INTRODUCTION

   When you're out to get a brand new TV and you want to place it right in the middle of the room you've got three available choices, hang it from the ceiling (which may not be easy especially if you have a fake ceiling), place it on a table or mount it on a sturdy stand. This is exactly the case with our office/lab so ever since i purchased a brand new 55 inch 4k TV last year i was looking for ways to place it exactly where i wanted. However, it proved a lot more challenging than i originally thought to find a sturdy, compact and somewhat good looking stand to mount it on so up until a couple of months ago i had to use a table for that purpose. The solution to that problem came recently from the people over at König & Meyer with their 26782 Screen/Monitor Stand which is also what today's review is all about.

   The name König & Meyer has stood for sophisticated and original music accessories for 70 years. The company’s loyalty to its home base of Germany, the high quality and reliability of its products and an environmentally-aware production system are strengths which have firmly established the company in the international market.

   The 26782 Screen/Monitor Stand by König & Meyer (available only in black color) is based on a sturdy 3 piece design (cast iron base, steel rod and universal TV mount) and at the time of its release it was designed for flat screens up to 46 inches in size. This was a concern of mine of course since i wanted to test this stand with our 55 inch flat screen and well 46 to 55 is not a small bump in size. TV screens however get lighter and lighter all the time (for example my 42 inch plasma screen - 2011 model - was 32kg) so after König & Meyer shared with us the maximum weight limit of the 26782 stand (unofficially that is since that number is not listed anywhere on their page) we became certain that this stand was more than a match for our 17.7kg heavy 55 inch SONY 4K TV. Of course, this stand also offers height adjustment ranging from 1.1 meters up to 1.65 meters, internal cable routing and is compatible with virtually every VESA standard available (not just the ones listed online).