The Kelly Shu Mount

I am the proud owner of one Kelly Shu Mount. I've been eyeing this thing for a while, since DW has pretty much dropped the ball on trying to sell any May Mounts. I've never seen a company so intent on trying to kill one of their product lines....but anyway.
I love the Shu Mount. Easy to order, quick to arrive. The invoice even contained a nice little "handwritten" note from Mr. Kelly. Great instructions, which I promptly threw away. I'm a man.
From the moment I started taking the front head off, the mount was installed in less than 30 minutes. I went with a pretty standard installation. I waited till the next day to install my AKG D112. I had to purchase a soldering iron and learn how to use it. But even that went well. I did use a much hardier mic cable and it took some doing to fish it through the air vent, but the entire design and look has a certain elegance to it.
The only change I would make is to add a mount for the male XLR connector that would bolt to one of the claw mounts on the drum. I've checked around and none seem to exist. My cable dangles on the floor and I don't much care for that. Otherwise, it's a good system.
I couldn't wait to try it out and got my chance pretty quickly. I had already decided to take a much smaller kit to the next gig, but once the Shu mount was installed, I just had to take the big kit to check it out. I'm told the sound from the kick was incredible. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the D112, but the shu mount places the mic in such a sweet spot, it would be difficult not to give it a lot of credit to Kelly for the astonishing sound. Better than a mic stand in front of the drum head...which I've always hated.
The sound guys love me now, because we won't have to fight about putting a hole in my resonance head. I refuse because DW's heads are sonically vented for optimal sound quality. Plus, they can blame me if it doesn't sound good....even though it's there fault. By the way, I installed a "holz" system in one of my Yamaha kits...and it rattles...loudly!
The only reason this device doesn't get a 10 from me is the lack of a mounting device for the cable...otherwise it's perfect.