copy). It sounded dreadful, just leaden and dead in the water. I’ve since tried with the HiFi News record and that is just as bad IMO. These days I just use my ears and almost always end up just a smidge over the recommended/median VTF value with regards and about 2/3rds that value of anti-skate.
FWIW I often use Steely Dan’s Gaucho as it is pretty typical amplitude and has very wide panning on drum kit metalwork, background vocals etc, so easy to tell if one side is sounding less dynamic and free than the other (one of the tracks even has the lyric line “skate a little lower now”, which is right about half the time!). Beyond that some good mono jazz. I end up tweaking it a little over a few weeks with a new cartridge until I’m fully happy.
PS I disagree with him about stylus cleaning and have 40 years of great results with my AT637 vibrating cleaner. That is one audio product that if it broke tomorrow I’d pay pretty much any price to replace it!