Monoprice Elements Speaker Stand - 18 Inch (Pair) With Cable Management, Strong Tempered Glass Base With Floor Spikes

I own far too many speakers and have far more audio set ups than I need. But when the time came to set up a restored pair of vintage larger bookshelf speakers (23" high, 12" wide, 9" deep) I used a couple milk crates. The wife acceptance factor of two old milk crates in the living room was pretty low, so back into the basement went these lovely speakers from history. Enter these stands. Packed well for shipping. Easy to assemble. No missing parts. Far more stable with the large bookshelf speakers than one could imagine. Very happy as they look classy and put the tweeter right at ear level. For those of you with larger bookshelf speakers you can do far worse than these stands for far more money. I'll probably order a couple more pairs because I'm crazy that way. Can never have too much audio gear!

Works well with my bookshelf size speakers. Seem very stable.

Great stands at a bargain price white large top plate and level base.

One stand was perfectly fine, but the other wasn't level and it is pretty much unusable.

The stand is not stable for any things heavy than 5 lbs

The stands look great. One of the stands could not be leveled because the spikes would not go in completely into the base. Did to this the stands are quite unstable on a carpeted surface.

I was disappointed with the quality of these speaker stands. I will be replacing these when I find some I can rely upon. End caps on the upright are made of plastic and easily deform and are difficult to position. These could have easily been metal and solid. The tension bar that holds is all together should be a little bit longer. For me, the plastic end caps result in a slight lean to the pillar that is disappointing. It is all so unnecessary, the deficiencies on this product. For $1 more of manufacturing cost these could be perfect.

Well made, they look great, and hold my JBL studio monitors with no problem.

Excellent value. Go together easily and are very solid. Look nice and have all the extras: cable management, adhesive cushions for the top plate, spikes (and spike covers) for the floor plate. Look like they were custom made for my pair of AR PS2052 and greatly improve their sound, especially the base.

Love them! Easy to put together and a fine product all the way around.

Great build quality, they look great and most importantly, have improved my listening experience by placing the mid-high frequency drivers at ear level. The low frequencies benefit with tighter, more discernable tones.

They are as good looking as pictured, and solid. It was a little tricky to assemble them to perfectly straight and level, you have to be somewhat forceful snapping in the pole cap inserts; but other than that, they were easy to assemble.

Five years ago I never bothered with the wall mounts that I bought for my bookshelf speakers because my wall material is 1” thick and difficult to use with anchors. Instead I sat them on some overturned metal IKEA wastebaskets. Good enough! But I have a tiny living room and it was time to make this area look neater. These fit the bill because the black glass matches my media console’s top, I needed some that weren’t so tall as to get in the way of the projector screen, and anyway these were at least taller than the wastebaskets so certainly an improvement! And of course they are $35. The construction is interesting, basically a rod threaded on two sides holds the top and bottom together, and they pass through some plastic end caps that fit awkwardly at each end of the tube, and then it all compresses by tightening a nut. I needed my own 10mm wrench. It takes a little adjusting to square all the parts with each other. The pointy anti-tip feet sit into some plastic bases which my wood floors will appreciate. The threading on the feet was not great so they didn’t all evenly screw in, and needed to be carefully started then gently persuaded with slip joint pliers. The straps are a nice touch but I think I’ll find that blue tack I bought years ago too. I would buy them again for $35.

For budget stands these look very nice. Not the end-all of speaker stands but, definitely a good starting point.

Bought this to mount a heavy center speaker, i put the two of them side by side so that the large center speaker can sit well on these stands.. Seem to hold up fine, no complaints and were easy to assemble

The bases and platforms are good, though the pillars themselves are fairly cheap. The cord-in-pillar thing would work well with just speaker cables, but I have powered monitor speakers with multiple inputs/cables, and that was a pretty tight squeeze. The weak point is the bolts for the feet and center truss — the threads were so poor, I was worried I wouldn't be able to put it together, and would have to send it back. Get better bolts!