Creative Audio

Happy New Year! 🥂

We are getting ready to turn up the volume at our new location at 549 Academy Road in the heart of River Heights! 🥰

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, what with the usual Christmas festivities and setting up the new store. It’s coming together nicely and, thanks to the help of some very generous folk, I look forward to opening my door for you on January 3rd!

📸 The Marantz PM6007 integrated amplifier in what I’m currently calling the Green Room - one of four sound rooms at the new location! The PM6007 is a fantastic mid-entry-level amplifier and a gateway into the world of Marantz Hi-Fi. Award-winning composer Max Richter said this of Marantz: “…the first time I listened on a Marantz system, which my parents had bought, it was almost like I hadn’t heard music before, a door opening into a completely different space.”

I couldn’t agree more, Max. I bought my first Marantz (from Creative Audio of course!) in 1993. It was a CD-53 MKII and it redefined my expectations when it came to CD sound. Up until then CD, to me, sounded “clean” and free of the pops of vinyl and the hiss of cassette. Yet somehow it still didn’t sound “right”. It was sterile and completely uninvolving. Then I heard the Marantz. It was a key lesson in my hi-fi journey: the importance of musicality in the performance of a hi-fi component. Teach me which keys to tap and I could play a piano, but that wouldn’t make me a musician. To Marantz, music reproduction is an art and I am thrilled to represent this tradition, going on now for over 70 years, as the owner of Creative Audio.