Creek 5350 brochure

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INTEGRATED AMPLIFIERS

ENJOY SI IIERIOR SOUND
QUALITY AND FACILITIES
OFFERED ONLY BY MUCH
HIGHER PRICED PRODUCTS

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tradition, the design and style of its

new 5350 Integrated Amplifier is now
definitely Hi-End, Creeks electronic
design skill was always partially disguised
by having to use less expensive casework
and critical components, to meet very
tight UK manufacturing budgets, It is
now popular for budget Hi-Fi to be made
offshore, however, Creek believe that
high quality British built products are still
in vogue around the world, but need to
be priced accordingly. Therefore, they
continue to manufacture in the UK but,
to balance their designs, have now
housed their excellent circuitry in larger
and more stylish casework.

Built in an aluminium case, with a
machined solid aluminium front panel
the 5350 provides superior sound quali-
ty, look and feel.

The 5350 is constructed in a modu-

In a departure from a 20 year Creek

lar way, with a separate power amp, pre-
amp and remote volume control circuit
boards, connected with computer grade
flat cables, plugs and sockets, The 5350
and SE both are supplied with a passive
pre-amp circuit, providing no additional
gain to the source signal Although not
strictly necessary, it can be configured
with an active pre-amp, if required, by
plugging-in the optional 53LINE circuit
board with 6dBs of gain. An optional
MM or MC Phono pre-amp can also be
plugged-in to further increase the 5350's
flexibility.

The Remote control circuit uses a
motorised ALPS 6 way rotary switch, to
select the desired input, and high grade

16 and 27
mm motorised
volume potentiome-
ters, controlled either man-
ually or via the remote handset.

In addition, the 5350 can be set to record
one input, while simultaneously listening
to a different input, similar to a video
recorder.

To accommodate Bi-wiring and Bi-
amping, the 5350 is fitted with 2 pairs of
high current speaker binding posts plus
separate pre-amp output and power amp
input sockets, Speaker A/B selection is
switchable from the front panel, joining
and separating the pre/power sections is
achieved with a link on the rear paneli
The 5350 also hosts a front panel mount-
ed headphone socket, which is unusual
in modern integrated amplifiers.

Short circuit, DC offset and anti-
thump protection circuitry makes the
5350 a sophisticated, user friendly inte-
grated amplifier, with a technical perfor-
mance close to the best that can be
achieved

Higher power and better compo-
nents are used in the SE version to pro-
vide a serious up-grade path for
Audiophiles who want the best.

Far the technically minded:-

The 5350 uses a high current, N
channel only, MOS-FET power output
stage, driven by a P channel MOS-FET
phase splitter and double differential volt-
age amplifier with symmetrical class A
driver, to achieve ultra-low distortion and
high speed with minimal negative feed-

back. Therefore, the 5350 is able to

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avoid using any active circuitry in its
pre-amp and still achieve high input
sensitivity

The optional plug-in 53LINE
amp uses all discrete transistor cir-
cuitry in a unique double differential
servo controlled design which
achieves, unbelievably low, distor-
tion and noise performance,

The standard and SE versions
use either ZOOVA or 250VA toroidal
transformers, together with multiple
power supply capacitors totalling
26,500 to 31,000uF, to achieve the
quality of computer grade capacitors
with very low inductance, for the
ultimate sonic performance.

Like other Creek amplifiers, the
5350 is DC servo controlled, to
enable direct coupling from input to
output and accurate low frequency
roll-oft, thereby eliminating sonically
degrading capacitors from its signal
path,

The 5350 is a landmark in Hi-Fi
design, incorporating state of the
art circuitry with elegant styling to
achieve a versatile and high fidelity
amplifier par excellence

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Power Output (one channel)

Power Output (both channels)
Power Output (one channel into 4 )
Total Harmonic Distortion

Frequency Response

Slew Rate

Gain

Input Sensitivity passive

Preamp Output Level

Signal to Noise Ratio

Separation

Power Consumption at Idle

Power Consumption at Full Power
Plug-in MM, MC and Gain Stages
MM Sensitivity and Impedance

MC Sensitivity and Impedance

MM Signal to Noise Ratio

Plug in Gain Stage

Weight
Size

5350

85 Watts into 80

75 Watts into 80

136 Watts into 40

< 0.05% 20 Hz to 20 kHz
3 Hz to 25 kHz -1dB

> 50 V per p5

x 50

500 mV line input
600 mV 5 k0

> 105 dB

> 55 dB at 1 kHz
35 Watts

330 Watts

3.5 mV 47 k!)
0.75 mV 1 k9
> 70 dB

+6dB

7 Kgs 15.5 lbs

A Back Panel

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95 Watts into 80

85 Watts into 80

150 Watts into 40

< 0.05% 20 Hz to 20 kHz
3 Hz to 25 kHz -1 dB

> 50 V per p5

x 50

525 mV line input
660 mV 5 k0

> 105 dB

> 55 dB at 1 kHz
40 Watts

350 Watts

3.5 mV 47 kg
0.75 mV 1 k9
> 70 dB

+6dB

8 Kgs 17.5 lbs

430 x 80 x 280 mm, 17" x 3 x 11

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