Stabi S

The STABI S is Kuzma’s most affordable turntable, the gateway to really reproducing music from analogue records, yet its performance is anything but entry level.

Key components are shared with our high-end designs, married to a carefully simplified structure that combines materials and construction, to deliver minimal musical compromise.

The solid aluminium platter is precision machined, carefully profiled, internally damped and topped with Kuzma’s unique, hybrid rubber and textile mat, in order to maximise rotational stability and dissipate the energy generated by record replay. The dense and rigid T-shaped chassis guarantees the crucial mechanical relationship between the main bearing and tonearm mount. Constructed from massive, solid brass rods, they give the whole turntable structural rigidity, mass to dissipate internally generated energy and a reassuring stability.

The platter spins on a diamond polished, fine grain carbon steel bearing shaft that’s fitted into a zero play, low-noise resin/nylon sleeve. This provides low friction surfaces with excellent non-resonant and self-damping properties. A precisely machined, flat rubber belt, driven by an AC motor mounted in its own independent, high-mass brass housing, ensures smooth, stable rotation.

Despite its simple elegance and minimalist form-factor, the STABI S design is flexible and can be upgraded (or ordered) to accommodate multiple arms and a sophisticated external motor power supply. The result is a turntable with performance that belies its modest price, performance that is worthy of even the most ambitious audio systems.