The most stable, modern design and yet cheap boom stands on the market, period! The new design of the legs is great, but most significant change is new clamping mechanism between sections - Gibraltar like, Pearl like, that thing is unbreakable, nor the pipe can be damaged by overtighting like this can happen on Yamaha stands. The only thing I'm missing are the memory locks. Yes, the cost per stand is so low that you have to spent some extra to upgrade with the ML28C (for the base), ML222NT (middle section), ML191N (top section) and ML12 (boom arm). Yes the new design is not compatible with both ML222NT and ML191N but since they are 22 and 19 mm inner diameter they'll do just fine and they can be used more as a memory, than as a lock clamp.