You didn't really say much about floor space, only desk space. Do you have room on the floor for a tripod? I have both tripod and round base stands and you can MAKE the tripod trip over but you really need to try, like extending the boom ALL the way and having the boom at too flat of an angle to the main base axis. The closer you are to 90 degrees the more likely you will have a tip. I keep mine as low as I can and that is usually where the boom to center spar angle is 45-ish degrees. When you get up toward 90 you will tip.