Has anyone else heard the Walker BD V?


I had my Walker updated 3 mos ago and am still in awe!
Detail resolution increased, backgrounds darker and now a room filling sound stage that is hard to believe.
The whole analog experience has been enhanced yet again.
How much better can Lloyd and Fred make this thing?!
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To the uninitiated, what are the updates to footers and record clamp (of all things) that could effect a "huge leap forward"? I have heard the BD turntable in someone else's system, and I certainly agree it is among the best, probably THE best, in my rather limited experience of megabuck designs. So, what makes this latest version so much better? Thanks.

Lloyd is among the most canny of all manufacturers in developing simple tweaks that really work.
And the one I heard, about 10 years ago in the home of my neighbor, with Lloyd himself presiding, cost around $40,000 at that time. That was before the carbon fiber stuff got added, I think. In the beginning, it was a highly tweaked Mapleknoll. The Mapleknoll roots are still easy to recognize, $95,000 later. This is not a bad thing; those were great turntables, but they lacked the precision of machining, quality of parts and assembly, that you see in the Walker table.