I sit in on a guys kit fairly regularly that has a Yamaha stand. It's light and responsive. He can wail on things and has never had trouble with it. Only thing he pointed out the other day was that the pull rod is a unique size and you have to use the Yamaha clutch.
I have a Pearl cam action stand and love it. It's heavier than my friends Yamaha, but very stable and the action is great. It's a bit lighter than the similar DW9000 stand.
I used to have a DW5000 stand which felt good. It wobbled around more than the Pearl if you were tapping heel up on it. But it broke on me. Fortunately at home and not on a gig. I took it apart to see if I could fix it and was dismayed at how the bottom of the pull rod is put together. There is a hollow rod that the top pull rod screws into which is a nice heavy duty way to do it instead of having multiple threaded collars in the stand. The bottom of this tube bears against the spring. Another good idea rather than something stuck to or drilled though the rod and taking the brunt of the spring force. Another 1/4" rod is threaded into the bottom of this tube and goes though the spring and out the bottom to attach to the pull chain. All well and good, except that to keep that rod from turning and loosening up, there is a roll pin that goes though both the tube and rod. Which wouldn't be so bad except that they put the pin at the bottom where all the load is. There is maybe half a thread before the pin cuts the cross section of the rod in half. The rest of the threads above that do nothing for the strength of the system. The pin and the weakened section of 1/4" shaft bears all the load every time you step on the pedal. It would have been so easy to have a slot in the top of the shaft and a pin only providing turning resistance. The middle tube has plenty of material to manage the hole for the pin without being weakened. I wrote DW about this when I inquired about how to get a replacement part. In the meantime I put a new lower rod in that I cut and threaded myself and left the roll pin out. I thought about drilling the middle tube higher up, but I just needed it back together for a gig. Put Loctite on it and it was fine for the month or so it took to get a replacement. The replacement was the same way. So I put it back together and sold it. I told the guys at the consignment store about it to warn them about other DW5000 stands they might take in. I've heard of some other folks having these break on them. Simple problem, easily solved. DW has this bulletproof reputation, and the other DW hardware I have has been fine. It was just disappointing to find a stupid design mistake in a place where you couldn't see it like this.
I should mention that I'm an engineer by day and have worked on airborne stuff where we tested it to death on giant shaker tables and the like. So I'm familiar with stress concentrations and reliable hardware design.