Good weight, solid build, and a joy to type on. Volume knob works perfectly. Would definitely buy again. Not a big lights guy though, they work for me, but depends on your needs.
You really are getting an amazing keyboard and deal here, fully military grade aluminium, a beautiful brass weight, Holy panda X switches (Pretty expensive tactile switches), and decent PBT keycaps. Can’t forget the Knob and the LED’s too, I also really liked the LEDs’ strip on the bottom of the case.
My personal preference of a typing experience are LINEAR switches, while modding the keyboard I noticed some very nice key features that DROP has implemented in the keyboard after receiving very constructive criticism from content creators and enthusiasts alike.
With that being said, after modding this keyboard, it’s a masterpiece. I absolutely love the Brass weight and the high quality finish feel it has. The typing experience is amazing and yeah you can’t forget about the knob
Really great keyboard... once you put in the work.
My first impressions with the board were generally good, but I grew tired of my first build pretty quickly. First, if you can, TRY to buy this board barebones. The switches that come in it are really REALLY not great. After I played around with different plates, dampening methods, and switches... here's what I ended up with recently.
POM Plate
Lubed Gateron Smoothie switches
SA Keycaps
Foam stuffed in the gap between the weight and the bottom case
Good keyboard. Additional mods make it even better
Love the lighting and solid feeling of the keyboard. The key stroke sound isn't the best I've heard but I've added extra foam inside and made it more thud the way I like it. Mod'ability is great
I've always somewhat questioned the value proposition of Drop products. You can get keyboards equal to, or better than the Sense75 for much less money... However, the problem with those is often bad support and/or QC.
I was perfectly happy with my Sense75, then one day after turning on my PC I heard a pop and the keyboard stopped working. I opened it up and lo and behold the CPU had blown (quite fantastically that is, there was a hole in the die). I have to note here that the motherboard, USB port and the cable are all still fine, so are all the switches on the board. It's only the CPU that blew.
Well obviously I then contact Drop support in the hopes of getting a new motherboard to switch over to (as there are none listed on the site). The response I got was not what I expected. I did not get the chance to get a new motherboard. Instead they offered to send a whole new unit to replace the old one at no cost.
I live in Finland, so I am accustomed to this kind of service. However Drop is a US based company. I have not once had a US based company willingly offer to send a replacement unit, even bearing the shipping costs. Especially after a relatively long time since purchase (11 months in this case).
Needless to say I am very happy with my purchase. Based what I've seen here I will continue to use Drop, even if the pricing is a bit higher. When I bought this keyboard I got it for 150€ on sale (not including shipping and taxes on this side). I think at that price the quality you get is somewhat comparable to other similar products... however now after this whole situation, the keyboard has basically paid for itself with the amazing support I've gotten. I thus think the pricing is wholly justified!
TLDR:
Keyboard itself is somewhat comparable to other products in it's price range (I got it for 150€). Especially since after basically a year has passed from when I bought the board, the availability of lower priced products has massively improved.
CPU of the keyboard blew after 11 months, I asked for the opportunity to get a new motherboard, instead Drop offered to send a new unit at no cost.
This fantastic support I think validates the small "Drop tax" that you pay for products here.
I will end the review by noting the obvious. This whole situation should not have happened at all, the shipping times from Drop's warehouse to over here in Finland are around 2 weeks. During that time I have to use an old membrane keyboard instead. A keyboard just should not blow up after using it for 11 months. However these things do happen, the shipping is just my fault for using a US based company, and in this situation Drop itself handled the support tasks expertly.
I'm just now getting into custom keyboards now after years of exclusively using Razer. This keyboard has a nice typing experience out of the box and the wrap around LED strip is a nice touch. I'm excited to dig deeper into how I can customize the look and feel of this keyboard further!
This keyboard is good to go right out of the box. Of course you can do things to mod it to improve it, but it already is great as is. Especially considering the current price point or if you're lucky to pick it up for $149 like + DKC discount like I was able to.