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- The Prelude Record Cleaning System can be used with any vacuum record cleaning machine
- With Prelude, you will experience a cleaner, more transparent soundstage, with better harmonics and improved dynamics from top to bottom. You will hear things you've never heard, even on LPs you've listened to countless times before
- There are more nuances, more life, and more music in the recording than you know, and Prelude will reveal them to you while establishing a more natural space for the performers to exist within
- Cleaning records is a vital step in getting the best sound reproduction quality possible from a vinyl LP
- That is why we are pleased to offer Prelude to audiophiles who know and appreciate that analog is still the pinnacle of recorded playback and who want to maximize their listening experience
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Rave Reviews for the Prelude Record Cleaning System (formerly Walker Audio Prelude System)
"Jonathan Valin and other folks have repeatedly witnessed the 'before and after results of applying the Walker Prelude to discs - even discs that have just been cleaned by top-rank automated record cleaning machines - can attest that the difference in resolution with the Walker fluids is substantial - and disconcerting. The sound of a Walker-cleaned disc is to the sound of a machine-cleaned disc as the sound of papercone drivers is to the sound of electrostats."
-The Absolute Sound, January 2014
"The Prelude Record Cleaning System is a revolutionary product, the most advanced LP wash I've come across. Designed to disclose the hidden layers buried deep within the grooves, it dredges up vast quantities of detail. Prelude-enhanced LPs sound dramatically open, allowing you to step into the performance space...The one-two punch of Prelude wash followed by the Talisman delivers a knockout."
- Marchall Nack, Positive Feedback Online, Issue 30, March 2007
"The final proof of its effectiveness was on my cartridge stylus. I normally clean the needle after every side with a Zerodust Stylus Cleaner, but decided to play several sides to see if there would be a build-up of gunk on the needle. Interestingly, even under a jeweler's eyepiece, there was absolutely no junk even after 10 sides. So the solution is removing most if not all of the contaminants from the record grooves... That was enough for me. While my previous cleaning fluids did an excellent job of getting rid of grease and grime and surface noise, this three-step process certainly has improved on their efficacy. Using an operating microscope I have in my office, one can actually see the difference in the cleanliness of the grooves compared to records treated with my other solutions. Wish I could take a picture of the microscopy to actually show you the difference... Prelude is now my cleaning fluid of choice."
- Bill Gaw, EnjoytheMusic AA May 2007
"The result was an astonishing gain of transparency, an ability of the Proscenium Black Diamond turntable to seem to reach more deeply into the grooves. Air! Depth! Roundness! Enhanced presence! Greater dynamics (no surprise …lower noise floor plus improved high frequencies automatically mean more slammo range). The harmonic structure on all LPs seems more coherent, more integrated, more right. The apparent increase in resolution on a turntable that I know very well was…well, almost perplexing. To listen to an album—then clean and treat it—and then listen again within 4-5 minutes and realize that it was a fundamentally different audio experience—was almost enough to give me vertigo. That lasts for a few seconds …then you start smiling like a bloody idiot who's been hit with a magical mystery tour."
- David W. Robinson, Positive Feedback ISSUE 31, May/June 2007