Stabi M

The STABI M incorporates the very latest thinking and materials along with the appearance and practical advantages of classic designs. It’s an approach encapsulated in the lid, perhaps the first ever, fully engineered, low-resonance lid fitted to a record player!

Despite the solid look and feel of the plinth, it is constructed from multiple elements and layers, machined from solid brass and aluminium and designed specifically to transfer and dissipate energy generated within the deck as well as isolating the sensitive stylus/record interface from external mechanical vibration. The massive external, peripheral frame supports the mechanical elements, the removable armboard, main-bearing and platter mounted on an extremely rigid, independent top-plate, supported on four sophisticated isolation mounts. These allow the record and tonearm to be precisely levelled from above, while also isolating them from external interference, whether from the motor or outside of the deck. The large footprint and removable armboard means that almost any tonearm, even the 4Point 14 can mounted under the lid. The platter assembly combines the proven, ultra-quiet main bearing from the STABI REFERENCE and R, with its massive, diamond-polished and inverted shaft, ruby ball, low-noise thrust pads and oil baths with a heavier 12 kg laminated and internally damped aluminium/acrylic platter. The high-torque DC motor is mounted in a dedicated brass housing incorporating three layers of mechanical isolation between it and the turntable baseplate and fed from a high-quality external power supply that incorporates precise pitch control. It drives the sub-platter using a proprietary, non-elastic, precisionmachined polymer belt, the stability of the relationship between motor and platter along with the lack of rotational error in the moving parts delivering the dynamic range and speed stability of idler or direct drive systems but without their high noise-floor and mechanical breakthrough.

The platter is topped with our own, specially developed rubber/textile record support surface and the Kuzma screw-down clamp. The high-torque drive system ensures superb speed stability but also allows the acceleration of the platter from stationary to 33.3 RPM is under two seconds – less than a single revolution of the record. A remote control start facility means that you’ll never miss those opening bars again.

With its sophisticated, massive, mechanically-layered plinth system, silent bearing, heavily laminated platter and non-resonant lid, the STABI M goes further in isolating the fragile stylus/record interface from the outside world than any other standalone record player – meaning that you hear more detail and are brought closer to the live event than ever before.

STABI M — an unrivalled combination of performance and practicality.

STABI M Plug and Play — The STABI M can be supplied Worldwide, as a complete record replay solution, precisely set up in the factory with a 4Point tonearm and CAR cartridge.