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Drop CTRL V2 High-Profile Barebones Mechanical Keyboard
$200
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Drop CTRL V2 High-Profile Barebones Mechanical Keyboard
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Nov 22, 2023
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It’s fine if it’s on sale
Which it seemingly already always is. I had a CTRL high profile v1 in purple with stupidfish foam I sold to upgrade to a black V2. I wasn’t happy with the look of my old build, and wanted to use some different keycaps I had, so black matched better. It’s not much of an upgrade from V1 to V2 since I had the foam in V1.
The south facing RGB is an upgrade to some, but I wasn’t using shine through keycaps, so it was moot for me.
I found it odd that the barebones V1 purple is currently listed with a weight of 1.9kg. I figured the V2 would be the same since it doesn’t have the weight included on the product page. I weighed the V2 built at 1.8kg. Pretty disappointing there.
At $200 for the barebones at full price, you can get much much better value elsewhere. I purchased it when it was at $179, and I had my DKC coupon at $40 off and Drop rewards of $35, bringing my total to $104+tax. If I could only have one TKL keyboard and that amount of money, I’d still get a Monsgeek M3.
This isn’t a bad buy, as I’m happy with it, it’s just a bad price for most. It doesn’t even come with stabilizers. Which isn’t that bad in hindsight as bad stabilizers for free is worse than good stabilizers for a price in my opinion… If you have the money to burn and it’s on sale, go for it. If you only can get one keyboard, I’d look elsewhere.
Recommends this product? No
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Oct 30, 2023
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Very minor upgrade over v1
It was nice that this came with some of the improvements that many CTRL owners like myself have performed on our own V1 kits over the last few years. I have added the internal foams from Stupid Fish and Keyboard Kustoms, as well as painstaking applying IPXE or Poron pads to the PCB to my other CTRL's so I had some ready-made comparison units ready to go when I received this version.
The good news is that my unit sounds and feels pretty close to those upgraded versions, at a much lower total price. The bad news is that the only real difference in engineering is the slightly upgraded PCB (which is sort of frustrating as it includes support for screw-on stabilizers, while the case plate does not). This isn't CTRL v2, it's v1.1. It's still solid, heavy and easy to work with. But it is very much showing its age at this point. If anything, it's an advertisement for the CTSM80, which is priced similarly but has options for weights, better case colors/covers, gaskets, different plate materials, etc, etc....
I can't think of a reason to buy this in late 2023. There are so many better options for the price, including those from Drop itself. It's not a bad board, anymore, thanks to the foam, but is suffers by comparison and half a decade of tough competition.
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