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 Great Stands July 1, 2008
Great stands. They are exactly what I ordered and look and perform as advertised. good price too.
 Very weak poor design June 18, 2008
Very poor, weak design. For Bose owners these are a rip-off. Bose was so intent that these stands only work with there one little speaker they broke good design practice by using very small mounting screws with practically no edge distance. So if your speaker ever turns over with Bose little boxes on it you can expect a broker unrepairable stand. Being a design engineer I was able to foil there efforts by carefully oversizing the holes to take a normal screw and adding a second screw into my speaker case at the bottom. It looks great with my Gigaworks THX speakers and is much stronger the what Bose sold people. Bose only provided the one undersized screw and a tiny plastic nub at the bottom which is supposed to barely hole the speaker straight. My speakers are now mounted much stronger than Bose's and look a sound a lot better. I will be adding pictures of these.
One important note is that these speaker stands are advertised as 'universal' when in fact they are designed to only work with one Bose speaker, the small cube. I would have rated as one star but since I was able to mount my speaker even better than they intended, I will give them 2 stars for their bad effort a bad engineering.
 They look great BUT... March 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
...I'm only giving them a 3-Star Rating. No one else has mentioned my particular issue ~ actually I have quite the OPPOSITE problem of one of the other 3-Star Rating reviewers! I don't have Bose Speaker Cable, rather I have a Sony system and use the accompanying Sony Speaker Cable which is pretty thin. That being the case, my wire will NOT stay in the slot intended to conceal the wire. Although these are "Universal Stands", the slit in the stand is mostlikely made for wider wire ~ the Sony wire I have is just too thin to stay in there at ALL. I had originally wanted to use heavier cable but because of those proprietary OEM Clips/Plugs that Sony puts on the ends of their wires I wasn't able to easily swap out the Sony wire. So I can line the wire up but it will not stay in there without help, especially at the top where it angles back. I love the angled neck and how thin and graceful they are in comparison to other "clunkier" stands so I opted to keep them but I've had to use black electrical tape along the entire length of the pole to keep the wire in place. Granted you cannot SEE the tape, but in my opinion I spent waaaaaaaayyyyyy too much money to use tape. If I had it to do all over again, in MY case (or in YOUR case if your wires are thinner) you might want to opt for cheaper stands with an open pole (like the Atlantic ones) rather than stands with a slot to conceal the wires. That completely enclosed pole would made all the difference in the world.
Way overpriced February 27, 2008
I haven't had any problems with these (but then what sort of problems does one have with slabs of metal?) but the price is about 10 times higher than what it's worth.
Best stands January 14, 2008
If you have a Bose 5 theater speaker system these may be the best speaker stands for your system. Perfect height with no obstructions and wires are hidden which is big plus.
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