Vondynote Set of 2 Studio Monitor Stands Desk Clamp Desktop Speaker Stands with Isolation Pads

These stands are great. I’ve had them up for several months now, and they’re rock solid. No wobble, no shake — even when I accidentally bump my desk during a caffeine-fueled gaming session. The desk clamp for mounting is super easy to use and feels extremely sturdy once tightened down. It locks in place like it means business — no slipping, no tilting, no drama. The platforms are a little on the large side. As you can see in the picture, my Edifier R1280T speakers have room to stretch out like they’re on vacation. If your desk is small, that might be something to keep in mind. The height adjusts by inserting the pegs through the holes at five different levels. I’ve tried them all, and right now they’re cranked all the way up — mostly because it makes me feel like I’m sitting at a professional audio workstation instead of just avoiding work. Let’s be real: the main reason to get speaker stands is twofold — to free up desk space and make your setup look awesome. And these do both perfectly. My son and his friends think my setup looks straight out of a gaming commercial, which is basically the highest compliment a dad can get.

These are great affordable speaker stands. They are stable and they are mindlessly simply to assemble; there are only 4 bolts and that's it. They easily hold my 5 pound small sats but would certainly hold larger bookshelf speakers.

For the price, this is a well-built speaker stand and thus the four-star review. I feel this is a really good speaker stand. I have some pointers below that may help you choose this or another model, but the quality of this stand is good. I ended up going with the model with cable management opening and a smaller top plate. There are a lot of notes below that might be conveyed as so negative the review should lose stars. Again, this is a quality stand and the notes below are to point out some things that may help sway you in the right direction. Each stand has the ability for a custom height, but I can see why they include set holes and a pin to go through to help secure things at a specific height as the dial and portion to do the custom height might hold but since it is mostly plastic, I don't know if I'd count on it. Notes about the model with smaller top plate and includes cable management holes… ========================================================================== If you are considering this model because of the cable management holes, please note that if you are using studio style monitors that need to feed a 3 pin power and TRS/XLS connectors especially if they are 90 degree like my needs, the cable management openings are going to provide a lengthy process to feed through and I gave up because it is effectively impossible and too cramped. If you are using this for home bookshelf speakers with raw wire speaker and RCA cables, then maybe they will fit. Even if you are able to stuff your cabling through the cable management openings, the manufacture has designed it so that the bottom opening is to face you and not the back wall as evidence that the Vondynote logo faces the cable management opening, so if you want to hide where the cables go into the cable management opening, you'll end up staring at the model number sticker instead of the Vondynote logo. The main tubing appears to be thinner than its cousin model that does not have the cable management, but not to the point of being considered flimsy or losing a star on the review. My studio desk does not have a large overhang lip for the screw on pressure fasteners to secure the speaker stand in place. Even with each locking screen hand and vice grip tightened, I felt there was too much potential for swaying or bumping into the stand and speakers falling. So I dumped the locking pressure portion of the stand. I acquired two M8 1.25 pitch hex bolts and drilled through my studio desk and screwed the speaker stand onto the desk and it is rock solid. I have had success with the desk screw pressure terminals like this speaker stand comes with on other desks for mounting monitors, etc. so this may be unique to my circumstance, but wanted to share that it was possible and effective way of mounting the stands also. The model with the bigger plate and no cable management…. ========================================================================== This model does have a tilt capability but it is very subtle and if you intend on side mounting the speakers, then the tilt will not tilt forward for you (would be a left/right tilt). The main pedestal tubing is thicker than its cousin model (the one that has holes for cable management). The upper stand is very big, and I felt was too big for my JBL LSR305 speakers as there was a lot of plate leftover and felt out of place. If you are choosing this stand for even larger speakers to fill the top plate, it does have a lip on the one side of the upper stand to help ensure the speaker does not slide off.

They are sturdy, adjustable, and perform their intended function effectively.

I bought these to use as a TV stand since they're much cheaper than an actual 2 foot TV riser. They work perfectly. The TV is around 30 pounds and they can handle the look just fine. The matt black finish doesn't stand out too much next to the TV and black furniture.

I wanted to get my Polk S15 speakers off my desk so they could be ear level and also open up some desk top space so it would feel less cluttered and these stands did that job perfectly. They're very stable. Even if I shake the desk a bit the stands have very minimal wobble they just move with the desk for the most part despite being so top heavy with these big speakers so the stand clamps very nice and firmly and the pipe portion stays tight. So when using my mouse and keyboard while gaming or coding I don't have to see them wobble in my peripheral vision. They assemble very easy with pretty much no need for instructions. I glimpsed at the instructions but I already put two and two together. Same bolt for the top speaker plate and bottom clamp so there's very little to figure out. The quality is very solid too and the padding on the speaker plate is a nice touch to reduce vibration and helps keep the sound coming from the speaker instead of the stand. Also the speaker height is very easily adjustable which is nice. Hand turn a knob and lift the speaker plate up then tighten it and you're done. Some issues I have with the stands: 1- there's no real clean way to run the speaker wire without bringing in 3rd party cable management products. I wish they had a hole at the top and bottom of the pipe that holds the speaker up so you can run a cable through it or even better if they put holes down the back side of the pipe with little "wire guiding" clips. Right now my speaker wire just hangs off the back while I figure out a cleaner way to run the wire down. Probably will use some small adhesive clips so it should be a cheap and easy fix and is mostly a non-issue but for the cost, simplicity, and purpose of this product you'd expect a better way to do this as part of the design. Oh well. Not that big of a deal. My second issue is that one of the bolts it came with had a manufacturing defect where you put the hex tool into it to tighten it. It has a warped or almost smeared metal look to the inside of it making it impossible to properly tighten the bolt all the way. With some heavy pressure and slow turning I was able to tighten it enough to keep the plate from loosely rotating though it still is pretty loose compared to the other stand unfortunately. Oh well, I'll figure out the threading and buy one at my local hardware store. Annoying and easily avoidable if they just threw in an extra bolt. Can't imagine it would add more than a nickel to their cost considering even the cheapest products I've bought on Amazon like this almost always come with an extra screw or bolt just in case. All in all I love this and highly recommend it if you want to lift your speakers off your desk. It looks great and made my desktop workspace much more usable and less crowded. Not to mention, the audio sounds much better now that it's ear level and not sending sound below my head. Final note: please ignore the mess in my office after I just complained about no easy way to run the wire in a clean way. I just built my desk and I'm still in the process of doing cable management and organizing!

Great sturdy product easy so assemble. The

Wasn’t too hard to assemble, relatively sturdy materials, and the extra height over what else I compared it to is a plus for my set up. The isolation pads aren’t the greatest, but they do work well enough, definitely something I will consider upgrading in the future. My biggest gripe is that the clamps on the bottom aren’t very wide, the speakers can easily wobble a bit. Something with a wider base would be a better option. They don’t wobble much while in use really so it’s not a huge deal. For the price it’s a good way to improve your set up would recommend to someone. The clamps might also eat into your desks finish a bit, the pads on the bottom clamps for me wore off pretty quick. (Note I have KRK Classic 5s mounted on these.)