Proline PL700Z Folding Z Keyboard Stand

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Almost Good Except for Serious Design Flaw!

This review is of both the main stand and the second tier attached. I didn't find stability/balance to be an issue like some other reviewers. It will be prone to tip without weight of lower keyboard so obviously don't use the second tier without having a keyboard of some substantial weight on the lower tier. I actually thought it was a neat design. I liked the flexibility of the width adjustment. I thought it went together easily. The biggest problem is in one or two design flaws and it is a deal breaker. I would not recommend this stand to anyone. The knobs that hold the stand together are going to break. They are a huge weak link in the design. Maybe if you are just going to put it together one time and didn't already receive a stand with broken knobs you may be fine. The main keyboard stand did not appear to have been opened yet but one of the knobs was already shattered. The second tier box was totally shredded at the top and open so I'm guessing someone returned the unit already broken. On that unit one knob was broke off and the one for width adjustment was stripped. Someone could have seriously abused the unit and then returned it. But after seeing how these knobs are made I'm not surprised that someone broke them. Another thing that was confusing was there appears to be holes in the height adjustment piece on the main stand. However, the knobs do not fit these holes so to me it only seems like these holes would weaken the stand. OnStage sells a very similar unit with similar price. Perhaps that one is designed better. The onstage has the advantage of second tier hight adjustment and also I think being able to adjust the second tier front lip height. It really a shame that a potentially nice stand was ruined by the company not spending a little more time making the key component that will hold the keyboard together better quality.