I am hyped, but the price tag might sway me away, gotta work harder now lol.
Same here...450....still might get it though.
Satisfaction GB was 399.99 with brass plate, brass weight, rotary encoder and OLED screen though. Just sayin....
The polished stainless steel parts are a large part of why this is going to cost what it does.
The weight has a lot of exposed edges rather than just 1 face that they need to prioritise to have a good finish.
I had a rough estimate for a sandblasted brass weight with clear-coat for cost comparisons and it came out a fair bit cheaper.
Definitely getting one, but guess I'll have to proxy it from NK, because every package from them to Canada gets hit with duties and customs and costs like 25-50% of the package, especially if it's UPS that's shipping it.
Would to hear others experience on this because if that's the case I may go through Asia then have my friend from Japan ship it to me.
I am hyped, but the price tag might sway me away, gotta work harder now lol.
Same here...450....still might get it though.
Satisfaction GB was 399.99 with brass plate, brass weight, rotary encoder and OLED screen though. Just sayin....
I don't think the price is that high, the OLED screen itself is like $4-5 and I'm not sure what the pricing on brass is but this is going to have PVD coated stainless steel. On top of that the machining and QC needed for the 7v logo can't be ignored either.
My opinion might be skewed a little since I just bought a $500+ board though....
Is Deskeys a reliable vendor? They don't seem to be all that active, their latest update was from December.
Very valid point, I would love to hear some info on Deskeys.
450 is the base price. I assume it would have the polished stainless steel weight and not the PVD coated option.
This is correct.
Regarding the Deskeys query, kevinplus who worked with Ai03 on the KBD8X Mkii and the Polaris is the one behind Deskeys.
I trust him to do a good job as he did great work QCing all the Polaris units himself and that GB sold like a thousand units I believe.