You are talking drum racks, right?
I've owned 4 different racks. I've also made my own out of PVC piping for my first ever homemade electronic drum kit back in the mid 90's. Wish I had some pix of that contraption. LMAO.
A square tubed Pearl, and a round tube PDP, currently. I did have a Hart Dynamics but I suspect it might have been Gibraltar.
The reason I'm going to refer to them by tube shape is important. The biggest difference I found was when using the round tube you have full motion and positioning from front to back or perpendicular to the support tube. With the square tube style the clamp is rigid in one of four (sides) positions. This can be over come but when I'm used to the round style and then try to align boom arms or even the tom clamps, on the square tube type, you lose some tilt function that you become used to with round tube types.
I've also heard that round tube type clamps can slip. Mine never have in 6 years of use. So I can't say that is a problem.
Another factor is I have been using Gibraltar add on boom arms and they don't clamp very well to the square tube racks. It can be done but not as nicely as on a round tube support.
Other than that, the racks perform the same and are all similar in price that one will not stand out above and beyond the rest.
I've hauled both styles to gigs and it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. I will say that the Pearl rack I have is the largest one I've seen for length of support bars, so you do end up being pushed forward from a back wall more so than with the PDP, due to the length of side bars.
Hope this all makes sense.
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