High-End Audio Buyer’s Guide 2024: EAT E-Glo S with LPS

$3599 stand alone ($4999 bundled with LPS)

European Audio Team (E.A.T.) has taken the ECC83 dual-triode tube and merged it with solid-state electronics to create the E-Glo S mm/mc phonostage. When it is coupled with the LPS external linear power supply, the E-Glo S’s performance improves, resulting in increased listening pleasure. Sonically, the E-Glo S/LPS combo produced a consistently easygoing sound that never ventured into aggression. While the E-Glo S/LPS isn’t the most resolving or dynamically agile phonostage reviewer Andre Jennings has heard, it is fine enough to capture the essence of the music and deliver it with sufficient information to allow many hours of listening pleasure. (298)