Ken Micallef heard a Kuzma Stabi S turntable and Stogi S tonearm at Stereophile's show at the New York Hilton, bought the pair on impulse in 2001, and still calls it "one of my best-ever audio purchases." Even under show conditions it made "rock-solid images." Micallef notes that some call it the Kuzma "pipe bomb." Two solid brass rods lock together in a T, with the platter at the crossing and the tonearm at the far end. That rigid frame is the Kuzma idea. Many turntables float the record on springs, and Kuzma instead builds from rigid, non-resonant metal and acrylic, so vibration drains away and the record and arm stay locked in place. Kuzma says it aims to mimic the process of cutting a record. On the Stabi XL, Michael Fremer of Stereophile heard bass that was "taut, as deep as it goes, and pitch-perfect." Kuzma suits listeners who want steady images and a firm grip on the beat.

Start with the Stabi S, Kuzma's most affordable turntable, which Micallef credits with nearly 20 years of fault-free performance. The step up is the Stabi R, which Franc Kuzma calls "essentially a scaled-down Stabi M," with room for up to four tonearms. It weighs almost 80lb, so plan the stand first. Micallef built one from cinder blocks, and the same stand gave his old Stabi S blacker backgrounds and larger images. The Stabi XL has no suspension and no way to level its base, so Fremer says it must sit on a perfectly level platform. For an arm, the 4Point 9 is light enough for spring-suspended turntables like the Linn LP12, and Fremer found it "somewhat faster and more responsive" than the 11-inch model. With a 4Point or the Safir 9, Michael Trei advises measuring tracking force with the stylus at record height, because the force changes as the arm moves up and down.

Franc Kuzma started a Music Lovers Club in the mid-1970s and worked as an engineer in the acoustics lab at Iskra before he left in 1982 to build turntables in what was then Yugoslavia. He named his first turntable Stabi, for stability. In November 1985 Martin Colloms reviewed the Stogi tonearm in Hi-Fi News and found it competitive with top British arms such as the Linn Ittok. Michael Trei read that review on his subway commute and bought a Stogi on his next trip to London. An EY profile of the company calls the Stabi the first audio product made in Yugoslavia to be noticed in the Western press. The brass Stabi XL caused a sensation in 1999, and Fremer found it "monumental, finely sculpted, and remarkably compact." The 4Point followed in 2008, and Fremer bought one. The Safir 9 of 2022 has an armtube of lab-grown sapphire, and Trei notes that the original Stogi is still made in nearly unchanged form.