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Transfiguration Axia Moving Coil Cartridge

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Transfiguration Axia Moving Coil Cartridge

With his groundbreaking utilization of the yokeless ring-magnet construction, Mr. Yoshioka presented the LP world with a new window into the music buried in the black grooves of the vinyl LP. His first product, the Transfiguration AF-1, set completely new standards of transparency, naturalness and neutrality for phono cartridges of its day. Since that time, he has constantly striven 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. His Transfiguration cartridges, using live, un-amplified music as their benchmark, do not take LP reproduction into the realm of the hyper-real, with sizzling technicolors, exaggerated leading-edge transients, "enormous soundstaging",  "pinpoint imaging",  or "lush warmth". Instead, they deliver a very natural and alive-sounding reproduction of what the recording engineer heard, as he or she sat in the recording booth, listening to the master tapes. Audiophile language does not seem to apply, rather, musical language seems more apt. "Rhythm, flow, emotion..." are the kinds of words that come to mind, as one notices a foot is tapping and the head is bobbing and maybe even a few goose bumps are rising...

 

 

...but, as always, the magic is in the midrange. Human voices take on a you-are-there sense of reality that raises those goose bumps. When you hear things you have never heard from your records before, you can be sure they will help to complete the musical picture, rather than distract with meaningless detail or artificial "air." The transparency of these cartridges extends from the deepest bass notes to the heights of inaudibility. More than ever, they are able to track the micro-dynamic ebb and flow of the music like no other cartridge. The result is a sense of musical anticipation and excitement one normally experiences only at the live event. Listening to jazz, you can almost smell the cigar smoke and single-malt whiskey in the air; a classical LP calls forth images of rich velvet curtains and wisps of fine perfume; rock and roll brings back the moisture of the grass seeping through your jeans and the smell of sweat and something sweet upon the breeze… From Hi Fi World, October 2007: " Simply among the finest cartridges I've heard at any price. The Transfiguration Axia has astonishing midrange detail and is MUSICAL. It's in the ring magnets, friends!  Transfiguration's designer still maintains that his reference is live, un-amplified acoustic music...as I do....He loves opera (I don't, for the most part), and understands that the biggest test for any system is large-scale symphonic and opera music. Oh, by the way, if you want to listen to ANY type of music, Transfiguration cartridges will do THAT, too! Ultimate midrange detail and finesse, tons of information for you detail-first guys, and gobs of emotion to hook you and keep you listening!  Give it a listen and you'll be hooked too! 

 

Body Aluminium,resonance controlled

Cantilever 0.3 mm diameter boron

Stylus Ogura PA (3 x 30 μm) solid diamond

Magnet Samarium cobalt

Weight 7 g

Output 0.4 mV (3.54 cm/s, 1 kHz)

Internal impedance 10 Ohms

Recommended load > 20 Ohms

Recommended tracking force 2.0 g

Optimum working temp 23° C
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