2006

Editor's Choice Award

The Absolute Sound

“does undeniably lovely things for the sound of preamps, turntables, and digital sources that are plugged into it or into the circuit it is plugged into...works its magic without masking musicality..."

2005 

Blue Moon Award

6moons.com

"...the Velocitor excels at speed, dynamics, jump factor and release...increased focus,    Click to view larger photo.

clarity and soundstage size...a nearly ghostly experience of transparency alongside utterly unconstrained sonic expressions."                          

Editor's Choice Award

The Absolute Sound

“does undeniably lovely things for the sound of preamps, turntables, and digital sources that are plugged into it...works its magic without masking musicality..."

Brutus Award

Positive Feedback Online

"What transparency! What quickness! What delicacy!...the best line conditioner that I've heard."

2004

Brutus Award

Positive Feedback Online

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

Editor's Choice Award

The Absolute Sound

Editor's Choice Award

The Perfect Vision

2003 

Blue Moon Award

6moons.com

Recommended Components

The Absolute Sound

Shown  with optional Dedicated Stand - highly recommended. Optional power cord also available.

Stan Ricker, 

highly-regarded LP recording engineer, uses the Velocitor Power Line Enhancer in his mastering system.

"The difference that the “Big V” makes in the quietness of my Mastering System is astounding! I have all my Digital Gear powered thru it, and the “Digital Black” is truly now “Digital Quiet”!!!

With no signal going thru or coming from any of the digit-gear, I can crank the Monitor Gain all the way up and hear NO NOISE AT ALL!   Just like a totally Shorted Input-----AMAZING." Stan Ricker

Stan is well known for his keen hearing and attention to details that some others do not understand.  "The difference is in the details," says Stan.  He has cut many highly regarded LPs for Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Crystal Clear, Telarc, Delos, Reference Recordings, Windham Hill, Stereophile, and roughly a dozen other labels, including recent work for Analogue Productions and AcousTech Mastering. He is currently the Owner/Engineer Of SRM.

For more on Stan Ricker, go to:

Stan Ricker Mastering or

EnjoytheMusic Interview

Product Reviews

EnjoytheMusic.com 

Audiolics Anonymous Chapter 67 May 2005

by Bill Gaw   web link

"...there must be an infinite number of gauzy curtains being reproduced along with the music, because another couple has disappeared. The sound stage has opened up further deepened, and the individual musicians have taken on more body...

Video also is markedly improved. With my Electrohome 9500LC projector running at 1080P on a ten foot screen, the brightness and contrast controls can be set 4 notches lower for the same light output, the image is more three dimensional and saturated...For me, the Velocitor S is the way to go...one hell of a lot of musical and video enjoyment...money well spent."

6moons.com March 2005 - Blue Moon Award   

by Srajan Ebaen  web link 

"...the Velocitor excels at speed, dynamics, jump factor and release...increased focus, clarity and soundstage size...That's typical Walker - to improve something you were already perfectly happy with. "

"..It seemed as though the whole audio system had become a very transparent window. I could clearly see the colors and motions of every outside object. The sonic panorama was vividly portrayed with front-to-back layering, each musical object positively settled into its respective virtual space. This improvement in imaging was not of the freeze-framing type. Rather, better definition and separation came by way of superior revelation of musical textures as well as the elongation of harmonic decays. In the climax when the electrifying guitar is intersecting with hi-hats, drums and double bass, the wholeness of the musical scene and the coherence and cooperation between the different players was resolved and stable despite the lightning-fast transient energy jumping at me from everywhere...."

"Using the Velocitor S in my system was a nearly ghostly experience of transparency alongside utterly unconstrained sonic expressions." 

Positive Feedback Online Issue 15 Sept./Oct. 2004

by David W. Robinson   web link

"My first impression of the Velocitor left me so startled that I was truly bemused. It took me a while to realize what a significant step forward from my old line conditioner the Velocitor was; don't be surprised if you experience the same sense of audio vertigo the first time that you put the Velocitor into your system...

Customer Comments

Email September 2006

"You said the upgrade from "S" to "ST" status would make a bigger difference...but I wasn't prepared for the degree of improvement. The music is now smoother and yet more detailed, as if a scrim of haze has been removed without adding many extraneous coloration. I'm surprised the upgrade hasn't received more attention in the press or on the internet.

Before, I thought the Velocitor was competitive with the best line conditioners I've heard/owned....Now I think your newest Velocitor is the best I've heard. ..." C

Email May 2006

"...to say that Velocitor is better (than the Hydra) is a gross understatement...Only after using Velocitor I realized how much distortion was passed to my ears in the past. There is unbelievable sense of air, transparency and delicacy. There is new detail I never heard before. Simply amazing!" SV

Email April 2006

"...The Velocitor/Extreme SST/Silent Source Signature combination has easily beat out every PC/conditioner combination I have previously tried..."  EM

Email October 2004

"That Velocitor appears to be hands-down the hugest bang for the buck of any change to my system to date.  And it's not on pucks or maple yet!"   TL

Audio Asylum Posting June 2004

by timmyt

"I've had the Walker Velocitor, Audio Magic Stealth and BPT 3.5 Signature in my system. The Velocitor was easily the best."

Audio Asylum Posting

January 2003

by Norm

"I have the Velocitor and find it truly exceptional. Voices and brass are now reproduced better than I have ever experienced. It is a must to get the maple base to put the unit on." 

Bound for Sound 

November 2003 by Martin DeWulf

"Over the years I’ve used a number of parallel units. Coming to mind are units from AudioPrism (Quiet Lines), Marigo, TG Audio, VansEvers and Quantum. On hand presently is the finest parallel device I’ve ever heard, that being the Lloyd Walker Velocitor..."

EnjoyTheMusic.com May 2003  web link

Audiolics Anonymous Chapter 44  

by Bill Gaw

"....The major change is an inky black lack of audio noises all of the time...With six-channel SACD's, when the recording starts one goes from dead silence to a sudden uncanny feeling that one has been transported to the venue...transients are more natural and quick...individual instruments become more three dimensional and life-like... one can hear the shape of the piano and its position. I have never heard that before on my system. ..  

I have found that it makes the biggest difference in my digital reproduction... For those videophiles among us, the units also worked superbly at cleaning up my video signal... DVD's take on an almost film-like three-dimensional quality with very vivid colors, and high definition from DirecTV is stunning...  

So is this unit at $533 per outlet better than the combination of the Sound Application CF-X12 and the Quantum Products Symphony Pro combination at $399 per outlet, and is any AC line treatment worth that much? Unhappily for my bank account, yes... at least to me. Did I purchase the two units sent me? Yes. Did I buy another one? You betcha!!"  

6moons.com March 2003 - Blue Moon Award   

by Srajan Ebaen  web link

"...Greater acuteness of focus to enhance the illusion of physical presence.....

Much to its credit, the Velocitor didn't add a gram of mass to the Furutech's already well-endowed bass. Rather, its quicker transient trigger simply made the bass more intelligible and articulate, rising faster and thus seemingly endowed with more impact...

terms like 'elegant', 'smooth', 'sonorous', 'velvety', 'majestic' and 'oceanic' chummed up to the pen...The Walker also created a sense of no-ceiling expanse...by letting sounds rise upward and exhale...this Veloci(rap)tor rules! "