The top plates, fastened with only one screw, were missing essential washers, making them extremely wobbly.

I know this because after carefully screwing on the top plate, it came off in my hand - small metal cup and all.

The top plates, fastened with only one screw, were missing essential washers, making them extremely wobbly.

The juncture between the top and bottom plate is a bad design and you risk the loss of your speakers

The welds were off, the screw holes for the spikes were misaligned so couldn't be screwed in, the weld drops had to be filed down on the base to have them stand level, the top plate didn't instill confidence with one screw and bendable metal, and the whole stand was rather wobbly at anything beyond the base-plus-one-hole in height