EAT jo Nº8. The high-output Jo N°8 moving coil pickup will pull more out of the groove than you ever imagined.

In 2018, EAT's Jo No. 5 moving coil cartridge raised the bar for affordable transducers capable of high-end performance. Critics around the world recognized it as remarkable for a cartridge of its price. But, they wondered, what would EAT offer without price limitations? According to its founder and CEO, Jozefina Lichtenegger, "Jo N°8 was created by the demand to go one step further, following the success of Jo N°5. Customers and distributors agreed that the design was an obvious candidate for more unique components, an even more careful level of selection, and ultimately superlatively precise, but inevitably more expensive and exclusive bodywork, we knew this recipe would result in a wonderful-sounding transducer."

The use of the word "transducer" is the key to understanding the demands of the design criteria, with the recognition that a cartridge is just such a device: a turntable/cartridge is an electromechanical transducer that converts mechanical information into an electrical signal, working exactly the opposite of a loudspeaker. This conversion is, in the opinion of EAT, the MOST CRITICAL element of an audio chain because any distortion or non-linearity in the amplification is ten times less than that produced in the speakers or through the cartridge.

For the discerning listener, any increase in investment in a fine cartridge is well worth it. Benefits include minimizing distortion and achieving a perfectly flat frequency response. Achieving both is extremely demanding and requires the utmost attention to detail, supported by the use of the highest quality materials.

But that's not enough: the designer must understand how to apply them in combination: the needle, the cantilever, the bearing, the suspension, the "engine" and last but not least the body shell, working in perfect harmony. Elevating the already exceptional performance of the No. 5, EAT has employed a bare Shibata stylus on a boron cantilever for the No. 8, housed in a solid chestnut matte-finish wood body. Paired perfectly with the new F-Note toner, the Jo No. 8 moving coil cartridge extracts more from the groove than you ever imagined.

Moving coil cartridge.

Moving coil.

Naked shibata.

Boron cantilever.

elegant look

8N pure copper coil wire.

Selection for the smallest tolerances.

Special TPE suspension.

Dark stabilized chestnut / aluminum body.

Exclusive real wood case.

EAT JO N°8 CARTRIDGE TECHNICAL INFORMATION.

TYPE OF STYLE Shibata nude on boro cantilever.

WEIGHT 12.5g.

FREQUENCY RESPONSE 20 - 30,000 Hz (-3dB).

OUTPUT VOLTAGE 0.3 mV.

CHANNEL SEPARATION > 25 dB (1kHz), > 17 dB (15kHz).

DYNAMIC/LATERAL COMPETITION 15 μm/mN.

TRACKING FORCE RANGE 2.0-2.5 g (20-25 mN).

RECOMMENDED TRACKING FORCE 2.3g (23mN).

FOLLOWING ANGLE 20°.

COIL WIRE MATERIAL 8-pin copper.

INTERNAL IMPEDANCE, DC RESISTANCE 5 Ohm.

RECOMMENDED LOAD RESISTANCE > 15 Ohm.