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[Curtis McGill]

What are some recommendations for boom microphone stands? We have gone through many cheap ones with our church plant and I am tired of them breaking. I guess you can call it a lesson learned the hard way.

I've been looking at something like the K&M 210/9. Am I headed in the right direction? Is there anything else I need to be looking at?

Thanks!

[dick rees]

What are some recommendations for boom microphone stands?

I've been looking at something like the K&M 210/9. Am I headed in the right direction?

Thanks!

Yes, you're headed in the right direction.  I would also recommend that you get or build a decent mic stand case to keep them spiffy.  Sections of the lighter duty PVC pipe built into a plywood box with casters on the bottom will let you handle them without throwing them all together in a bag.  They'll stay good looking longer, won't catch on each other and bend the clutch levers or screw adjusters.

[Frederik Rosenkjær]

In my experience there's K&M mic stands and then there's absolute crap. I have heard tales about a few other makers of mic stands that are ok, but I have yet to see them for myself. I know of nothing in between. No spectrum between K&M and shite.

And I'm not a dealer of any kind of stands.

[David Parker]

What are some recommendations for boom microphone stands? We have gone through many cheap ones with our church plant and I am tired of them breaking. I guess you can call it a lesson learned the hard way.

I've been looking at something like the K&M 210/9. Am I headed in the right direction? Is there anything else I need to be looking at?

Thanks!

http://s926.photobucket.com/albums/ad106/brodave2/mic%20stand%20case/

[David Parker]

Yes, you're headed in the right direction.  I would also recommend that you get or build a decent mic stand case to keep them spiffy.  Sections of the lighter duty PVC pipe built into a plywood box with casters on the bottom will let you handle them without throwing them all together in a bag.  They'll stay good looking longer, won't catch on each other and bend the clutch levers or screw adjusters.

http://www.audiopile.net/products/Cases/M_Series_Mic_Cases/MC-770/MC-770_cutsheet.shtml

[Steve Milner]

The 210/9 is a great stand... I know a guy who also has a number of stands with the same boom (two section telescoping) on the model 199 tripod base, which is also telescoping. These make for great in-between stands (they still go to full height obviously) when a full size is too big, but the super low stands are too short. They fold down really small too for transport... which is pretty groovy.



 

[dick rees]

http://www.audiopile.net/products/Cases/M_Series_Mic_Cases/MC-770/MC-770_cutsheet.shtml

Thanks, David.  That's the link I was looking for.

[Tim McCulloch]

Atlas round base stands; K-M booms and tripod base stands.

[Peter A Viehoever]

I've been looking at something like the K&M 210/9. Am I headed in the right direction? Is there anything else I need to be looking at?

Thanks!

They seem lovely and durable though sometimes a round base is handy if stage space is an issue.

This gun case, though it draws odd looks sometimes, will hold 4 collapsed K&M 210 stands in padded comfort:

http://www.sportco.com/store/pc/Doskosport-Double-Scoped-Rifle-Shotgun-Case-790p43766.htm

depending on your storage and hauling needs.

[Doug Fowler]

Atlas round base stands; K-M booms and tripod base stands.

What Tim said.  I don't recall _ever_ seeing anything other than KM booms in a pro system, except for Beyer for some period of time. 

The Beyer pieces were made by KM IIRC (or not ;-).

Here is yet another example of "buy once, cry once".