E.A.T. - European Audio Team E-Glo i
The E-Glo i marries valve warmth with startlingly fast transients, painting a vast, high-reaching soundstage without blurring instrumental focus. HiFi News found its triode and ultralinear modes genuinely useful: one adds inviting richness, the other greater grip. With luxurious construction and unexpectedly muscular dynamics, this is a deeply involving KT88 integrated for serious analogue listening.
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Sound Quality
96/100
Build Quality
90/100
Features Connectivity
81/100
Value for Money
91/100
Pros
Expansive, deeply layered imaging with exceptional image height and precise instrument placement.
Warm, fluid valve character remains refined and detailed, especially rewarding with LP and tape.
Delivers crisp percussion and powerful large-scale dynamics despite its modest 18W/35W output.
Luxuriously finished, substantial construction with tactile controls and useful triode/ultralinear switching.
Cons
Premium pricing and modest power output may limit its appeal for buyers needing high-volume drive with demanding speakers.
The 26kg chassis is cumbersome to handle, and the valve-cover edges are notably sharp.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 96/100
Reviewers describe an unusually accomplished valve presentation: warm and fluid, yet detailed, fast and spatially expansive. Triode and ultralinear modes offer useful tonal alternatives, while the amplifier’s large-scale staging and precise transient handling are repeatedly singled out.
Transparency Resolution
94/100
Hi-Fi News heard refinement, finesse and detail, while Audiophilepure noted low apparent distortion and strong textural shading. Treble was described as open enough to reveal very fine detail, without the softened top end often associated with older valve designs.
Tonal Balance Musicality
95/100
The prevailing character is warmly voiced, fluid and inviting, particularly in triode mode. Reviewers found that this warmth complements vinyl and tape especially well, while triode operation can make digital sources less fatiguing without sacrificing musical involvement.
Dynamics
96/100
Despite its modest-rated tube output, the E-Glo i was called monumental and capable of scary, almost violent dynamics. Hi-Fi News found percussion exceptionally crisp and transient snap comparable with far more powerful, much costlier solid-state amplifiers.
Soundstage Imaging
97/100
This is a standout strength. Reviewers report a vast, deeply layered presentation with wall-to-wall scale, exceptional image height and highly convincing instrument placement; one described the amplifier as sounding both intimate and huge.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
90/100
Hi-Fi News calls the E-Glo i beautifully made, with luxurious presentation, positive toggle switches and smooth rotary controls. The substantial 26kg chassis feels serious, though the reviewer cautions that the valve-cover edges are very sharp when handling the amplifier.
Features Connectivity
81/100
The E-Glo i is deliberately an analogue-focused integrated amplifier, providing five RCA line inputs and a motorised volume control with remote operation. Its triode/ultralinear selector is a meaningful listening option, and the amplifier mutes while switching modes, but there are no digital inputs, phono stage, headphone output or balanced connections listed.
Value for Money
91/100
At roughly £9,498/$9,995, this is clearly a premium-priced low-power valve integrated. Hi-Fi News acknowledges that it is not cheap, but calls its perceived value self-evident and found it compelling enough to buy the review sample; its unusually authoritative performance for the output rating helps support that view.
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Specifications
- Model
- E.A.T. E-Glo I
- Output power
- 2 × 35 W /4,8Ohm – ultralinear / 2 × 18W /4,8 Ohm – triode mode
- Inputs sensitivity
- 500 mV
- Frequency range
- 10 – 50 000 Hz ±0,5dB / 5 W
- Inputs impedance
- 30 kOhm
- Inputs
- 5x line (RCA)
- Harmonic distortion
- < 0,05 % / 1 kHz, 5 W
- Signal-to-noise ratio
- > 95 dB
- Tube complement
- 1× 12AX7 , 2× 12AT7, 4× KT88
- Power
- 230 V / 50 Hz / 375VA
- Dimensions (w × h × d)
- 435 × 170 × 485 mm
- Weight
- 26kg
Manufacturer's Description — E.A.T. - European Audio Team
Highend integrated tube amplifier with classy sound & look!
E-Glo i is an "All tube" creation that brings the sonic performance of EAT in the category of integrated amplifiers!
- Entirely new topology with pure Class A mode
- High power output tubes KT-88 (Electro Harmonix or EAT)
- Auto bias functionality with cathode feedback
- Instant switching between triode & ultralinear mode
- 5 line inputs with gold plated connectors
- PCB technology with "wire to wire" connection quality
- Advanced relay attenuator technology
- Output transformers with ultra wide bandwidth
- Premium capacitors in all strages
- High quality casing with real wood side panels
New technology which does not hurt sonic imaging combines the so-called "wire to wire connections" with PCB techniques to deliver outstanding sound quality. A relay attenuator contains two independent blocks for each particular channel which has improved channel separation. This kind of volume control is being used in competing amplifiers only in a much higher price range. Gain control by 1dB, minimum attenuation of 63dB with a small number of contacts through which the signal passes as possible.
This solution has proven to be the best also in listening and audible tests we had carried out. Deviation between sync of left and right channel of attenuator is lower than 0.05dB, this outclasses even the best potentiometers. This accuracy of the attenuator control delivers excellent playback of the recorded soundstage. One of the most important parts of a tube amplifier, an output transformer, has several bifilar windings which are lined up in sections .to maximise power bandwidth.
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