EAT C-Major Turntable

Company & Product Overview

While EAT has been around for over two decades in Europe, they are relatively new to the US market. We had heard of the brand but never seen the product in person. That is, until CES 2017. We were so impressed that we decided to become a dealer on the spot.

EAT stands for European Audio Team and is owned by Jozefina Lichtenegger. Her design philosophy is to combine performance with beauty, and we have to say, the EAT products are just beautiful. We cover EAT’s very interesting history in great detail in our review of the C-Sharp -- the bigger brother to the C-Major. While we won’t repeat it all here, she is married to Heinz Lichtenegger, the managing director of Pro-ject Audio Systems. Pro-ject has some amazing production facilities that EAT is able to take advantage of, but the two companies are run totally separate and don’t even really have any similarly designed products.

EAT tables start at $1,595 but go all the way up to over $11k, so the C-Major is the second turntable in their line. It is a fully manual table and comes in