These are just as wide. I also own the Yes4All saftey arms for my rack too. So warm and comfortable. These boxes are so cool! (Theres a finger hole on the rear of the shaft which helps a lot. I got these literally for just because. It works just as well as the original one. It feels like aluminum or another similar lightweight metal. The microphone is hot garbage and resulted in me needing to search for comms elsewhere. This anchors work at 50/50.