In a sad act of music elitism (of which we have to admit we’re guilty), some just feel compelled to buy vinyl copies of landmark releases, life-changing modern classics and, of course, the kind of tragic junk store crap that never made it as far as tape, let alone CD.

And then we buy an Ipod.

Which is where Seagrand’s (prestigious brand that it is) Genesound will come in handy. From all reports, it takes the beautiful, organic, analogue recordings you hold so dear and rips them seamlessly into the heavily-compressed digital copies you’re actually more likely to get around to listening to.

We’d like to give you all the deets here: price, availability, this, that, the other – but who knows. The product website is totally in Japanese (obviously), so all we know is the Japanese

Seagrand Genesound (or, as hilariously translated by Google) [via Crunch Gear]