What an exciting time for analog playback!  LP playback technology has never been more vital as the LP has seen far more drastic and rapid improvements.  Thanks to dedicated, passionate and innovative designers, like Seiji Yoshioka of Immutable Music, producers of the Transfiguration cartridges, the LP playback has achieved heights never imagined.

With his groundbreaking utilization of the yokeless ring-magnet construction, Mr. Yoshioka presented the LP world with a new window into the music of the vinyl LP.  Yoshioka san has constantly strived to bring the listener ever closer to the sounds and emotions of the live event. Constantly improving materials and construction techniques, he has since set the pace and defined the state-of-the-art for natural-sounding LP reproduction.  they deliver a very natural and live sound filled with "Rhythm, flow, emotion..."  thru a transfiguration cartridge, one notices a foot is tapping and head bobbing.

BANPUKU carries the full line of Transfiguration cartridges including the Orpheus, quiet possibly the finest MC transducer in the world.