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Yeah - I've got the telly on the wall and all the rest of the kit on an Ikea coffee table

You're making it tough with the record player though, because you need top access to that. Have you considered wall mounting the telly? From what I remember when you moved, your place is really not going to have partition walls which would lend themselves easilly to running the cables inside, but you can get conduits to mount on the wall for the cables...

Otherwise my background suggests a 19" cabinet. Half height one would still let you pop the telly ontop and a slide out shelf would be fine for the record player doesn't even have to be ugly...
http://www.wedgwood-group.com/19-inch_rack_cabinets.htm
http://www.lashen.com/vendors/MAP/Racks … efault.asp
(another Swedish one) http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjw333/29627416/

The trouble with "DIY" is finding the right "Y". If I could do it myself it would be "DIM".

Worth talking to Richer Sounds, I wonder?

/me ponders...

Pity you ruled out IKEA, you can pretty much make up your own unit etc for most of their stuff (very modular) and seems to be one of the few places doing stands with sufficient space for what you want....
eg
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S19867826

Yeah OK, I admit it, we have a lot of Ikea furniture......but we like it.

I agree - the unit we have ours on is higher than most others we saw in 'proper' shops, but it has been priceless in terms of hindering my 2 year old's efforts to get at the TV.   Also seems the perfect viewing height from our Sofas the other end of the room.

When we got the LCD TV I was all for wall mounting and didn't like the old unit, but with hindsight this is a better option. (we have wallpaper in the front room and I would have had to bury the cables in the wall, it would have meant redecorating.)

Mine is lower (on the Viera stand) but I watch from the comfort of a recliner sofa so I tend to be lower down myself when viewing movies.  I was always put off the wall mounting type by the number I saw when working for an insurance claim evaluators including properly mounted ones.  Some walls just aren't up to the task.

Shouldn't the manual state the safe rear clearance for proper ventilation?

So I presume it's a Panasonic?  The specification seems to state that bracket is for 26-32" sets.

My French is pretty good (my Dad was French), but I've put an inquiry in with Panasonic UK to be absolutely sure.

On the other hand, the whole question has become academic in a sense, because Ikea have dropped the colour that I bought all of my book-cases etc. in, so I can't extend the range at all.

Therefore I suspect my best option is a floor-standing mount for the TV.

What a PITA.

I shall write a strongly-worded letter to Ikea. It won't help, but it will show my support for Royal Mail.

Solid stone walls, in a corner, with a distance of almost 60cm between the back of the TV and the nearest wall.

Eek!

Well, since I can't get a back-panel for my existing stand (which is a chimera comprising one of these with one of these (without the back panel, to allow for cables) bolted to the top with one of these in, which provides an elevated position for the TV, somewhere for the centre speaker to go, and room for the stereo speakers either side of it), I'm thinking of getting one of these (though not at that price, alas!), which I am assured will hold my TV OK.

Looking at the drawing of the stand in profile, I can ditch the shelf if necessary, and have the foot of the pedestal fitting underneath the existing cabinet, with the TV in a position only a few mm behind where it is now. This will relieve the whole construction of the not-as-stable-as-I'd-like 27kg of TV that is sitting (balancing?) on top at the present.

I'd love a better and/or cheaper solution, but it has to be one that doesn't involve a hammer drill...