The JL5 was designed to bring the famous CAT quality into a smaller more convenient chassis and make tube biasing much easier. The JL5 even uses the same driver tube technology as THE STATEMENT amplifier. This driver is specifically optimized for the high current KT120 tube, but also yields superior results with the venerable 6550/KT88 tube.

The new JL5 delivers the famous “drive anything” sound of its bigger brothers. In fact, the JL5 is fully competitive with the older version of the JL2 in that regard, and it sounds even better! With triode purity, transparency, and vibrancy that surpasses even the most refined low power single ended triode amplifiers combined with brute force current delivery exceeding all other tube amps, the JL5 is an amplifier which will force you to reevaluate your standards.

“…the CAT JL5 [is] without any doubt the best valve power amp I’ve ever heard.” - HiFi Records