Walker turntable

ALF

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I like Lloyd...

Mr Walker is a pioneer in our hobby and believes in continuous improvement; hence, the price increases over time. His brain has produced a wonderful retrofittable machine that appears to still sit among the SOTA turntable systems. It may have no peer as a VTA solution and the motor is designed to be driven with a stream of steady dependable energy.

Cheers!
ALF
 

PeterA

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I like Lloyd...

Mr Walker is a pioneer in our hobby and believes in continuous improvement; hence, the price increases over time. His brain has produced a wonderful retrofittable machine that appears to still sit among the SOTA turntable systems. It may have no peer as a VTA solution and the motor is designed to be driven with a stream of steady dependable energy.

Cheers!
ALF

Alf, could you elaborate about the VTA solution and power to the motor?
 

Gregadd

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Alf, could you elaborate about the VTA solution and power to the motor?

yeah because he was adjusting VTA on the fly when he was at RMAF 2010.
 

lordcloud

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It is interesting that Walker utilized both air suspension plus mass for his design. TechDAS does the same, but other high mass designs rely on mass alone. These are all belt drive. It is a very different approach to the DD and idler. The Walker is a true integrated system with arm and phono and cable. I don't see then coming up on the used market very often, and I wonder if Albert Porter's switch affected sales because he was quite vocal on Audiogon, as were the people invited to his Tuesday evening listening sessions.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the integrated rack also as part of the whole "system".

I'd heard that Lloyd wasn't too happy with Albert for making the switch, as some people started looking at the Walker differently, and I imagine it may have affected sales, to a degree.
 

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