AWARDS

Walker Audio products have received a number of prestigious awards and honors  from the industry's leading reviewers. You will find the major awards for the past several years listed below.

To see awards by product, go to each product's main page 

and click on the link to the reviews and customer comments page.

Walker Audio Wins Nine Awards in 2007

2007

PFO Brutus Awards      

Prelude Record Cleaning Kit

"...one of those relatively rare audio products that really produce moments of real revelation...simply the best I've ever heard...'Ye Olde Editor's Highest Recommendation."

Ultra Vivid SACD/DVD/CD Enhancer

"..If you are especially interested in detail and dynamics, Vivid should be on your audio accessories shelf, without doubt!...an indispensable aid to better performance....'Ye Olde Editor's Highest Recommendation."

Silent Source Signature Speaker Cables

"...have an ease, detail without pain and an unassuming naturalness that is very appealing...You can spend a lot of money on speaker cables and not get what I'm hearing with the Silent Source Signatures...Highly Recommended."

Walker Audio is a distributor for Silent Source.

Three Walker Audio products previously awarded the Brutus honor remained undefeated in 

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Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable

"There were no attempts to de-throne the Walker PBD system from the top o' my turntable heap this year....We'll see is anyone is courageous enough to take up the challenge in 2008."

Walker Reference Phono Amp (Solid State)

"...continues its reign as king of that particular mountain."

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer (Line Conditioner)

"...continues to rule its product roost undisturbed."

   2007

EDITORS CHOICE AWARDS

Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable

Also 2007 TAS Golden Ear Award

"...a work of audio art...looks fantastic...sound fantastic, too" JV

Prologue Equipment Rack

"...beautifully made..."

Prelude Record Cleaning System

"...really does reveal details that have gone unheard..."

Valid Points Resonance Control

"...sensationally effective..."

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer

2007

ENJOY THE MUSIC BLUE NOTE AWARD

Prelude Record Cleaning System

"By far the best record cleaning solution this reviewer has tried...  

2006

PFO Brutus Awards

Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable

"...astonishing. Transparency! Lightning-like responsiveness to dynamics! A noise floor that vanishes to nothingness! Richness!...truly supreme in my book...This is the best of the best. Period."

Walker Reference Phono Amp - Second Edition

"...a true marvel of of take-it-to-the-edge audio craftsmanship...In conjunction with the new Proscenium Black Diamond turntable, 

Prologue Amp Stands

"...absolutely indispensable to me. The sonic qualities that set (them) apart are the detail, quickness, and sense of spaciousness that they impart to components placed on them..."

Talisman Magnetic Treatment for LPs/ CDs/DVDs

Prelude Record Cleaning System

"...absolutely the best thing I've ever heard for cleaning LPs, bar none!..runs rings around all previous products I've heard...this miraculous product can transform your vinyl listening experience. Run, do not walk... and jump on this!"     

Silent Source Cables

Walker Audio is proud to be a distributor for Silent Source cables. 

"...very impressed with their combination of exceptional performance, flexibility and sonic performance...bass response somewhat better than (competitor) without losing the sense of spaciousness and detail. The time has come to recognize the good folks at Silent Source..."

2005 

6Moons.com Blue Moon Award

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer S+

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2005

The Absolute Sound 

Editor’s Choice Awards

Selected by writers and editors to be the “best of the best”.  

Each of these products has won an Editor’s Choice Award for a second year in a row. 

Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable

“...a contemporary work of art that not only sounds fantastic but looks fantastic too...a snap to adjust and use, the Walker brings out the best in any LP....The best source component JV has heard – and the most reliable. In four years of daily play, the Walker has had exactly zero problems. None, nada, zip. All is does is make music.”

Prologue Equipment Rack

“beautifully made...the Walker rack kills vibration without killing the life of the music.”

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer

“does undeniably lovely things for the sound of preamps, turntables, and digital sources that are plugged into it...

works its magic without masking musicality..."

Valid Points Resonance Control System

“...sensationally effective...”

2005 

Positive Feedback Online 

Brutus and Gizmo Awards 

Selected by editors and staff to be "the best and brightest"

Seven of these products has won a Brutus Award for a second year in a row. 

Brutus Awards....

This year in addition to a number of individual products receiving awards, PFO has created a collective Brutus Award for the Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable System to honor the synergy, as well as the individual updates. Products receiving awards, either individually or as part of the system, are:

Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable

“...amazing...in tandem with the rest of the Walker Audio Proscenium system, this is the finest LP playback I've known."

Walker Reference Phono Amp – Second Edition

“Better than it was before – quieter, even more detail, and better dynamics...the best phono amp that I can ever remember hearing...”    

Walker Ultimate Motor Controller

“...adds a clarity and “blackness” to the Proscenium playback that it did not have before...”

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer

“...What transparency! What quickness! What delicacy!...the best line conditioner that I’ve heard.”

Walker Prologue Rack and Amp Stands

“...impart a sense of tight, clean, quick response... I wouldn’t want to listen ...without these stands...”

Valid Points Resonance Control System

“...indispensable.”

E-SST – Super Silver Treatment Contact Enhancer 

“...if you haven’t tried (it), you don’t know what your CURRENT system can do. Don’t upgrade components until you try this product first –it’s that good.”

Reference High Definition Links

"...rendering more detail in higher frequencies and making the enhanced resolution smoother at the same time....Spooky good...”

Ultra Vivid Picture and Sound Enhancer

“...I haven’t found an SACD or DVD that hasn’t been improved by applying Ultra Vivid...the best optical enhancer that I’ve found so far.”

Gizmo Award...

For an unprecedented second year in a row, 

the Gizmo has been awarded to Walker Audio partners Lloyd Walker and Fred Law. 

  Click to view larger photo.

Lloyd Walker (left) and Fred Law with the 

ten Brutus awards and the Gizmo award for 2004. 

Photograph courtesy of David W. Robinson 

and Positive Feedback Online (http:\\www.positive-feedback.com\)

Says David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of PFO,

“Walker Audio has spent most of the past two years messing with my mind and hearing – to my great benefit,  I should add mightily impressing me with the creativity and excellence of its products, tweakery, modifications and constant audio/video innovations...keep the brilliant work coming!”

As for giving the award to the same persons twice, David says, “Lloyd and Fred were so active and productive with their updates and improvements that I finally concluded it made no sense to give the Gizmo to someone else, just because they were someone else. Lloyd and Fred earned the Gizmo, so I broke with convention and gave it to them two years in a row.”

2004

The Absolute Sound 

Editor’s Choice Awards

TAS editors pick the top performers in every product category at a variety of price levels.  From the hundreds of products reviewed in The Absolute Sound, the Editor's Choice list reflects products the editors would buy for themselves. On the list for 2004 are:

Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable 

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer

Valid Points Resonance Control Kit

Prologue Equipment Rack & Amp Stands                             Click to view larger photo.

For more on this, see the October/November 2004 issue of The Absolute Sound.

2004

Positive Feedback Online 

Brutus and Gizmo Awards 

The Brutus Awards are given to recognize "the best and brightest" products.  

Chosen to receive this honor are seven products by Walker Audio, plus two products that we carry, but do not make ourselves.  Our SST- Super Silver Treatment received awards from both David Robinson and Dave Clark....the first double Brutus ever!

For the full report, go to:  http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/brutus04dr.htm

Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable

"...vinyl playback at a stratospheric level..."

Walker Ultimate Motor Controller

"...nothing less than stellar..."

Walker Reference Phono Amplifier Second Edition

"...sounds like a serious slice of heaven..."

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer

"...I've never heard better..."

Valid Points 

  SST - Super Silver Treatment

  "...you aren't really hearing what your system can do until you use it..."

  Vivid CD/SACD/DVD Enhancer

  "...a revelation for SACDs and DVDs..."

  Also honored are two brands we carry:

  Magic Diamond Cartridge

  "...simply superb...unquestionably the best..."

  Omega Mikro Cables

  "...edge of the world performance..."

Other 2004 Awards

The Perfect Vision Editor's Choice: Velocitor Power Line Enhancer & Valid Points Resonance Control Kit

6Moons.com Blue Moon Award: SST - Super Silver Treatment Contact Enhancer

Stereo Times Publisher's Choice Award: SST - Super Silver Treatment Contact Enhancer & Vivid CD/DVD Enhancer

2003

6Moons.com Blue Moon Award

Velocitor Power Line Enhancer