TV Stand Advice

[bodhi]

Hi All,

We got a bit carried away on Saturday in Currys, and seem to have walked away with a 65" Sony XD93 which is due to be delivered on Thursday, and now the OH has asked me to start looking at TV Stands. We are in rented accomodation so wall mounting isn;t really an option sadly - we currently have a black toughened glass stand (not sure of manufacturer sadly) that was rated to 42" screens and above - it's working fine with our current 50" on there but I suspect the 65 will probably be pushing it.

OH is after a wider one this time - potentially up to 1.5m - 2m wide. We have seen a few but I am concerned that they won' t have room for our Yamaha amp in there.

We say the below in the Swedish Meatball place, which looked along the right lines, it's over 300 quid with delivery however. It has enough room for all the kit we have underneath the telly however.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furnitu...

Under the telly will be going:
Yamaha AV Amp
Blueray Player
PlayStation 4
Sky HD
Possible Playstation 3

Any have any ideas or good places to look?

Edited by bodhi on Monday 16th January 15:00

[bodhi]

Thanks for the suggestions folks, I've run through a few of them with SWMBO, and apart from opening up a whole new debate (do we want classic look or more modern?), the top suggestions so far seem to be:

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

http://www.mmtfurnituredesigns.co.uk/mmt-casino-13...

I'm probably leaning towards the MDA Designs one, as it is usefully cheaper and has plenty of space for everything we need, however I am a big fan of the MMT one posted too.

[bodhi]

Didn't manage to get a centre speaker past the boss, was hard enough to persuade her we needed my old Mission 733i's hooked up the the AV amp

Just to throw a spanner into the works, Currys have royally fked up the delivery (managed to put it in the system with no date), and it's touch and go if they can still get stock (it's the 65 inch Sony XD93, which I'm told is no longer available), so we're going back to the store tonight to see if they can throw in a stand for the inconvenience.

[bodhi]

Just to add a bit of closure to this, whilst looking at stands SWMBO decided that we need some new furniture in the living room - new sofa, sideboard etc, so we just got a temporary stand from Amazon to tide us over until we do that - which I suspect is her revenge for me suggesting we buy a new TV

Anyway we went for https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B78A4NM/ref... and it seems much as you would expect - quick to build, basic cable management, but holds the TV until we can get something proper. All installed it looks like



Won't be on Grand Designs any time soon but does the job for 50 notes. Cheers for the suggestions everyone, will definitely be revisited after many weekends looking at sofas....

[bodhi]

Sadly Currys didn't get round to delivering the TV until about 6:30pm on a Sunday (only 4 days late), so by that point, my will to tidy the cables up had completely vanished, and wanted to play with the new TV

I'll pick up some of the Cable Management stuff next time I'm in Ikea.

[bodhi]

SuperchargedVR6 said:

I use stick-on white conduit on the skirting board, which B&Q sell.

I haven't seen a pair of those Mission speakers since 1996 ish!

They are still great speakers as well Sadly I don't think mine are too much longer for this world, the driver units have started to perish (the plastic is cracking) - still sound good, but looking a bit tatty now. Still I think 20 years constant use out of a £180 pair of speakers isn't too bad.