now don't take this out of context but i really like big knobs come on i see what you're typing
but just like please stop uh howdy hey hypiotech here and today i'm gonna be building a really cool
board i know i sound bummed out but it's a cool board the polygon 65. now this might be one of
the best sounding boards i've ever touched so stick around and find out speaking of sticking
around you should definitely hit that subscribe button because 74 of you aren't subscribed and you
know what howdy hey 26 of you that are subscribed yeah they got an extra howdy hay you better hit
the button now i'm not gonna waste your time here and we're just gonna get right into it
so rottwitt the creator of thepolygon65 sent me this board to take a look at and i do have to
send it back full disclosure as well they did sponsor my stream where i built this which you
can click on the top right and a giveaway oh yeah i guess i should probably mention that anyways if
you're watching this video within a week of it uploading i'm giving away two of these boards
and you can check it out with that link down in the description i can see it now you're saying
hypio you wasted my time with that giveaway ah i won't even win whatever so the polygon 65 is a
65 keyboard and you've seen the b-roll running as i talked about random stuff it's going into group
by august 20th of 2021 and it'll come in at a very hefty 530 us dollars or 550 us dollars with foam
now that's a pretty penny and we'll talk about whether or not that's worth it later but first
let's talk about the color options so because i like knobs i've got these handy little knobs
here to demonstrate the colors that the board comes in note that the big knobs are what you'd
actually use on the board and the others are just color samples personally i think the rose gold
is incredible and i really want one of those but let's get on to the build so any good board needs
a pcb and because this is a 65 keyboard that means it still has the arrow keys which is pretty good
also this pcb makes me very happy why does it make me happy you might ask because it's hot swap has
rgb for epic gamer time and has an encoder knob oh also it just looks cool yeah magic
thanks for cutting me off hippia very nice oh wow whoa
that's sick so this board consists of four major parts the top the mid piece the wedge and the
weight and this is the wedge which has little acoustic chambers also holy heck this board
is incredibly heavy and comes in at 6.6 pounds yeah let's open up this middle piece oh i think
i forgot to shill for the wow stick so wow link in description if you want an electric screwdriver so
this is the top piece and this board uses silicone gaskets that you would have to install yourself
these are not very squishy and they don't necessarily provide flex they're mostly
to reduce reverberations and they help make the board sound a little bit better however i do think
it makes the board feel a little bit less harsh which is nice you know what else is nice the usbc
daughter board which i'm not entirely sure what they do but they're helpful and the plate which
we haven't talked about yet so this board only comes with an option of a brass plate and it is
dummy thick it also uses four of these pins that keep the board secured to the rest of the board
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anyways you know what i can't explain stabilizers i use durock v2 stabilizers and you can check them
out at the link down in the description these were lubed with crytox 205 g0 and i'll give
you a sound test later but there you go they're installed because this is a 65 you'll only need
four stabilizers in total and then i install the plate and pcb film now i really like muted sounds
so i'm gonna use all the foam i can but you could choose to go without it i really like these cute
little cutouts and it was like super satisfying to install the foam like it just felt nice
but that also means i can't fill it with play-doh this episode sorry guys but maybe hit that like
button if you want me to fill a board with flex seal in the future oh yeah also i covered my hands
in a black residue that was a little bit lame wow so i screwed in the brass plate and then i plugged
in the pcb into the daughter board and then i made a grave grave mistake so you see those six little
holes in the back of this yeah you're supposed to put the screws in before you put the pcb in um
i didn't do that so you'll i look at me go i'm blissfully unaware of the trouble i'm about to
encounter so wee woo alert if you're building this board make sure you put those bottom pins in first
otherwise you're gonna fully assemble it realize you messed up and then have to disassemble it
yikes eventually i did realize that i was dumb took it apart and put the bolts back in to the
midpiece this board has a really creative design and that you don't see any screws on the outside
but yeah if you're not careful that could be pretty annoying so then you just screw everything
back together which is relatively simple and voila it's switch time so the switches i'm going to be
using for this build are sp stars which are a magic little tactile from the key company these
were sent to me for free to review and here's my little mini review i guess these were matched to
the magic girl set and i'll do some magic of my own nice star time really did like did did we
pay somebody to write that okay i've been informed that we need to be distracted by the knob so look
at that knob oh that's a nice knob oh you want my opinion on the switches okay these switches
actually felt really great and i was pleasantly surprised even though i'm a linear gang they felt
nice they weren't too tactile and as you'll see later in the video paired with this brass plate
they made amazing sounds like whoa okay so now it's key cap time and we're using some expensive
keycaps gmk future funk to be precise well the dark version now i got to be honest the plum
version of this board was really hard to match keycaps to and personally i never would get the
plum version like period it looks like barney like look at this it's freaking barney oh my god
no offense no offense barney please don't sue me but i think paired with these future fun
keycaps which are like a really deep dark purple it actually does look kind of nice i really like
this board's chunky bezels although i don't know how practical they'll be for long term daily
use but aesthetically it's a very gorgeous board this brass weight really just yum yum
so stabilizer review i did an okay job lubing them but the left one was a little bit overlooped
and oh you got a tiny teaser of the board sound and it sounds really nice now it didn't have it
at the time but the board will have via support meaning that you can reprogram this whole board
and kind of change what you want the knob to do and stuff but no hypiotech knob tutorials
this time but now you're probably going to ask me oh hip yo is this board worth my 500
and to that i have a two-pronged response so number one keyboards are really not worth 500
even as an enthusiast like it's it's hard to say that it's worth it however if you're in the
market for something really expensive you want to treat yourself with an elegantly designed keyboard
and you like the end result then you know you wouldn't go wrong with this one like the result
i got with this board is very noticeably better than a keyboard that cost around 100 to 200
like it felt really nice to type on and it sounded so pleasant i'm gonna leave you guys
with a sound test make sure you watch the whole thing to support my youtube algorithm overlooks
thanks to the mr man bees are starchild fenney joseph crane rosy ray and aquarius keyboards bye
you