Stogi S

Kuzma’s STOGI S uni-pivot tonearm is the gateway to a world of high-quality record replay, giving owners access to the fantastic musical performance of vinyl records. Despite its apparent simplicity, the mechanical elements of the STOGI S have been painstakingly refined and its geometric and mechanical characteristics exactingly executed to provide the maximum possible performance.

The parts for the STOGI S are almost entirely machined from solid aluminium or brass, carefully shaped and combined to deliver structural integrity and minimise resonance. Typical of this attention to detail is the uniquelyshaped head-shell element. Carefully machined from a single billet to provide a perfectly smooth and rigid interface for the top of the cartridge – essential if spurious mechanical energy is going to be transmitted away from the sensitive generator mechanism in the pick-up – the elegant, cylindrical segment is bonded directly into the damped aluminium arm-tube to maximise energy transfer.

The arm-tube assemble rides on a hardened steel, polished pivot that ensures extremely low friction and rattle free bearing with zero play. The low slung bearing housing and its massive surface contact with the damping well controls resonance and provides stability to the arm in operation. Two brass counterweights allow easy adjustment of tracking force with separate lateral grub screws for the precise setting of azimuth. The highquality tonearm cable runs in a single, uninterrupted piece from head-shell to RCA phono connectors, while it is also possible to specify the STOGI S for balanced XLR connection or with a 5-pin Din connector to accept standard tonearm cables.