K&M 118/3 Orchestra Walnut

The wooden plate is not solid, it's laminate. It looks good now, but with just one accidental smack or bonk it's gonna be dented in an ugly way. Think IKEA furniture. Will not age gracefully.

Some of the screws used to secure the mounting slider plate (don't know what it's called, the female part that hooks/slides onto the tripod pole), are visibly scraped, alsmost all metallic instead of black, and screwed in at an odd angle so the heads don't line up with the plate they are securing.

For the premium price charged for this stand I expected more.

Apart from that, it does the job as it should. But you could get a much cheaper stand for that, or an actual wooden one.

this is a beautiful music stand (the walnut desk with chrome stand). and the little shelf is really good for putting my guitar support, tuner, metronome while i'm not playing.
but the stand is not so stable. K&M saying that it shouldn't be like what i'm describing, and thomann saying that it should be like that.
but i fixed it a little with paper and duck tape at the base of the stand and it is less shaky, so maybe i received a defective stand or maybe it's like that. (i never had a music stand that shake so much, not even the really cheap stands that i had, so the answer from thomann is a bit strange).
anyway after i fixed it i'm pretty happy with it.