I don't have any real experience with pearl or gibralter snare stands, but I was in the local music store the other day and was looking at the Gibralter 9606 snare stand. It seamed to be built well and I really liked the ball type swivel for adjusting the snare angle. The only problem for me was was how short it is. I like my snare pretty high and to get it where I wanted it it had only about an 1" of the upper tube inside the lower tube being clamped. So if I ever wanted to raise it any more I would be out of luck. With a deeper snare (I'm using 5x14) it would not be a problem. Kind of turned me off of it though.
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