I'm admittedly quite curious -- aside from waiting for a TKL board with spring mounting, the price seems high just to try out the concept. With a 5mm neoprene desk mat, some scraps of open cell foam backer rod covering the rear feet of my keyboard, & 2 small silicone bumpers under the front I already get a significant amount of bouce / deflection with a regular board... for less than $20.

$200 for an all aluminum board from a known quality manufacturer, free or low cost shipping, and a novel new mounting system isn't a high price and I mention this in the video. Its in-line with boards like the QK65 and Zoom65. Its just... different.

@@punkshoo I agree that it's a reasonable price for what you get - for someone in the market for a keyboard at that price point it makes sense. For anyone who already has a keyboard of similar quality, though, I'm just not seeing the price as worth it solely to try out the mounting style. This isn't rocket science: adding a few extra springs and and tweaks to the mounting posts should add very little to the wholesale costs of a $30-50 board.

Manufacturing wholesale costs are irrelevant. In the grand scope of 65% metal rectangles there is plenty of value here. If you're content with a $50-100 keeb and playing "princess and the pea" then more power to you but at the end of the day market value is market value. With those sentiments in mind this keyboard isn't aggressively competitive but competitive nonetheless. At $180 these would fly off the shelves.

​@@punkshoo I'd just like a cheaper way of trying out the mounting style before commiting to spending more on another keyboard. Maybe it's just bit of a case of sour grapes, though, since all the weird stuff at the moment for mounting seems to be focused on 60%/65% and I really need TKL. Not sure what's holding back more weird options for TKL -- whether it's just trendiness of narrower options or the increased engineering challenge of balancing flex vs. support for a wider PCB. In the meantime I'll probably just keep on experimenting with more DIY modding options.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Definitely enjoyed building and using the board. Will be great if they do come down on price at least a little bit. If this came in at $20 less it would be a no-brainer.

Thank you for sharing your experiences with the SPR67! Glad to hear others are enjoying it!

Heck yeah! Thanks for sharing and glad it turned out nice for you!

I do not see any evidence of this being painted and the finish looks identical to other white anodized boards that I have on-hand. Do you have some sort of source that you can share to confirm its painted? Akko doesn't typically paint their alu boards so it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the kind words. The lego keyboard is not on my radar atm but if they want to provide one for review I'd be happy to take a look at it.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with support. The board you received probably was just a bad QC issue. The prebuilt Akko Alice comes with the standoffs installed already. However, it shouldn't have been too difficult to just get replacements if they were missed in production or came loose during shipping. I've only had the issue with the 5075S and they immediately sent me replacement LEDs to solder on and said they'd replace the PCB if I couldn't solder. They ask for photos to help identify the QC issue and address it. Or at least that was the case for me. Hopefully if you decide to go with another Akko board in the future you have a better experience. I don't mean to shill Akko but I end up doing it not because they send me boards but because I've personally purchased many of them myself and they have all been an excellent experience minus the 5075S, which was easily repaired for me.

It can go either way depending on how you load it down with foams.

I don't daily drive any board for extended periods of time and these keycaps have been mostly for display. However, one of my more often used boards with Akko JDA Fuji which I use as my gaming board have held up swimmingly. In the year plus I've owned them they look as good as the day I put them on the Top 75.

Can't really go wrong with either option. At that point it just comes down to how much you want to spend.

@@punkshoo Thanks for the reply, great video btw. After 2 months would you say the springs are holding up fine ? Just want to make sure

Yes, the board is still 100%.

and i want it to sound thock thats why I bought the acce cs jelly black lubed

Why can't you lube the stabilizers

I just got the akko top 75 alu It’s absolutely fantastic Great deep sound with some amazon clone pbt keycaps No mods!

The best thing you can do is join a community in Discord, Reddit, or forum and ask these sorts of questions to get more custom-tailored answers. There are far too many questions and responses required to get you sorted than should be conducted via a YT video comment.

What?

@@punkshoo lol, commented on the wrong video 😂

All sophisticated people speak with their hands.

As I said in the video, I agree that it needs to be priced a bit more aggressively for sure, but $150 is a bit low. You have to remember that Akko offers free or very inexpensive shipping and this is in-stock whereas these other alternatives are either group buys and/or have additional shipping costs.

Really?..... That aren't group buys? And are always available?