Got an email this morning saying these are dropping tomorrow. They show up in a Google search, but the links don’t work yet. Prices seem reasonable…
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And they purportedly sound better than the Digital Cases desktop stands…
Cheers!
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Hi all. This is Mike Rafferty, founder of KVgear. The stands in that image look an awful lot like ones we’ve been selling for years. The dimensions are almost identical. The layout, number of components, manufacturing methods, and method of assembly are identical. Some of the phrases in their product descriptions are suspiciously similar to ours. And the way they composed their product photos is more than a little similar to ours.
But there are differences between KVgear and the knockoffs. When I designed my stands years ago, I was tempted to copy existing stands. But I resisted the urge and instead went to work creating my own unique designs. Although my designs look simple, it took a lot of time, effort and money to come up with stands that are sized correctly, perform well, can be economically manufactured, and are easy to ship and transport. Another difference is that KVgear stands are 100% made in the USA by us, and we treat our workers very well. We don’t sweat in our shop.
I don’t want to violate the terms of membership here, so I’m not going to provide links to my site. If you want to support innovation, integrity, fair treatment of workers and good environmental practices, please consider buying KVgear stands instead of the knockoffs.
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I hate to hear things like this.
While I personally can’t speak to the facts of this matter, either way, I just want to say that I think it’s deplorable how so many people take advantage of whatever they can, whenever they can, however they can.
Cheers!
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Thanks. 
There’s a big difference between what a person can do, and what they should do.
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KVgear
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Update: Check out our video where we compare the Analog Cases XTS stand to our Utility M1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXOodgmRio SPOILERS: 1) the stands are almost identical except Analog Cases XTS stands have slippery plastic edge trim instead of the extra grippy rubber edge trim on the Utility M1, 2) XTS stand side panels easily become wobbly because the knobs don’t stay tight, and 3) the CEO of Analog Cases bought a bunch of KVgear Utility M1 stands and Expansion Shelves several months ago and a few months later they launched the nearly-identical XTS stands.
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look nice and I have a few of the carry cases for lugging gear around. Fonik are my favorite stands and Jaspar keyboard stands.
