Millenium KS-3000 B

Want a keyboard stand that is value for money, sturdy and portable? This one delivers!!
As a keyboard player in an 8 piece band, I wanted something that would give me a smaller 'footprint' on stage. This is my first 'tower' style stand. Let's face it, there are many to choose from. After a bit of research, I found the Millennium KS-3000.
This is cheap (but not cheaply made), rugged and easily portable. It folds easily for transporting in the car and for carrying. (I carry it in a 'speaker stand case').
It sets up in an instant, and supports my 2 keyboards easily, together with a small personal active speaker mounted on the Mic stand adaptor on the top - with no noticeable 'wobble'.
I can route all my cables down the column, secured by the clips - and avoid that 'cluttered' look. I was surprised at how sturdy and stable this stand is. In my opinion it's just perfect. As good as, and probably better than many more expensive stands on the market.

It’s an excellent concept which is especially useful on a small stage where space is tight. It’s stable enough given its small footprint and folds into a very small size. It’s quite heavy so you would expect it to be sturdily made but there are two aspects which really let it down and I’m surprised that someone hasn’t upgraded the design by now. Despite my comments below I do love it and would recommend it but you will have to make some easy modifications.
The first is the handle; it’s a nice idea but it’s not necessary to have a handle that folds nearly flat and most people would prefer a handle that was reliable and comfortable at the expense of it folding. It is attached by two tiny bolts with knurled heads which make it difficult to tighten enough to stop the handle sliding about and causing the wire parts of the handle to dig into your hand. I drilled small indents into the stand to prevent this happening and to mark the balance point. It is very important that the balance point can be found easily. Remember it’s heavy? So when would be the worst time for the tiny plastic pieces holding the wire bits of the handle to the stand to break? Yes, when you’re carrying it. When that happens it hurts and you damage something like the rear bumper of your car or someone’s foot. You can buy spare handles (of the same daft design, look at them!) on this website so Thomann know that they all break.
The second bad point is the way that the legs stow inside the stand with a variation on the ‘ball and spring’ design. Because the legs are not square, the (weak) springs don’t push squarely and get a bit stuck inside so if you try to rest the folded stand upright, a leg or two can drop out and you suddenly have to lift with the entire 7.7kg of the stand on two wires digging into your hand. You might blaspheme.
I will modify my broken handle to a strap design.