Kanto ST28 28” Stands at $99.99 for Bookshelf Speakers

Where these stands fit in your listening setup

Amazon price

$99.99

Customer rating

4.4

Customer reviews

462

Typical price over 90 days

$146.37

Difference

$46.38 (32 percent)

A pair of bookshelf speakers on a desk or low shelf often sends sound at your knees instead of your ears. The Kanto ST28 28” Universal Floor Speaker Stands raise each speaker to a height where the drivers can line up with your seated listening position. That matters because the stand is the cheapest way to change how a speaker couples to the room, and Kanto builds the ST28 specifically to reduce vibrations through steel tubing.

We'd consider the ST28 for anyone who already owns speakers rated up to 30 lbs each and wants them off the furniture rather than on it. At $99.99 a pair, this pricing sits below the typical price over the last 90 days of $146.37, a savings of about $46.38. With 462 ratings averaging 4.4, plenty of buyers have already tried this route.

Routing cables and leveling the pair on your floor

The ST28 is a passive stand, so the signal chain still runs from your amplifier or receiver to each speaker. What the stand changes is the path the cable takes to get there. Kanto cut a wide channel through the steel column so you can feed speaker wire, and even a full-size power cable if your speakers are powered, down through the column instead of across the floor.

Each column ends in feet you can adjust. On carpet you can switch to the included spikes, and on hard floors the rubber feet keep the stand from scratching and let you level each speaker. If you use powered monitors, check the size of the connector on your power cable before you commit, since the column has to pass it through.

Which rooms benefit and when to look elsewhere

These 28-inch stands suit a living room or a dedicated listening corner where you sit in a normal chair and want the tweeters closer to ear height. Moving speakers off a shared surface also gives you more freedom to pull them away from the wall, which is how you cut down on the reflections Kanto warns about.

We would skip the ST28 if your speakers weigh more than 30 lbs each, since that is the stated limit, or if you need a 34-inch height instead of 28. The white finish in this listing is also a fixed choice, so measure your speaker's footprint and make sure the top plate and the white MDF base fit the space you have in mind before ordering.

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