For the price you can't beat this boom stand for light use. I am using it on my amateur radio and it serves the purpose without breaking the bank.

Got this on a sale for like 8$? Only thing I had to do was grab an adaptor for my camera to use it the way I wanted to, but it makes video calls much easier. The main goal was to use it for spell table which I have yet to do, but with the mobility of the arm, its going to be great!

study and serves the purpose.

Very light duty and wouldn't hold my condenser mic adequately. I use a regular floor mic stand and it good. This might be OK for a small mic but very light duty.

Works really well for Blue Ice mic. Holds it up without any problems.

If you're planning to use this in a fixed environment and not moving it to live gigs all the time, it's a good enough stand for most handheld microphones. But I DO unscrew the clamp and move it 3 or 4 days a week to gigs. Well, I used to. It's broken and will no longer hold itself up let alone with a microphone in its holder.

easily available microphone

It's not bad, just won't hold a large diaphragm condenser mic well unless you grab a couple of pairs of pliers and tighten the bolts as tightly as possible. Even then it slips. It would probably be ok for a small diaphragm or light dyanamic. Even a Shure SM-58 is a little too heavy at certain positions.

Bought this thinking it would be a good budget desk stand for my RE20 (horrible idea) and bought the monoprice suspension mic stand, after placing the suspensions stand on the arm the metal clamps began to malfunction and I can no longer fit the metal stand pole inside of the clamps

I wouldn't put a heavy mic on it, or a mic above $200.

The mic clip it comes with doesn't work well with thin mics. Then again, a clip is around $5 and the next mic stand that's not some mystery brand costs around $50. The base of the stand is slightly wobbly as well, but strong enough to hold the likes of a live mic

This is the only cheap stand that has any known brand under $50 I could find. It does the job pretty well, and I don't feel like my mics are in danger.