Product Description
,Modern Style Black Finish Metal DVD Tower Rack ,Cherry and Black Locking Media Storage Console , Atlantic 22535605 Canoe 231 CD, Media Storage Cabinet , Oskar Media Tower 52" Wide TV Stand fits most 52" and smaller flat panels
This review is from: Techcraft HBL52 52-Inch Wide TV Stand (Black) (Electronics)
This TV stand actually looks quite good with my equipment, much better than I expected. Personally, I don't like a lot of the now-popular "modern" style (glass and metal) stands. This piece is different for two reasons -- the color and the support structure.
Whereas most modern pieces are silver colored, this piece is all black, so it blends in nicely with standard A/V equipment and leaves your focus where it should be -- on your TV. For an added touch, the glass shelves have a black coating on the bottom side, so they are not see-through.
For the support structure, the bottom and middle shelves are each supported by an "H"-shaped support, with front-to-back supports on the left and right sides and a side-to-side support running across the middle of the shelf. The top shelf is supported by three front-to-back supports -- one in the center and one on each side (about five inches in from the edge). Rubber bumpers are provided so that the glass does not rest directly on the metal supports.
The two biggest reasons I bought this piece were the price (it's not cheap, but it's reasonable when compared to most stands which are 300 dollars and up) and its openness. Aesthetically, I would have preferred a more traditional closed-box enclosure, but I was concerned about the heat generated by my receiver, so I opted for this open-air stand.
MEASUREMENTS
Make sure you measure your equipment to make sure it will fit. I bought this after seeing the picture showing the dimensions, and assumed that my DVD player and CD player could be stacked (6" total) on the bottom shelf, however this was not possible because the clearance listed is not the actual clearance. Another review does clearly indicate this, which I would have seen if I had read the reviews before purchasing (yes, I was foolish for not reading the reviews first, but the dimensions in the picture are still very misleading).
Clearance between the bottom and middle shelf is about 6-3/8", but the support bar (which runs across the center of the shelf) is 1" and the bumpers are 1/8", so the actual clearance for the bottom shelf is about 5-1/4".
Clearance between the middle shelf and the bottom edge of the front/back frame is about 6-3/8", but the front-to-back supports which the top shelf rest on are vaulted, yielding a total clearance of about 8-3/4" if an item is slid onto the shelf from the side.
Clearance between the floor and the bottom edge of the bottom shelf's support bars is about 2-1/2".
Each of the three glass shelves is 3/16" thick and has a black coating on the bottom side (so it is not see-through), and the rubber bumpers between the glass shelf and metal support are 1/8" thick.
Each of the four feet are leveling feet, so you can turn them to unscrew them a bit if necessary to make the stand level. However, you will almost surely need help doing this because the stand is heavy (you may need help putting the glass shelves in for the same reason). If you do need to adjust the feet for leveling, make sure you don't unscrew them too much (like I did). There is nothing preventing them from unscrewing all the way, and they are very difficult to screw back in once the stand is assembled.
Like most pre-fab stuff, this stand uses an included allen wrench for most of the screws (when will these companies learn that we don't want to collect allen wrenches from every piece of furniture we buy?). You will, however, need a philips-head screwdriver to attach the wire-hiding panel.
Personally, I think this is a great stand. There are only two ways that I would improve it. First, they should have provided a few more rubber bumpers. You only have two bumpers for each of the long shelf supports which goes the entire width of the bottom and middle shelves. If you don't have any heavy equipment, that probably won't be a problem. If you do have something heavy (such as a receiver), then the glass may bend in the middle unless you add another bumper or some other spacer (I cut off a piece of the cardboard shipping material and used that as a spacer). Second, it would have been nice if the wire-hiding panel had some sort of hooks or loops you could use for wire management (even just something that you could loop a velcro strip through). Other than that, this stand seems pretty much perfect to me.
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