Whilst not having tried/heard the Creek unit...and not wanting to start a flame war...I'd take exception to the view that passive is the only "high fidelity option".
You've simply got to consider the tens (if not hundreds) of active devices that the signal has already passed through in the studio(s) before it gets to CD... Life just ain't that simple IMHO. A good active pre (of which there are many) will NOT degrade the signal in a significant way compared to what has already happened to the signals on their way from microphone to your living room... Each to their own. I've tried passive pre-amps (but not the transformer types) and always been very disappointed by their dynamic-sapping sound. This was with several $20k CD players and $30k+ of active back end. I haven't tried them with an SB. This is just my personal observation. I really (REALLY) wanted them to sound good because at the time they would have saved me a lot of money. In the end my wife said "anything that makes Gaucho sound boring has got to go" - at which point I had to concede defeat! -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25614 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
