Mounting covers slide off easily

These are great speaker mounts. I recommend these even in the face of the following [somewhat questionable] complaints: They were very easy for me to put together, but I have a great concept of three-dimensional manipulation and am quite dexterous. There are a lot of things you have to hold in place with your fingers before being able to bolt it all together. They're heavy for their size and an odd shape, which may make assembly annoying for some. The plastic plates which cover the mounting bracket aren't affixed to the frame in any way. Bass frequencies cause these to slide along the frame, and thus off the wall, very frequently. Even when just listening to spoken word. I'm sure some sticky tack will fix this, but I have none on hand. The second picture in this review highlights this issue. There are holes in the frame through which one can run speaker wire. This is a great feature, but unfortunately while these holes are large enough for speaker wire, they are too small for speaker cables and power cables. I am using powered speakers, so these holes serve me no purpose. The acorn nuts protruding from the base of the mounts lend an industrial aesthetic; which is not in my favor, but only a concern now that I am inspecting the items for this review. They're not horrendous, just make sure you don't scratch the black paint off of them. I wish they had a higher range of motion. In the first picture for this review, they are tilted down as far as they go. Due to the size of my monitor, and wall studs being 16" on-center, this was the only place I could install them. They are aimed slightly above my head; which is not ideal for music production, but works perfectly fine. All in all, this is a great product. Even though there are certainly better options out there, I would recommend these to anyone simply for the price and build quality.

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