Turntables, Arms & Cartridges

In just over a decade, EAT has gone from a maker solely of luxury replacement tubes to a champion of analogue with a catalogue encompassing cartridges, tonearms, turntables, phono stages and, as of 2019, a valve amp. Founder Jozefina Lichtenegger has over 20 years' experience in the high-end, starting in the late-1990s with VAIC valves, but her love is the vinyl LP. It is this which led her to develop a range of ten record decks. Her debut model, the Forte, was notable for its external twin-motor layout with two belts.

Since then, she has added models below it in price, including the single-chassis Forte S, as well as a series of turntables down to the sub-£1000 Prelude; the B-Sharp [pictured here, with lid, in its white finish] is one up from that and just may be the 'sweet spot' in the bottom half of the catalogue. The most recent addition to the line, the Fortissimo, appears in the upper reaches of the catalogue, and is the latest incarnation of the original Forte.