might be a dumb question, but how does the Shure one work? None of the cheaper models have any flexibility in positioning, except side to side spacing (not a huge fan of the bendable bar, its ok). why you have to spend $400 or more to get simple features they all should have sucks.
Thanks for helping me with my research.
I don't really understand why you say you have no control over positioning. Your mic mounts go on the stereo bar, and then your mics go into the mic mounts. Angle the mic mounts differently on the stereo bar and you have different mic angles, push your mics forward or backward in their mic mounts and you have different near-coincident mic spacings, or with the K&M bar I linked, you can get different mic spacings by moving the mic mounts along the t-bar.
Without pictures, but using keyboard symbols as seen from above (horizontal line being the t-bar, angled or vertical lines being the direction the mics are pointing):
\_____/ can give you a 90 degree angle between the mics (maybe less than 90 using these symbols, but you get the idea)
|______| point your mics forward and get 0 degree angle between them, but with some spacing (adjustable on the K&M bar)
__/_\___ move your mics towards the center and point them each in at 45 degrees and you get 90 degree XY (might need a riser or put one mic on top and one below)
Don't pretty much all of the t-bars give significant flexibility on angles between the mics and mic spacing? I can see that the cheaper t-bars don't show you what angles and spacing you have, but they all seem to allow a wide array of angles and spacings.