It is not that easy to assemble, you have to be careful not to split the wood.

I split the wood on both trying to line up the parts and screw them together

Good stands for the price, the wood is a little weak so be careful when putting screws in, make sure they are centered and do not over

The "wood" split in a couple of places on mine when I screwed the pieces together

Needless to say, on one end of two seperate side posts, I still managed to split the wood, aarrgh

The wood is all cheap-feeling particle board, held together with a few cheap wood screws

If you want something made of solid wood, you'll end up paying much more.

I can see how you might split the wood if you are careless and cranked these screws in, but that's not what you're supposed to do

The only issue I had, was I did not line up the speaker platform, and one of the support beams properly and the screw went close to the edge and cracked the wood.

The wood is so cheap that it breaks when I screw them together.

Even though I had read several online reviews that warned against screwing the top and bottom plates too firmly into place, I couldn't believe how little effort it took to split the wood on the uprights.

But I do think that these could potentially split with some solid weight on there (like a medium to heavy surround speaker, like the ones with the solid wood box around a 5+" speaker

If your not careful when assembling them though, you may crack some wood, so no power tools

I have assembled a lot of wood products and these are almost impossible to assemble without splitting wood.

The holes for the wood screws are pre-drilled but it is very easy to split the wood on the upright panels (when I say "wood" I mean particle board.

The wood in both of my speaker stands split as soon as I drilled the screw through the base of the unit into the upright supports.

You don't have to use the foot pins if you have hard wood floors.

For those that are whining on their reviews about "It's not wood" or "It split when I put it together", wake up

Otherwise it will split the wood.

The only issue I had with assemble was one of the screws slightly split this wood but not enough to in any way be considered a hazard

This product is alright except the fact that the wood is not real wood and it cracks if you screw nail on the wrong spot.

The wood of the speaker platform is somewhat rough.

Wood can crack if you screw the nails on too tight (be careful and go slow)

Descent stands, however, as another reviewer did, I split the wood on one of them while putting in the screws.

Just make sure not to over tighten the screws or you'll crack the wood

Powered screwdrivers could cause you to split the wood.

only down side to these stands is that they aren't made of solid wood so you shouldn't put more than 15lbs on them.

In the case that you do not carefully align the upper and lower plates with the pilot hole, you WILL split the wood and cause trouble for yourself.

But if you do that, the wood will likely split which is what happened to me.

It will crack the wood

The wood is a bit brittle and a small crack appeared when screwing in the base

I was so worried about splitting the wood that I actually started drilling out the holes to one size larger than they were on one of my stands.

You risk over tightening and splitting the wood

if you do this the wood will split.

but... it's built with cheap quality wood.

It is very easy to crack the "wood".Also, the hole that you are suppose to use to bring the speaker wire up through the top was way to small for my speaker wire, though the bottom hole worked

One, when putting them together make sure you have them the right way or you will crack the wood

The wood is particle board so beware of using power drills, if you do put it on the most forgiving setting before drilling you will crack it with to much power

The "wood" will split.

Be careful in putting these together as the wood may seem to split if the screws are not straightly aligned from the hole

In the end I had NO split "wood" at all.

People have complained about splitting wood with power tools

No matter how slowly I screwed in the screws, the wood would slightly split.

I was done before the end of the first quarter and did not split the "wood" ANYWHERE

Just screwing in the screws cracked the wood

After reading many of the other reviews, it appears that Sanus listened to them and made the holes in the product bigger so that the screws don't crack the wood.

Assembly was easy, but the wood was kind of cheap

I like wood.

the wood splits when you assemble the stands and the platform for the speaker are to small

The wood cracked slightly when screwing in one of the screws

If you're reasonably careful about getting the screws in straight, the fake wood (MDF) won't split.

Hope this helps...go slow, lube screws and use hand tools, because these are very unattractive if you split the wood and probably much weaker too.

They are made from particle boards so they are not solid as real wood.

Even with some reviews talking about how the wood splits or problems with

Otherwise, you will risk splitting the wood (or whatever you call what they are made out of).

and if you are off by just a little, the wood is so cheap that the screw begins to split it open