Kanto Living SP Plus 32' Bookshelf Speaker Stands (Black, Pair)

I've owned these speaker stands for a few weeks now and they're holding up well - If I could give 2.5 stars I would because the stands are heavy, solid, and decent looking with a nice built-in angle adjustment that makes it easy to make your setup look symmetric with your speakers angled in. But, since I can only give 2 or 3 stars, I'd choose to round down because the pair I received suffered from some pretty straightforward and preventable quality issues I don't believe to be becoming of a product in this price range. I bought these stands for use with a pair of Elac Debut 2.0s for my girlfriend's birthday. I'll start by saying I did not understand until after purchasing that these are actually designed for use with Kanto speaker products. I won't fault the stands for this - I suppose I could have done more research (even though I don't see this indicated anywhere in the product description, questions or reviews on this site). They do seem to work with other speakers. Mine are held to the stands by gravity instead of by fasteners, as is the design intent for compatible Kanto products. The real downfall in my experience was when we went to put the stands together. When installing the carpet spikes to the base plates, the fit of the threads felt very tight. We ended up using a pliers wrench of mine to run the spikes in that marred the powder coat on the spikes, which I figured was OK because you won't be able to see them with carpet as thick as ours anyway. When trying to install the angle adjustment plate, however, we found the fit of these fasteners was also tight, except in this case it caused a failure: every one of the button head cap screws we tried to install per the instructions stripped out at the hex with almost no torque applied. We tried both the cheap allen wrench that shipped with the speakers, as well as a higher quality allen wrench of mine that also caused the head to strip out. I didn't want to deal with repackaging and returning the product, so we set them up temporarily without these fasteners installed. In this configuration the speakers were free to rotate and wobbly atop the stands. I decided this was acceptable for temporary mounting of this speaker pair. It might not be acceptable in the eyes of many others. I ordered replacement 10-32 x .250 inch fasteners and washers, which were smaller than what our local hardware store would stock, so I had to wait a week for fasteners to arrive. As an aside, I was surprised to discover by measurement that these speaker stands shipped with inch hardware, when metric is pretty much the de-facto standard for consumer products like this in my experience. I also ordered a 10-32 bottoming tap to chase the threads with. Total this cost me around .30. Upon chasing the threads when this stuff arrived, I discovered the threaded holes weren’t masked prior to application of powder coat, which caused the issue to begin with. I also discovered that the replacement fasteners I ordered did a fine job of clearing out the powder coated threads without stripping out. I spent around half an hour chasing the threads and installing new fasteners and with that done, the stands work pretty well. TL;DR Kanto should at a minimum either mask the threads in these stands’ parts prior to application of powder coat, or not cheap out on fasteners; preferably neither, but definitely not both. Not all customers would go to the length that I did to get these properly assembled. The photos should say it all. I would not recommend these stands for any speaker unless you are prepared to go to the lengths I described above to get them assembled.