Walker Audio Proscenium Turntable: Photo Essay

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

Rushton,Thanks !Very enjoyable!

This is a most informative thread. I have admired the Walker for a long time, and I have read nothing but praise for the tt. However, having lived in the far east for the past several years, I have heard quite differing opinion of the Walker here. One of the main problems here is high humidity. Hence many pump driven products, e.g. Air-tangent arm, Sota vacuum tt..etc have serious condensation problems. And the Walker is no different. Perhaps because of this it is a very diffcult tt to tweak correctly. This infomation comes from owners of Rockport and Verdier tts. So I assume they know what they are talking about. I am wondering if condensation is a problem for Walker owners in say, Florida?

Ledoux, interesting that you should raise this question, because I just had an update done to my air pump and one of the things Fred Law offered to add was a DRAIN to deal with just the issue you mention. Fred said that some of their far east customers did have problems with accumulated condensation over time. The air system apparently is effective at removing the moisture from the air, but in such high-humidity non-controlled environments the moisture removed was so great as to ultimately accumulate in one of the resonance tanks. The drain allows this accumulation to be removed periodically. In my home of Philadelphia, Fred suggested I only check this every 3-5 years. In the far east, I would think the check would have to be made more frequently!

FWIW, the several owners in Florida whom I've heard of all live in air conditioned homes, so the turntable is in a humidity controlled environment, unlike many homes in the far east. I would think the same issue would exist in Hawaii since most homes there are not air conditioned (unlike Florida) and the humidity is high. Perhaps some owners in these high humidity climates will comment.
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Afro18 (Marty), Lloyd's design philosophy and thinking about tweaks are outlined to some extend in some online articles, but you'll have to do some reading and piece it together. Here are some of the articles and interviews...

...Lloyd's own discussion at WalkerAudio.com of his philosophy
...and his approach to evaluating components

...Srajan Ebaen's article from 2002 at EnjoyTheMusic.com

...Mike Malinowski's interview at 6moons.com, and his review of the turntable

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"The magic is in the details."
..... Lloyd Walker