Peter that statement alone implies allot, without having both in your own system to compare you really can't confirm such.
I can't compare because I haven't had a WALKER in my system but have heard on numerous occasions and think it's a amazing table.
DEV, I respectfully disagree. I must not have written clearly enough. You seem to have understood that I have stated a preference for one table over the other. I have not. Nor did I state a preference for one system over another. The OP asks which table sounded more like real music. I stated which system I think sounds more like real music. I did not state which system I preferred. Either I have been unclear, or you are presuming something that I did not write.
Regarding the need to confirm something: I clearly can not confirm the sound of either table, either in my system or isolated from the components in the other systems. However, with an entire system, I do feel that I can make an assessment about how real it sounds. If I hear two unfamiliar systems, why would I not be able to simply decide that I think one sounds more like real music than the other? I don't need to compare either to my system to make such an evaluation. And I'm not commenting about any of the individual components in either system. I am simply making a judgement based on the sound of one
entire system versus another
entire system in two different contexts and comparing their sounds to my live reference at the BSO or some other classical music hall. I'm sorry, but I don't understand the criticism or conflict involved in this.
Furthermore, I understand that you own the TechDas and think it is an amazing table. Also, you have not heard the Walker in your own system, but you have heard the Walker on numerous occasions in other systems and think it is also an amazing table. Are you thus not saying that you think both are amazing tables? You have not said which table you think is better, and I understand why. You are not comparing them directly, but you are judging them separately against some reference and concluding that they are both "amazing" tables. Your opinion is perfectly justified.
If you have heard them enough to reach such a conclusion, can you not then also, if pressed, express an opinion about which
system sounds more like real music? I'm not suggesting that you can say that about the turntables, but you should be able to have an opinion about the sounds of the systems if you have heard them. And you should also be able to evaluate, in your own mind, whether or not either or both
system sounds like real music.
My comments have been restricted to the
systems in which I heard the two tables. You could rightly argue that I am off topic because I am not discussing the actual tables themselves. And that would be fine, but you also admit to not hearing the Walker in your own system and still you comment that "it's an amazing table". That is a lot more than I can do. I can't even go that far because I can't separate its sound from that of the rest of the system in which I heard it.