According to EAT 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 a "Obvious candidate for more exclusive components, an even more careful level of selection and a superlative, but inevitably more expensive and exclusive, precision body. We knew that 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 capsule is just such a device: an electromechanical transducer that converts mechanical information into an electrical signal, functioning exactly the opposite of a speaker. 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 increased investment in a fine cartridge is worth it. Benefits include reducing distortion to a minimum 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 is not enough: the designer must understand how to apply them in combination: the needle, the cantilever, the bearing, the suspension, the motor and, finally, the body shell, working in perfect harmony. To elevate the already exceptional performance of the N°5, EAT has employed for the N°8 a bare Shibata stylus on a boron cantilever, housed in a solid chestnut matte finished wood body. The Jo N°8 moving coil cartridge fits perfectly with the new F-Note tonearm, pulling more out of the groove than we could imagine.
Characteristics:
- MC (Moving Coil) type capsule.
- Nude Shibata type needlepoint carving.
- Boron cantilever.
- 8N pure copper coil cable.
- Selection for the smallest tolerances.
- Special TPE suspension.
- Dark stabilized chestnut and aluminum body.
- Exclusive real wood case.
- Weight 12.5 grams.
- Frequency response: 20 to 30,000 Hz (-3dB).
- Output voltage 0.3 mV.
- Channel separation > 25 dB (1kHz), > 17 dB (15kHz).
- Dynamic/lateral competition 15 µm/mN.
- Support force range 2.0-2.5 g (20-25 mN).
- Recommended support force 2.3 g (23mN).
- Tracking angle 20°.
- Recommended load impedance > 15 Ohm.
