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European Audio Team (EAT)
Website:https://www.europeanaudioteam.com/
Est. year: 1993
Location: Czech Republic
European Audio Team (EAT) is a Czech-based maker of turntables, tonearms, phono stages, tube amplifiers and its own vacuum tubes. It was formed in the late 1990s by Jozefina Lichtenegger and its main products are handmade 300B and KT88 valves and a growing family of belt-drive record players built near Prague. Few analogue firms of its size make both the glass in the amplifier and the platter on the deck.
Range & what it's known for
The turntable line climbs from the Prelude and B-Sharp through the C-Sharp and C-Major to the F-Dur, and EAT pairs its decks with in-house arms such as the 9-inch C-Note on the C-Major and the F-Note. The E-Flat stands apart with a flat tonearm that no other EAT design uses. Phono amplification runs from the compact E-Glo Petit, built around two long-life 12AX7 dual triodes, to the E-Glo S, while the E-Glo I is a pure Class A integrated that runs on KT88 output tubes. The valve side centres on the 300B triode and the KT88 Diamond.
Who owns it and where it's made
Lichtenegger owns EAT outright and runs it as CEO. She began selling 300B and KT88 tubes made for her at the former Tesla works in 2003, and in 2006 bought that tube operation from its retiring owner, then moved staff and machinery to a new site just outside Prague. Every valve is handmade there on equipment inherited from the Tesla Vrsovice factory and tested on custom rigs. Turntables are also built in Prague, and EAT shares production facilities with Pro-Ject Audio, the company owned by her husband Heinz Lichtenegger, while the two lines are kept separate.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables and tube electronics sit side by side here. The least expensive EAT decks cost about EUR 2,000, and the top models well over EUR 20,000.
Who it's for
EAT suits record collectors after a deck, arm and valve phono stage designed to work together, starting with a Prelude or B-Sharp and moving up to the C-Major or F-Dur without changing maker. It also suits owners of 300B or KT88 amplifiers looking for replacement valves produced by a small Czech factory with its own test equipment.
Range & what it's known for
The turntable line climbs from the Prelude and B-Sharp through the C-Sharp and C-Major to the F-Dur, and EAT pairs its decks with in-house arms such as the 9-inch C-Note on the C-Major and the F-Note. The E-Flat stands apart with a flat tonearm that no other EAT design uses. Phono amplification runs from the compact E-Glo Petit, built around two long-life 12AX7 dual triodes, to the E-Glo S, while the E-Glo I is a pure Class A integrated that runs on KT88 output tubes. The valve side centres on the 300B triode and the KT88 Diamond.
Who owns it and where it's made
Lichtenegger owns EAT outright and runs it as CEO. She began selling 300B and KT88 tubes made for her at the former Tesla works in 2003, and in 2006 bought that tube operation from its retiring owner, then moved staff and machinery to a new site just outside Prague. Every valve is handmade there on equipment inherited from the Tesla Vrsovice factory and tested on custom rigs. Turntables are also built in Prague, and EAT shares production facilities with Pro-Ject Audio, the company owned by her husband Heinz Lichtenegger, while the two lines are kept separate.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables and tube electronics sit side by side here. The least expensive EAT decks cost about EUR 2,000, and the top models well over EUR 20,000.
Who it's for
EAT suits record collectors after a deck, arm and valve phono stage designed to work together, starting with a Prelude or B-Sharp and moving up to the C-Major or F-Dur without changing maker. It also suits owners of 300B or KT88 amplifiers looking for replacement valves produced by a small Czech factory with its own test equipment.
