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In Reply to: Is the Creek 5350SE a good match for the S3/5? posted by dnnaudio on April 22, 2007 at 01:49:08:
I think the Creek 5350 is an outstanding component. It does a beautiful job with my Quad ESL 63's. It's transparent and free of grain IF...and this is an important IF...
You must replace the standard u-bars with low capacitance interconnects.
It took me almost two years before I discovered this. I tried a wide range of interconnects and could never get the Creek to produce anything but highly congested, bass-anemic, very disappointing sound. Finally I read an Asylum post regarding capacitance in cables. I happened to have a set of Audioquest cables with are marketed as "low capacitance." Plugged 'em in and.. voila. I finally got the sound I'd been searching for.
I must say, during the two years I owned the unit before I discovered this, I had it back to the importer for service twice. Neither the service person or Roy Hall ever suggested the importance of the right type of cables. In fact Roy, the importer, urged me to go back to the u-bars.
I was very disappointed with Creek in this regard.
Apparently the capacitance is an isssue because or the passive nature of the Creek pre-amp. Anyway, things are fine now, but I will always be disappointed that Creek made no effort to inform its customers of this critically important issue.
- Mickey Bob
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Follow Ups
- Replace U-bars with Low cap interconnects - Mickey Bob 12:45:36 04/23/07 (1)
- Re: Replace U-bars with Low cap interconnects - Todd Krieger 04:04:34 04/25/07 (0)
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