Thanks for your report, Perditty. And congratulations on getting your new arm installed. Based on hearing the new arm in Lloyd's system, with which I've been very familar in recent years, this upgrade is one I will make. The Walker Audio turntable is a superb device, but the new Black Diamond tonearm has improved it in ways I'd not thought possible given how good the turntable already was.
The sonic imporvements I hear with the new arm: even deeper, tighter and more articulate bass response (and the original was superb), even more resolving through the mid-range (hard to imagine it could be so), and the top end sounds subtly more extended and open. I notice an overall improvement in clarity, transparency and resolution of leading edge transients, but without any unnatural harshness or etching. To my ear, the original is exceptional among turntables; the new arm just moves the already impossibly good performance of the original up one more notch.
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The sonic imporvements I hear with the new arm: even deeper, tighter and more articulate bass response (and the original was superb), even more resolving through the mid-range (hard to imagine it could be so), and the top end sounds subtly more extended and open. I notice an overall improvement in clarity, transparency and resolution of leading edge transients, but without any unnatural harshness or etching. To my ear, the original is exceptional among turntables; the new arm just moves the already impossibly good performance of the original up one more notch.
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