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(More customer reviews)Purchased this Sanus HDTV stand without considering the rear panel access to my components during hook-up. The quality of materials and construction is heavy-duty and superb, and the finish is a beautiful semi-gloss black. Unfortunately, it was missing the instruction manual, but the design was simple and straight-forward, so I did not need the manual at all. Once I began hooking up my components I designated for this audio/video stand (3 x HK Signature 2.1 power amps, B&K Reference 50 S2 prepro, Sony BDP-1000ES blueray player, Sony DVP NS-9100ES universal player, HK DMC-1000 digital media center, Yamaha DSP-3000 processor, ADC SS-325X spectrum analyzer/equalizer, DBX 3BX DS impact restoration unit, DBX 120X DS subharmonic synthesizer, Musical Fidelity X10 v3 tube buffer, Plus N55 NR unit, and Tice Power Block III Signature Series) I quickly realized that I had not taken into consideration the accessibility to the rear input/output jacks of my components. There are only 4 small rectangular holes through which power cables and signal cables can be routed. If you have a combined digital/analog cable routing as I do with a 13.3 Klipsch speaker system, you might as well forget it. The holes are so small (2.5" x 1") that I can't even fit my hand through it and they could only accomodate a limited number of rca/coaxial/toslink and hdmi cables... which leaves no room to route power cables... and I do not like to have signal cables so close to power cables in the first place. Frankly, this Sanus HDTV stand is beautiful and well-built, but cannot accomodate all my rca, hdmi, coaxial, and optical monster cables I need to route through the back of the stand. Either I am going to have to remove the perforated rear panel somehow, or I am going to have to sell this unit locally since the shipping cost back to the seller will be expensive. If only someone had mentioned this limitation in a review, I would have opted for another stand with an open back. I give an initial review of 3 stars for exceptional build quality that has been severely hampered by rear panel access.
----------------------- Update 12/21/2010 ------------------------
The perforated rear metal panel is so well bonded to the metal frame that no matter how hard or long I pounded on it with a rubber mallet, it did not budge - once again, a testament to the exceptional build quality of Sanus products. I did find a solution that seems to work for the most part: I moved the two lower glass shelves forward by about 1/2" and cleared space for audio/video cables and power cables to be routed through the space. I had to purchase additional rubber feet to be placed in strategic positions on the shelf supporting frames, but because of the way the stand is designed, the support of the glass shelves by the metal frame is still 100% after this change in positioning. I give a revised final rating of 4 stars simply because of the inconvenience of the rear panel access, otherwise, it would be a solid 5 star rating. Sanus could easily improve upon this design by ENLARGING the 4 existing routing holes, as well as adding TWO MORE larger and wider routing holes in the center of the each of two middle shelves to clear space for components in the middle of the shelves. Also, it should be removable for those who opt out of using the perforated rear panel. (Hint, hint. Are you reading this review Sanus?)
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