I had an Apex stand and really did not care for it at all. Two main issues made me send it back...
1) My sustain pedals weren't able to be where I wanted them...
2) The amount of bounce from my fairly lightweight board wasn't acceptable to me...I went back to using my Quic-Loc ws-550
http://www.quiklok.com/catalog/?p=productsMore&iProduct=27&sName=WS-550 ------------------
Bill in Dayton