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(More customer reviews)Good grief! Where do I begin? This is most flawed design for an AV cabinet anywhere. The unit although easily assembled, looks nothing like an AV cabinet. It's more like a large livingroom cocktail table with storage. As a matter of fact, it's just slightly taller than a coffee table. It's exceptionally heavy (109lbs packaged), and it looks fairly nice, but not as pictured.
Now for the good stuff (sarcastically speaking).
1) There is a major design flaw in this thing. The intructions direct you to install dowels (wooden pegs) to sablize the top. Well, when I attempted to do so, the insertion holes on the underside of the top are a full 3.5 inches off! WTF???? Nevertheless, the top stays securely fastened without them.
2) Next, there is the case of the glass doors. There is no way they can be installed onto the unit. Why? Because the drilled holes for the brackets that hold the doors are behind the front legs. When installed, the legs (which taper at the bottom, and flare at the top), block the doors from opening. The doors open only 1 inch! Another WTF moment!! Again, I managed to get past using them, but it would have been nice to have them installed as in the picture because they they would prevent dust from reaching my AV components.
3) Finally, this damned thing will not hold my AV equipment! Thats right, the fit is so tight that my equipment (a Panasonic AV receiver with DVD/CD changer, Kenwood Equalizer, and Sony CD/DVD changer) had to be flipped, and practically skewered in order to get onto the shelves. Again, the problem is those damned legs at each corner of the unit. They block any attempt to install equipment greater than 15" wide into the unit. Lord have mercy! Unless you have micro/mini components, do not get this piece of particalboard booyah!
Oh, and those glass doors? I used those for the shelves to hold my components as they are a lot thinner than the supplied adjustable shelves. I could at least twist and turn and juggle my AV equipment, and scrape the sides of them and the cabinet onto those (no larger than an) anal-cavity shelves.
I haven't gotten my 42" flat screen TV yet, and man, I am almost afraid to place it on this contraption of a AV shelf. While it looks nice, it lacks any real usability, and is just like I said earlier, a large coffee table with two drawer storage. Oh, and dont plan on placing anything in those drawers either. At least not any DVDs with the cases. You will get perhaps 20 in each of them. Oh, maybe the cabinet is trying to encourage me from maintaining an actual DVD library, and to download video on demand, and be done with physical DVD storage. Not! Furntiure doesn't tell me what to do - especially when this thing can't do what it's advertised to do. I can't return it - it would be a major hassle. So I will suck it up, swallow the $$$ loss, and get the darned entertainment center I saw at Neiman Marcus for $1,100. At least It will be delivered assembled.
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