I wonder members here have their own Best of 2023 list?? So many things came out last year it's hard to follow.

Mecha KL and PCMOD have them on display with some high end keebs.


What's your preferred plate and mounting style?

For me, I remember getting gmk67 start of the year and thought its my endgame for a while. Blink an eye and all sorts of products just keep pouring out LOL

My highlight is probably modding my "first" mechanical keyboard Keychron V1. Stock with steel is too rigid, after installed alu plate, hmx swifts and loosen the innards a bit, its a fun typing machine now.

They're in Subang, been there a few times, pretty nice folks over there.

Yeah my first is the Corsair too, MX reds K65 TKL. Great for gaming but I eventually hated it later because of how light and how error prone i am LOL.

I only started dabble into modding late last year, but kind of amazed by how popular the hobby become. KL already have wut, 4 physical stores now? And also plenty of helpful and passionate sales/forumers/enthusiast around. Even for those not heavily into typing, I feel this is a simple yet rewarding hobby that just requires a bit of spare time and cheap tools to get you goin.

Can keycaps stem break easily?

I was reading the Noctua keycap reviews and was surprised to see people broke theirs! Even my capalang copy caps dont feel this fragile.

For my Keychron V1, My main target is to make the board more fun to type, less rigid typing feel and more pronounce sounds. These are the mods i've done

-Switches changed from stock blues to now HMX Hyacinths v2 (stock blues are yuck, while Hyacinths v2 are incredibly tight and very nice clear clack sounding
-Plate changed from Steel to Aluminium (made the typing feel and sounds more lively and less dull, but causes board to be much lighter)
-Took out the plate foam (usually I dislike foam so I took them out)
-Added two layers of tape (usually I don't do this but it sounds better here)
-The (plate) screws i loosely screwed them in, also added small pieces of foam in between for a less rigid type feel
-I might have added tiny bit more lube in the stabs, dont rmb really

After these mods I find the board much more fun to use now. I remember I used to dislike it during gaming or hard typing sessions because of how much the hard steel plate feedback to my fingers, now it's comfortable and sounds lovely. The only small con is the lighter weight but I don't mind it since I do bring it around a bit.

Lets see your Tomo!

Could be the lighting but that's an olive green right? naisu

I wish I have a Olive green Jane hahaha

Checked out the Emerala, it also seem to have great color. Hows their keycap quality?

I actually have a green Neo80 TKL incoming, pretty stoked about it.

Nah...in moderation anything can be good

Here's my Neo80!

Anyone here likes clicky switches? Anything to recommend?

Nice, I tried a sample Jade and liked it too. Do you find it tiresome while gaming?

I was thinking of swapping springs in case not used to it, but read that it is not as simple in clickys...

Any tactiles you can recommend?

True. i'm using leftovers keychron blues that i used to hate venomously but after lubing i find like you i actually type and games better because of the honest feedback it gaves lol The whole rattles and high pitch sounds are just bonus nostalgia points, iciing on the cake.

Maybe im just OD on clacky linears and wanted a breathe of fresh air..lets see

To me they aint so bad after lubed.

Sometime they rang like chirstmas bell.. very festival mood i like... hahaha

lol I cant stand my 65% when paying BG3 too..

So far is GMK the brightest sounding caps?

Anyone knows who manufactures keychron caps? Is it related to ePBT?

Also which manu offers surface textures as rough as GMKs?

If you like clack HMX linears are a must try.

Yeah there's Monsgeek M2 and also a bunch of Keychron 100% models. Other than that I haven't seen many full size offerings.

These days I feel there are many cheaper and better switches than Cherries MX, although "better" is a totally relative term form one guy to another lol

Can consider budget aluminium keyboard like these

Leobog Hi75


Sugar65


Zuoya GMK81/87 non alu


Keychron V are valid choice too

This post has been edited by quarantined: Apr 22 2024, 06:40 PM

Nice, Post a review and some pics when arrived.