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so i love keyboards i love mechanical keyboards and keycron's pretty cool and

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they sent us the q1 which is their new 75 line it's got a badge up top um i

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think you can change that for a rotary knob encoder if you really want to and

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then the other big thing about it is it's got these new gadaron phantom

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switches which i don't know maybe they're cool maybe they're not

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but apparently they're better for RGB only problem is

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they're color specific so if you want the blue ones i hope you like clickies

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the blue ones are clicky the reds are

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i think linear yeah and then uh brown's our largest tactile oh this one's open

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already sweet that's always good

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quick start guide oh okay so we've got just the standard

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stuff here's a switch puller here's a keycap puller

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you probably already have a lot of these already um

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there's an allen key it's probably for opening it what's this please be gentle and make

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sure to align the pins with the socket properly yeah it's pretty easy to bend

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pins but it's also pretty easy to just bend them back if you you know jam it in

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there by accident laser manual

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oh they give you some 3m tape you can always use more 3m tape for sticking

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stuff to other stuff oh yeah oh that's

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nice and heavy i already like it

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so this is the fancy custom LTT one we've got our own little badge and it's

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in like orange and white this is the

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the browns so there's three different switches um they're these new phantom

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switches that are a little transparent i guess so they make your RGB shine

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through a little differently the RGB in this board is south facing which

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is neat it's usually it's usually north facing at least most of my keyboards are

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north facing it means that the RGB led is on the bottom of the switch instead

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of on the top flex is like nothing like it's a you know it's aluminum

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that's fine yeah there's the little switch right there between uh

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Windows and mac so that's cool

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the bottom rubber feet are okay i would have liked having those

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little flippable ones so that you can change the height or angle uh depending

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on what your typing preference is so these phantom switches also come

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pre-lubed which i think is new for gatoron they're usually not um

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so it's just another nice little touch that you're paying for yeah so the

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stabilizers just grew in um i don't know if they've been lubed but

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they sound okay they don't they rattle like a little bit but it's

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actually not that bad so you can probably just get some dielectric grease

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and grease those up yourself if you really wanted to you can take it

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dielectric you can

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yeah so uh i like lubing and filming

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switches and stuff let's take a look and see what this one is i bet you it's the

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browns yeah i actually prefer when the case gives me a little bit more

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play room like it looks it looks great i like how every key goes right up to the

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edge visually but then when you're trying to take them off if you want to

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start on a side it's kind of a pain so usually i have to like start with the middle one yeah it's the browns yes

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there's not much um to see on the switch itself it's basically your average

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switch there's no side clips but the whole thing is hot swap

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it looks like there's room for side clips in here so yeah it looks like you

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can use pretty much any switch you want well i got some

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uh let's throw like a tangerine in there everyone likes the tangerines for some

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reason cool yeah all right you can fit

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basically whatever you want in there let's take a look at the other ones i actually really want to see the blue one

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that's what i'm most excited about i'm not excited about the blue switches i

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hate clickies but i bet you it feels really good even if it doesn't sound

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really good oh before we do that so you get some replacement screws for the

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bottom and they come in this nice like brassy kind of color and then you get some

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extra keycaps of course as per usual so

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if you want to swap between uh Windows and mac

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yeah there's like a Windows key option oh yes this one actually came with mac

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keys just command and option and stuff super

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this is cool i love when they always come with like little extra ones gotta

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love the orange penguin so yeah but the what i'm really curious about is they

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offer not only like a coil

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um but it's got aviator connectors on it too uh this that's this so this the aviator

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connector is this metal doodad here and so what you can do is you just line up

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the pins there we go and then you screw it closed

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cool so it is purely aesthetic um some

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people like them some people don't yeah it's so cool looking basically this

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makes it so that say you plug your keyboard in all right where's the plug on this one

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right here say you plug your keyboard in and then

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you want to just disconnect it but you don't want to have to reach all the way

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back into your computer case to like

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actually fully plug it out you can just unscrew this pop it open and then

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leave that guy there okay let's look at the other ones

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oh that is heavy though that is nice see how much it weighs 3.68 pounds that's

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pretty good uh it's not super heavy i felt like heavier keyboards like if you

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get um some of the really big custom boards with the cnc plates can be like

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five almost 10 pounds like i think my friend's keyboard is like seven pounds

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or something stupid so they also sent us i mean we'll show you the other boards

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too but they also sent us a bunch of different key cap sets i'm not gonna open all of these i'll just open a

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couple of them they've got them all on their website so you can go and check them out before you buy them uh what i'm

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curious about though is how they've packaged them oh yeah this is nice

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oh yeah so these will fit on any switch um

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they're just your typical keycaps they'll go on any cross pattern switch

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so yeah we got switches and a switch opener it's this fancy one from cameron oh it's

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not blue man i was like actually really excited

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that this would be the same kind of like pale blue on the box there that's fine

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this thing looks cool oh looks great yeah it's 25 so this is 25

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dollars that's not bad actually i might i honestly might pick one of these up

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these are the blue clickies you can obviously tell

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they do feel good i actually really like this i think it's maybe um a little much

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extra on the packaging like do they really need to house them in all

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these instead of just little bags i don't know yeah so it's like 15 15 for

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35 switches which is fine normally you can they can run anywhere from like 50

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cents to like a dollar 10 or a dollar twenty per switch cool so now that we got these out of the

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description below another black one i wonder if they only

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sent us black ones actually yeah it is right that's the ShortCircuit thing

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yeah yeah so it's great they sent us an LTT one

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now they've sent us a ShortCircuit version as well i love this custom badge

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i don't know um what you can get for options but i know

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that you can customize a lot of the rest of the board you can even order a bare

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bones kit that is basically just like the pcb the case the foam you have to

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order the switches and the key caps and everything else separately it's actually pretty fun putting these together i

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would i would very much recommend getting a bare bones kit especially if you already have

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your own switches and keycaps i do love the color scheme it's like light blue

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with the purple but yeah i want to see if they sent us a different

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aluminum housing oh yeah this is that space gray

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yeah i actually really like this kind of off-white yellowish tinge

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to it within like the gray on gray and the LTT badge up there it looks great

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it's like just tactile enough that you feel a bump go

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by your preference don't let kikron tell you what to do

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do whatever you want that's the beautiful thing about mechanical keyboards it's all preference

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and style and whatever you want to do it's an expression of yourself here

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we'll try out the browns that all the keyboards came in

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a hundred yeah that's lame okay well whatever but it went better than the

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wooding yeah that was terrible 90 words a minute if you lube and film your

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switches you don't need to film them filming is like a whole extra step that you don't really have to do

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but if you lube and film your switches they'll sound and feel better typically

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so these are double shot abs keycaps that come with it they feel good i i

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prefer abs myself but again it's all kind of feel and preference

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my one complaint though and maybe it's just because these keycaps are so opaque

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but i hardly notice the RGB on this board like from the overhead i can't

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even see it really like i see some minor minor lighting around the side and i was

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actually really hoping to see more of that because one of the things they mentioned for these phantom gateron

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switches is that since they're that more transparent housing uh the light will

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shine through differently so like the browns are supposed to look like coffee when white light is through them the

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blue is like this blizzard color or something like that and then

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the reds are meant to look like lava or something it's a really nice glow that i

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was actually really excited for but you don't see that here

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and you can get software for this to customize both the

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board and how the keys are laid out as well as the lighting itself you can

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customize all that to your heart's content like here let's switch this with

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one of my with my kiwi but yeah so it's lighter like

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it's minimal but you can see how the light shines through this even better so

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i think that um you know you might like the way the brown feels a lot more

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that being said i do think that the red and the blue let the RGB shine through a

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little more which is nice make your own switches yeah make my own cables i

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should just make my own switches right come on yeah regardless of preference though i

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think this is a pretty good keyboard and i would totally recommend this so you

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can get the bare bones kit if you've already got switches and key caps for 150 that's even better

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but then if you don't yet you want to spend a little extra money like 20 dollars you can get it with everything

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included overall the kikron q1

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i really like it i think that if you're looking for a new

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keyboard it's a solid option if you don't want to build yourself thanks for

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watching leave a comment below and which ones would you buy do you want the blues

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the reds or the browns do you have something else that you'd prefer at home

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let us know in the comments