MS 2005 : cheap, but not long lasting!

I bought 9 of these for a studio project 1 year ago, the last of the nine has just broken, The hinge between the boom and the stand is terribly brittle and badly designed, Most of the breakages have been through people grabbing the stand and moving the position without loosening the screw. You could say "loosen the screw then" but the breakages have not been through misuse but entirely normal use, and have happened in both live and studio situations. This kind of treatment of mic stands is ALWAYS going to happen with singers and musicians, even sound engineers, and so, one by one, they will break or get broken for you. Unless you're 100% sure that only you will use the stands, adjust them etc, and will always loosen the screw and retighten it before adjustment, spend the extra fiver and get one with a decent hinge!