93%
E.A.T. - European Audio Team Jo N°5 Cartridge
E.A.T. Jo N°5 Cartridge
High End E.A.T. cartridge. It comes in unmistakeable mint green colour and features a truthful and immersive sound that is pure E.A.T.
E.A.T. is very proud to announce its second cartridge creation in history, after the highly acclaimed and successful Yosegi MC. Jo No.5 is an elegant masterpiece, both sonically as well as visually.
Cartridge body and stylus guard are produced by an additive manufacturing process which is called Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). This process sinters thin layers of powder with a laser to build the final structure.
Moving Coil Cartridge
- Moving Coil turntable pickup
- Nude Fine Line stylus type!
- Body and stylus guard made of Polyamide
- Selective Laser Sintering manufacturing process
- Elegant looks
- Unmistakeable E.A.T. mint colour!
WATT RECOMMENDS
Save your favorites. Compare them anytime.
Create a free HiFi Hub account to save products to your Wishlist and compare your favorites side by side.
Professional Reviews 93/100
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
94/100
Build Quality
88/100
Features Usability
86/100
Value for Money
97/100
This moving-coil cartridge delivers a spacious, vividly musical presentation, with HiFi News praising its bloom, punch and easy setup. It throws an enormous soundstage, handles vocals and textures with confidence, and stays impressively balanced across genres. For listeners chasing near-flagship drama without flagship pricing, it stands out as a richly assured performer.
What Reviewers Are Saying
Pros
Produces a large, airy soundstage with bloom and strong sense of occasion.
Delivers punchy dynamics and convincing transient attack, especially on brass and lively recordings.
Retrieves vocal nuance and texture with confidence while staying balanced across different music styles.
Easy to set up and enjoyable straight out of the box, with strong real-world usability.
&
Cons
Does not quite match the ultimate finesse of the very best Lyra or Koetsu cartridges.
Its low output and moderate tracking-force demands mean careful system matching is still important.
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 94/100
Reviewers describe a cartridge that is vivid, balanced and deeply musical, with a strong sense of ease across different kinds of records. Ken Kessler calls it 'impeccably balanced, wholly musical and a true delight,' and repeatedly praises its ability to handle both powerful and intimate material with confidence.
Overall Sound
95/100
The cartridge is presented as highly musical, vivid and tonally well sorted, with enough detail to reveal nuance and texture without sounding dry. The review highlights its 'impeccably balanced' character and says it treats diverse genres with 'utter equanimity.'
Tracking Retrieval
92/100
Reviewer comments point to very capable groove tracing and retrieval of low-level information, with praise for textures, vocal gravel and the stability of complex musical lines. Kessler also notes it was easy to get singing straight out of the box, suggesting strong practical tracking behavior, though the review stops short of explicit technical criticism or lab-test language.
Soundstage Imaging
94/100
The cartridge is credited with 'an enormous soundstage' and a 'real sense of occasion,' plus bloom and airy, blossoming presentation. Imaging is also described as tightly centered on a mono title, but the main takeaway is scale, openness and convincing spatial spread.
FEATURES USABILITY PERFORMANCE 86/100
Tonearm compatibility appears good in practical use, with the review stressing how quickly it could be set up and playing well. The low output and 2.4 g tracking force mean it will still want a suitably quiet, capable phono stage and an arm that can handle a 15 g cartridge, so it is friendly but not entirely carefree.
Tonearm Compatibility
86/100
The review says it was making music in ten minutes and 'barely fiddling with the precise settings,' which points to an accommodating, well-behaved cartridge in setup. Its low output and moderate compliance still imply some system matching is needed, so it is best suited to arms and phono stages that are comfortable with moving-coil demands.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
88/100
Reviewers do not dwell on long-term construction, but the cartridge comes across as carefully executed and easy to live with in practice. The comments about it working 'straight out of the box' and requiring only minimal fiddling suggest solid real-world implementation, though there is little detailed commentary on materials or finish.
Value for Money
97/100
Value is a major strength in the review, which calls it a 'B-A-R-G-A-I-N' at £999 and says it delivers '90% of their performance for 20% of the cost.' That is unusually strong praise for a cartridge in this class, especially given the direct comparison to far more expensive moving-coils.
Reviews
Online Reviews & Mentions
YouTube Reviews
No reviews found yet
Forum Mentions
No forum mentions found yet
Verified Dealers
Online Dealers
All Dealers
Zoom out the map to see more dealers
Authorized dealers for E.A.T. - European Audio Team Jo N°5 Cartridge
- Analogue Seduction — online and in-store — Whittlesey, England, United Kingdom (website)
- Art & Voice — online (website)
- Atelier 13 Audio — in-store — Forest Hills, Tennessee, United States (website)
- Audio Advice — online and in-store — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States (website)
- Audio Advisor — in-store — Michigan, United States (website)
- Audio Breakthroughs — in-store — Manhasset, New York, United States (website)
- Audio Creativ — in-store — Riedenburg, Bayern, Germany (website)
- Audio Lust — in-store — Mönchengladbach Ost, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (website)
- Audio Natali — in-store — Montecatini Terme, Toscana, Italy (website)
- Audio Solutions — online and in-store — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (website)
and 54 more verified dealers