EAT E-Flat (£4100)

摘要

The wife of Pro-Ject's CEO Heinz Lichtenegger, Jozefina, is one of the gutsiest individuals in hi-fi today. Not only does she insist that the turntables under her EAT Forte banner are high-end, while hubby's Pro-Ject concentrates on the affordable, she's had the sheer guts to revive a much reviled form. Flat tonearms are as old as hi-fi itself, the E-Flat's arm following Connoisseur's CS1, the wooden Grace G-714, an early Grado, the back half of the 'hinged' Dynavector DV-507 and many others. Jozefina and the team at Pro-ject have re-opened the flat arm's coffin.E-Flat's interpretation, though, owes more to the ultra-flat arm of the NAD 5120 turntable, launched in late 1983, than to the above 'flat-sos' of the 1950s-1970s.