Walker Audio Proscenium Turntable: Photo Essay

Albert, the Walker phono stage retails for $12,500 sans power cords. And it is excellent.

Tafka_steve, I've had the Walker reference phono in my system two times in the last four years, each time for a week or more. I am well aware of it's performance offering.

Pbb, correct that I ordered my Walker without gold and it was hell to get Lloyd to do it. Seems most of the "gold" is brass and the polishing that occurs when machining to correct tolerances proves all that is needed for an end product, except for a bit of clear coat.

With black, everything must be cleaned and primed and treated with black chrome or powder coat. Lloyd hated the additional steps and vowed to never build another one in all black. I agree with your assessment of how the gold looks and exactly why Lloyd and I battled over finish.

I had the same issue when AJ Conti built the Basis ONLY in gold and black and I fought to have the first totally black Basis Debut "gold."

Same again with Atma-Sphere. When I bought my MA-2 mono-blocks, they were gold faceplate ONLY and I went through hell to get them in all black, but succeeded there as well.

Odd too, as today Atma-Sphere and Basis are both stock (or offered) in black. Maybe someday that will be true for the Walker Proscenium.

Hi Rushton, I sure appreciate your thread .I found it extremely interesting... Mr.Porter,you are a fascinating man.

Thank you Stiltskin, wish you could convince my wife of that :^).

Thanks for the photo updates. It's nice to see clearly what you know you can't have. However, I'd never opt for a Walker analogue setup: He's such a proficient tweaker that any adjusting on your part would probably hurt the sound instead of help. I'm a tweaker, therefore I'll stick to the VPI's. However, I must applaud Mr. Walker for the great work he puts into making accurate sound reproducers.

As an aside, I wonder there's any web information on Mr. Walker's tweak preferences and why he likes them. For a person who is this 'picky' to share his discoveries would be a great thing (ok, someone get Lloyd a book agent)to read. I'd be interested on what he has discovered (or at least part) over the last few years.

Marty