Shortcut Studio Bridge75 Plus/Max V2 75% Pre-built Mechanical Keyboard

The board loses a star because for all its polish and excellently lubed MMD Princess switches, the stabilizers are a nightmare. I had to take the entire board apart to lube everything because every single key that had stabilizers rattled or ticked or both. The shorter keys like enter and shift needed a lot of lube. The spacebar's stabilizers needed Jesus and a few backup gods, too. That is to say, I have tuned the wire, I have lubed the housing, I have retuned the wire, it's straighter than the horizon line, and the spacebar still ticks.

At this point, I've concluded it's due to the poor-fitting stabilizers being a touch too loose and so even snapped in, the plate-mounted stabilizers look as if they're flush within the cutouts on the plate, but actually have an annoying amount of give, which is undoubtedly part of the--if not the main--reason the stabilizers on the spacebar need a bloody exorcism to stop ticking harder than a grandfather clock. I've managed to reduce the ticking somewhat with proper lubing, so clearly that was a compounding factor, but I would recommend just buying better stabilizers, full stop. The ones used in this prebuilt are cheap and trashy and are lubed just barely more than sun-bleached bones in a desert. Considering how often you hammer the spacebar key while working or typing, it's an absolute wonder keyboard manufacturers even have the utter balls to ship a board with more spacebar stabilizer rattle than a Keychron.

If you don't have ears, it's pretty nice to type on. The rest of the board is solidly built and the ball-catch mechanism makes opening it up and wasting hours of your day tuning stabilizers easy.

Shortcut Studio Bridge75 V2 75% Mechanical Keyboard