WALKER'S HIGH DEFINITION LINKS A WORK OF ART

By Michael Miguest


In this extremely subjective high-end audio hobby of ours, there are very few concepts music lovers can all agree on. One of those few in my opinion, is our speakers represent the final frontier between the music and our ears.


The audio signals from our sources travel through the circuits of our components and the cables that connect our components in our high-end audio systems. Music Lover's ultimate objective is to minimize signal degradation to present as true a source signal to the speakers as possible.


Subsequently, there exists an initial frontier between the source audio signals from our systems and our speaker's connections. That's right-at the binding posts of our speakers. Music lovers will go to great lengths to insure their source audio signal transmissions are as pure and unfettered as possible going to their speakers which theoretically should yield the most accurate and musical reproduction of the recorded event. 


However, passing these signals unobstructed by noise, RFI, EMI, and Distortion to the physical speakers is a problem that the majority of Music Lovers are unaware of and as a result, fail to experience the full performance potential of their High-End Audio systems. This review is for Walker Audio's High Definition Links. This is not an inexpensive "Tweak" but well worth the cost. Lloyd Walker's HDL's https://walkeraudio.com/shop/high-definition-links/ deal with this initial frontier by improving your speaker's ability to deliver these source audio signals minus the deleterious noises, rendering a more engaging tapestry of music experience. It's like a "Speaker Upgrade".


Tapestry is one of the oldest kinds of needlework and one which has always been popular every where. There are two distinct sorts of canvas in use for tapestry, called respectively, 'plain (single thread) canvas', and 'Penelope (double thread) canvas'. The latter is generally preferred, because it is easier to count the stitches upon it.


Stitches, worked upon two stuffs, must be drawn very tight, or they will look loose and untidy when the auxiliary fabric is taken away.


The stitches, which should completely hide the canvas, should all lean one way and the underneath ones always from left to right, as the letters in writing. These ideals are fundamental for the Art of Tapestry.


Lloyd Walker's High Definition Links filter very high frequency electronic noises (which are emitted from all electronics) and RFI from being transmitted to your speakers. They eliminate the unwanted noise from the signal path, while allowing the pure music signal to pass through unaffected, providing the listener with a more profound emotional connection with a heightened sense of being swept away to another place and time. 


For me, the music with the HDL's in place, is tighter and more focused. The pace, rhythm, attack, timing, dynamics, tonality, and transparency possess a greater fundamental realness. More music flows outside the width of your speakers which enhances your speaker's disappearance act. In addition, greater depth perception, longer musical decays, more bass articulation, greater musical layering, more harmonic texturing, a greater sense of a realistic scale of the performers/instruments and a further reduction of the noise floor are all weaved into a more dimensional and complete musical tapestry.


I want to avoid any ambiguity and categorically state that the Walker HDL's level of efficacy with respect to the final frontier is inextricably connected to the purity of the source signals your system delivers to your speakers. With that being said, the HDL's will insure those signals, will be passed on without compromise and thus enhance the performance of your speakers which will take the musical presentation you experience to a higher level.


Have you ever looked at the back of a handmade tapestry or a fine piece of needlework? When you look at the wrong side, with its knots and clumps of color and bits of thread running this way and that, you have no idea that you are holding a work of art in your hands. But turn it over and you see the design that comes together in a glorious tapestry.


Without Walker's HDL's, you are listening to your music on the wrong side. Try them and experience the musical tapestry of the recorded event come together as a sublime "Work of Art".
Highly Recommended!