Established 2020  ·  Three generations in audio

step deeper into a world of music.

A London-based music-tech, Hi-Fi company
building the next generation of Audiophile hardware.
Exploring how we listen, feel, and connect to sound.

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— The Mission

We design for moments when the product disappears and only music remains.

Step Deeper is a London Hi-Fi design and engineering studio. We develop amplifiers, loudspeakers and complete systems built on a single conviction, that the point of all of it is not the kit but the moment the music arrives in full and moves you.

A singer mid performance, arm raised, lost in the moment.
— The Portfolio

Four decades of one family’s dedication to music.

The original Creek Audio CAS 4040 integrated amplifier and CAS 3040 tuner, photographed together.
CAS 4040 and CAS 3040. 1982
Hardware  ·  Est. 1982

Creek Audio™

British Hi-Fi, founded by Michael Creek in 1982 from the back bedroom of the family home, and still in the Creeks' hands today. Designed to reveal music, not embellish it.

More than four decades on, the work is the same: amplifiers and loudspeakers engineered to get out of the way. The current programme spans the Cymatics loudspeaker range and the next generation of Creek electronics, designed in London and built to be measured, listened to and kept.

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— The Word

Listen to the word on the street.

45 years of Creek. Anniversary · 2026

The 4040 and 3040 set the marque on its course in 1982. 2027 will mark Creek Audio's forty-fifth year, with plans afoot we look forward to sharing.

Music is medicine Thinking · 2026

Music as therapy is not a figure of speech. It slows the pulse, lifts the mood, carries grief that words cannot reach. Yet heard through cheap earbuds on a noisy train, the same recording arrives with a fraction of its force. Fidelity is not vanity. It decides how much of the feeling survives the journey to you.

Joining MTUK. News · 2026

Step Deeper is now a member of Music Technology UK, the trade association for the UK's music tech sector. With more than 320 members, from early stage founders to industry veterans, MTUK exists to see British music technology recognised as world leading. We are proud to support the organisation and its members, and we look forward to working together.

A blank sheet... Design · 2026

Designed from a blank sheet of paper, with no legacy industrial design to honour and no incumbent product line to extend. That freedom changed both the brief and the result. We have our friends at Heirloom to thank for the driving force behind this.

Cymatics 6. Review · 2026

The Ear has awarded the new Creek Audio Cymatics 6 loudspeaker five stars, a careful and considered read of what the speaker does and where it sits in the room.

Read the review (PDF) →
— The One Beta

Everything we build starts at The One.

One Step Deeper is the front door to our app development: one free account, one shared library, and every instrument we release from the engineering bench behind it. Two are live in beta today, the Loudspeaker Simulator and the Listening Room Optimiser, and any design you save follows you between them on every device you sign in from.

Enter The One ↗
An engineering sheet from Step Deeper One: a two way loudspeaker response beside a listening room plan with first reflections marked.
Simulated, then placed. One account.
— Contact

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