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OmniMount TRIA Adjustable 3 Shelf Wall Component System with Cable Management

Many people enjoy mounting flat-panel TV units directly on the wall. The Omnimount Tria gives you the ability to mount 3 supporting components for your home-theater system directly beneath your mounted TV or adjacent to a DLP or tabletop TV. Each shelf holds up to 30 pounds (13.6kg) Does not include TV mount

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Nice look, easy setup for the price. Cable management system is a challenge…
For ~$90, this shelf system is worth it.

No problem setting this up. The instructions aren’t very detailed, but assembling the shelves was fairly intuitive, so this isn’t too much of an issue.

Visually, the shelves are aesthetically pleasing (in plain english, they look real nice). The pictures don’t do this product justice. You can move the three shelves to various brackets on the main mount.

The one drawback is the cable management system. If you plan on running more than two HDMI cables under the plastic covers, take note: carefully tie two cables in a bundle on either side of the cover/center frame (i.e. two cables tied in a bundle on the left side of the mount, two cables tied in a bundle on the right). Otherwise, the plastic covers will pinch the cables when you try to snap the cover in place.

4 Stars Great Shelves to Mount under your TV!
This product does take time to put together correctly, but when finished it is great. It is just enough space to store everything you need under your flat screen tv.

The shipper was extremely fast with sending this out to me. I would for sure purchase another product from them.

4 Stars Shelves slant
I pretty much agree with the other reviewers on the manual and to a lesser degree, the cable management. I thought the cable management could have been better designed by just increasing the channel size, but wasn’t as poor as some reviewers reported. I have the following equipment and cabling in the cable management:

Equipment(from bottom to top):

DVD/VCR combo

HD DVR

Receiver(surround sound)

Cables:

Surge suppressor power strip (mounted on wall above shelving unit behind TV)

Subwoofer RCA to Receiver

Subwoofer power

Component from DVD to DVR

Component from DVD to TV

Power from DVD to power strip

Digital audio(RCA) from DVD to Receiver

HDMI from DVR to TV

Optical audio to receiver

Cat5 from DVR to power/ethernet adapter

Power from DVR to power strip

2 RG6 cables from wall to DVR

My only real complaint is the shelves are not perpendicular to the wall. The wall is good, the mounts of the shelf system are tight to the wall, the shelves just slant forward. Not a big deal if you only view it from the front, but if you are viewing it from either side, its pretty obvious. Overall, easy to install and a good price for what you get.

4 Stars Audio/Video wall mount
Pros: inexpensive; sturdy; contemporary look jet glass/metal finish

Cons: If you have a lot of cables esp >3 HDMI and component cables it is extremely difficult to hide them as the wire concealer given is thin

3 Stars Looks great if only used for the light equipment
As everyone else rated this item; the instructional manual needs work, but the mount is definitely stylish in appearance.

It should be only mounted on the wall studs or concrete walls (which was my challenge to mount it on exterior wall of a Florida home).

I didn’t have any problems with running the cables in the channel provided; just be patient/careful not to nick your thicker expensive cables when you slid them in.

The biggest problem with this product is that it can only be used with light equipments as illustrated in the catalog (light speaker, small VCR, Cable box). With anything above 10-15 lbs the shelves start sagging as it happened with my Receiver surround amplifier of 20 lbs.

The second problem is with the insufficient depth of the shelves; they are shallow and cannot accommodate for the wiring on the back of many equipments. My Dish Network satellite receiver and the amplifier are sticking out so far over the glass shelves that they seem they’re going to fall off any minute.

Bottom line; Buy it only if you want to set it up just the way the catalogs has shown (shallow, light-weight equipments)

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