Show me your TV Stand

[Hythan]

Afternoon Ladies, and Gentlemen,

I'm in the market for a new TV Stand, nothing hugely expensive, less than £200 would be nice. Trouble is I'm just not particularly sold by any I've seen so far, and struggle to picture them in my living room with all the AV on it.

I was wondering if you wonderful people wouldn't mind throwing up a pic of your set up, so I can see the sort of thing I like, and don't like.

My TV going on top is a 40" LCD. I have SKY HD, Blu Ray, Xbox, and currently a small sub but that can be placed elsewhere.

What ya got? (Also, I like being nosey and seeing peoples living rooms, as has been enabled by the recent TV threads, so feel free to show us the room/stand)

TIA.

FYI, here's my current set up, I want to lose the black glass stand.

[Hythan]

No pics?

[ASK1974]

From memory (I haven't sold stands for years) £200 is going to be a struggle with the usual suspects; Alphason, Quadraspire, etc. God, I don't even know who's still around now! Anyway you might be better off looking at normal furniture rather than dedicated AV stands, your kit list is not especially challenging to store.

Looking at your room though I'd look at locating the source equipment away from the screen, if you can run a single CAT5e cable from the TV to an area of the room where a smaller stand and sit, or better yet a cupboard in or adjacent to the room then you could wall mount the TV and free up floor space. An HDMI switch, HDBaseT extender set and wall bracket would be a bit more than £200 but you'd have a much nicer looking setup and free up floor space.

Sorry not be directly answer your question but food for thought?

[TX1]

Got mine a few months back from these people http://www.theplasmacentre.com/
Was a bargain and if I think it was around £80, wires can be hidden as they go through the column and the tv height has some adjustment when putting it up, about 6 inches up or down.
Only problem with it was assembling it was not that easy.

[Bit of a Unit]

Have a look at the gecko range. Very happy with the product and service

[schmunk]

This is what I have.



It's black glass and >£200, so thoroughly fails to meet your criteria...

[Rosscow]

You should do what I have done.

Get some bespoke shelves made up that bridge across from the chimney breast to the wall.

I'm cheating slightly as I'm a joiner by trade but they are ever so easy to make and won't cost much.

Some veneered MDF with a nice deep 75mm solid timber edging gives a great effect.

When I get home I'll show you my setup.

[CoolHands]

When I replace mine (currently an open shelved glass thingy) I'm making sure I get something enclosed. Sick to death of millions of fking cables hanging around the back etc + dust is a nightmare + looks dated. I'm going to go for something like:





http://www.theplasmacentre.com/tv-stands-and-av-ra...

[Rosscow]

Here you go, crappy iPhone pic but you get the idea!

40" Samsung
Sky+ HD box
Canon printer
PS3
Marantz 5006 AV receiver



I'm tempted to get a wall bracket for the TV so that my Mordaunt Short centre speaker is visible (at the moment it's behind the TV).

I'd suggest something similar for yourself - a wall bracket with a 20" reach for the TV with some nice shelves below would really tidy it all up.

[phil_cardiff]

Here's mine.

http://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/furniture/alto-n...

It houses a Sky box, PS3, Amp and CD player with the TV on top.

Ok, it's 50% over budget but it's worth it for the solidity and all cables hidden away.

[Nuisance_Value]

and mine, was about £90 delivered off eBay. A flat pack job, not the best quality (one of the rubber feet on the tv stand has pulled off the 'veneer' but you never see it obviously) but it's now 5 years old and still looks pretty good.

[Funk]

I'm actually liking to sell a rack at the moment. It's an Optimum, I'll get the exact model when I'm home.

It held all my Naim kit which I've since sold:



It's modular and you can still get the shelves and uprights from Optimum last time I checked. I think it was about £400-500 new from memory.

Let me know if it's of interest.

[Bebee]

[talkssense]

http://youtu.be/oXVo1btsi3U

Neat, tidy, elegant, practical, cool and expensive

[loughran]

Nuisance_Value said:

Aplogies for the diversion but the question needs to be asked..... What is that large speakery looking thing on the left in this photo ?

[h0b0]

h0b0 said:

This is how my TV looked previously.



I have now mounted it on the wall and run the cables in the wall to the floor. I have the amp and cable box in the cabinet with a Harmony remote working through RF. It works very well and is a simple solution. The stand itself started out looking like this,



I took the legs offand cut a hole in the back for cables

This is an old post and now the TV is wall mounted and most of the kids crap is gone the setup looks great. TV is 58" for reference.

[curlyks2]

Stand from Sonorous, HG1036 if I remember rightly, bought a while back in a sale so was under £100. The cables visible under the left of the tv aren't part of the setup (the stubby white one is a Samsung MHL dongle for phone -> HDMI) - just temporarily dumped there - the installed cables are all tucked neatly into the tv stand/support which has plenty of cable space in it.

[V10Mike]

Here's my home-made minimalist stand, welded up from stainless steel. Designed around the Sonos Playbar and cable and Blueray boxes.



As much cable management as possible through the main tube:

[spats]

Well if no one else will say it, Ikea.

I have to fit in a fair chunk of stuff. Big Mission centre speaker, DVDR, NOW TV, BR, Wii, PS2, rasp pi, and I needed to keep the remotes and keyoabrd out of sight too. But this is only temp until the little ones are old enough to not want to try and insert food into them

So we bought a unit from Ikea and it sits nice in the corner of the room, has doors, hides all the cables and cost about 100 quid.

Sorry no pics to back this up!

[Nuisance_Value]

loughran said:

Aplogies for the diversion but the question needs to be asked..... What is that large speakery looking thing on the left in this photo ?

Deja Vu! An explanation and some more TV stands here..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I've since moved to a bigger house, soon to be even bigger to accommodate them.