Creek OBH 9 MC...is it good?


Anyone used this phono?. Can you pls. describe the performance and comparable brand.

TQ
hi5

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I heard of it before and in some review they were comparing it with Rotel RHQ 10 and it is superior than P-75. How about Gram Amp 2se?
http://202.186.86.35/audio/story.asp?file=/2004/8/19/audiofile/19dyna

Check out this review. RHQ 10 is superior in MC mode than P-75.

cheers
I don't have Rotel RHQ-10 but I've listen to my friend's setup. He uses Xlo power cord (entire system), vdh db102mkIII i/c and Kimber 8TC spk cable.

According to him the creek is much more transparent. musical and detail than P-75. I don't know....got to find out.


The paragraph that I mentioned, forget PE mode..it just like subsonic mode

Moving on to the standard MC setting with a Benz Micro L0.4 on a Roksan Xerxes-RB300, the result was similar to that heard with MM, though comparison showed the Dyna’s advantage in low-level subtle detail retrieval over the Rotel was reduced (the RHQ-10 is more transparent through its MC setting than MM).

However, I felt that the P-75’s sound in both standard modes was slightly short on body. The RHQ-10 produced richer, more fully fleshed out sonic images which, while softer-edged and less detailed, had a truer-to-life density – for example, Luka Bloom’s voice on Fertile Rock appeared that much more like emanating from a real human head, and I felt I heard more of the acoustic guitar’s body’s characteristics. The Rotel also had the edge when it came to sound stage depth and sounding big and bold, if a little fruitier in the lower ranges. Heavy hitting drum work (a swing big band playing Sing Sing Sing) had gutsier thwacks to them.