Hey Scott,
Did you ever buy a new stand? After reading what someone said about the possibility of welds breaking and aluminum pins shearing, I looked carefully at the construction of my QuicLoc double X stand. In order for the stand to collapse, you would have to break eight welds--not one, and for the pin, the one in mine is stainless steel--not aluminum. It's rock solid, doesn't bounce, wiggle and even quiver. Because I use two keyboards, I'm always worried about stability--this one is about as stable as they get. I have looked at some of the single post stands, and while they looked great, I was not real confident about their stability.

UD said something to the effect of using a headset mic being akin to beeing tethered to a hospital monitor. Not in my case. When I hard wired to the mixer, the mic is connected through a 25 foot mic cable with a built in on/off switch at the connector. There are time, however, when I'm hooked up with a remote transmitter that fits in my vest pocket and a 9-volt batter lasts about six hours. Kinda neat for doing a midi of "Fever" and walking through the audience singing to the ladies.

Good Luck,

Gary