GloriousSound Desk Pro Professional Studio Workstation in Walnut

The desk itself is a great desk for the money. Easy to assemble, solid, and does a great job. I would highly recommend this desk if you don't want to spend a fortune on more expensive studio desks but need a solid, functional, and feature-rich desk. A couple of things to consider: 1: Amazon only delivered 1 of 2 boxes so I was left with a box of unusable parts. I called and they offered to send a new desk. When it showed up I only got box 2 of the boxes which is fine because I now had all the parts to build the desk, but honestly, it pissed me off and threw my studio set up a week behind schedule and as a professional composer, it impacted my business and schedule. Very disappointing. 2: The desk is super solid but it is made from pressboard type material thus the price. But it looks great, has a solid construction, etc. But just don't expect solid wood. 3: The cable channel in the back is very useful and ergonomically designed. Thank you for that. 4: The only concern I have is how durable the keyboard draw is. Works fine and as designed. But my 88 note MIDI controlled is heavy and full sized with weighted action so there is a good amount of weight on it. Hopefully it holds it. So far so good. Time will tell but I am optimistic it will be fine.If you are looking for an affordable full-sized studio desk that can handle an 88-note keyboard, etc. then this is a great choice without breaking the bank.

good value. good customer service. desk is ok for price

As several other reviewers have pointed out, this unit has a tendency to ship with either missing or broken parts. In my case, the part that was missing was one of the rails upon which the keyboard tray slides. In other words, my desk functions fine as a desk, but the undermount keyboard tray is nonfunctional due to the fact that the part was simply missing. This is especially interesting because the rail that does exist came affixed to the leg where it's supposed to attach. Very puzzling.I contacted Glorious about it, and received the following message:"As we are based in Germany, please contact your dealer for service, repair or replacement. In case your dealer is not willing to help, please reach out directly to our distributor in your country."I did just that, and contacted American Music & Sound (the distributor) about this, as Amazon (the dealer in this case) has no capability of helping me source this part. The lady at American Music & Sound was very helpful, but she noted that the part was out of stock and she'd have to order more. She also noted that it took 3 weeks (!) after the part was ordered for her to actually receive it.This was very disappointing. I bought this desk specifically because I wanted to be able to have an all-in-one workstation and that sliding keyboard tray was the major selling point of this desk for me. So I wrote Glorious again to see if they could help, and I received the foillowing message:"We don't have any insight on this. As stated before, we are based in Germany and all business done in the US is handled by our distributor. This ticket system is for technical support. Our distributor is responsible for service, repair or replacement in your country. Sorry for the inconvenience."Let me get this straight. The company that designed and that manufactured this desk has zero insight into its own supply chain, or its ability to do right by its end users? This is very troubling, and I want to do my part to warn people well away from this company. Do not do business with Glorious, and do not give them your money. They are unwilling to help you even when it is their fault that a defective product shipped to you, and they feign the inability to help when it is clearly within their power to do something about the situation.I also want to note that this desk is made of particleboard, and that when you read the manual for the desk the load tolerances on this desk are quite insufficient to bear the weight of a pretty standard setup. The desk can only bear 20kg up top, which would barely be enough for 2 monitors. And even if your monitors were under 20kg -- they are supposed to stand atop a riser (also made of particleboard, and its supports are made of particleboard) that I don't think can bear 20kg by themselves. Furthermore, the rails themselves look fairly flimsy, and I'm not that confident that it can bear the weight (12.5kg) that is stated in the manual. I furthermore don't know if that 12.5kg is in addition to the 20kg weight tolerance that the desk has, or is a part of it. Finally, the maximum height that the keyboard tray suports is 125mm. This means that most popular 88-key digital pianos (for instance the Yamaha P-125 and P-225, and the Roland FP-10 and FP-30X) are too tall to fit with this keyboard. As far as true digital pianos are concerned, your only viable option will be a Casio.All in all: stay away, far away, from this desk if you value your sanity or your time.

Putting the desk together wasn't too bad. It might be a two person job really, but it took me about two hours to put the desk together. Both parts were delivered at the same time so no fuss there.The keyboard tray is nice and wide, unfortunately though my Synthesizer doesn't fit (Roland Fantom 08). the lowest setting is not enough of an opening for that keyboard. If you have that keyboard and were looking for this desk, know that the roland fantom will sit on the keyboard tray platform but you won't be able to push the keyboard tray in. I'm debating getting a second keyboard to control my fantom with and leaving it on the stand (ultimately defeating the purpose of this desk, but I will make it work as it is furniture at this point).desk would have got 5 stars if it could house my roland fantom 08. I'd really give it 4.5 stars because that's the only aspect of the desk I really dislike, outside of actually putting the thing together. The schematics only look complicated. Take your time.Edit: 10 month update: I this desk to game more than I do produce music since my synthesizer doesn't fit. It could really double as a workbench, there's an incredible amount of real estate. I used an extended mouse pad for FPS games, and I have so much room it's kind of crazy to imagine using a smaller desk.There's not a whole lot of space to mount C-clamp mounts for microphones, so it may not be the best desk for streaming, though I make it work. I really like the rack gear mounts, even though I don't use them. Just having the space to put that type of gear is nice. I fit my sound card and power conditioner in there.Using a monitor mount on the top shelf basically makes the entire shelf useless, outside of storing stuff because your monitors will be in the way.Lastly, the finish is extremely fragile. I accidentally peeled some of it off after peeling up some tape I was prepping for cable management. The damage is usually covered by my mouse mat so I don't notice it.My biggest complaint will be the eventual breaking down and reassembly if I ever plan to move from my apartment. My last desk was extremely move-able very easy to break down and set up, this one, not so much. Keep that in mind

Absolutely beautiful and works perfectly for my recording gear!!!Easy to assemble with a partner, but it takes time.I highly recommend this desk!!!