Royal Kludge RK84 Keyboard

[VSG]

The Royal Kludge brand is popular for several keyboard models that took advantage of its in-house engineering, design, and manufacturing facilities. With the RK84, we see features that come on flagship keyboards at a budget price, including a 3-port USB hub, wired/Bluetooth/2.4 GHz connectivity options, and more!

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[P4-630]

That brand name though...

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I saw klunge when i first looked. Inbetweeners keyboard

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Hey reviewer, you mention in the review that the top bezel was easily removed by hand.... This is actually a feature to give the user the option to have a floating key cap style.... It's literally on the product page, but you seem to totally miss this in the review.

I have this keyboard and an RK71, and I'm very happy with both of them (both white with blue switches, don't know how anyone can claim to enjoy typing on red switches). I've never had a $150+ keyboard so, I can't compare them to expensive ones, but I have zero complaints. Honestly, I'm hesitant to try any expensive keyboards since I don't feel a doubling in price will result in a doubling of experience. I especially like how the RK84 can have the frame removed to achieve a floating key style. I've had the RK71 for a year and a half as my daily driver and have had no issues.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Hey reviewer, you mention in the review that the top bezel was easily removed by hand.... This is actually a feature to give the user the option to have a floating key cap style.... It's literally on the product page, but you seem to totally miss this in the review.

I have this keyboard and an RK71, and I'm very happy with both of them (both white with blue switches, don't know how anyone can claim to enjoy typing on red switches). I've never had a $150+ keyboard so, I can't compare them to expensive ones, but I have zero complaints. Honestly, I'm hesitant to try any expensive keyboards since I don't feel a doubling in price will result in a doubling of experience. I especially like how the RK84 can have the frame removed to achieve a floating key style. I've had the RK71 for a year and a half as my daily driver and have had no issues.

Not surprised, its a nice looking keyboard, shame its white though.

 

[VSG]

Hey reviewer, you mention in the review that the top bezel was easily removed by hand.... This is actually a feature to give the user the option to have a floating key cap style.... It's literally on the product page, but you seem to totally miss this in the review.

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I have this keyboard and an RK71, and I'm very happy with both of them (both white with blue switches, don't know how anyone can claim to enjoy typing on red switches). I've never had a $150+ keyboard so, I can't compare them to expensive ones, but I have zero complaints. Honestly, I'm hesitant to try any expensive keyboards since I don't feel a doubling in price will result in a doubling of experience. I especially like how the RK84 can have the frame removed to achieve a floating key style. I've had the RK71 for a year and a half as my daily driver and have had no issues.

lol one tiny image saying "Embedded or Floated" isn't the best way to mention this in the product page, but point taken.

 

[EzioAs]

Royal Kludge has always been my recommendation for the entry level mech keyboard. There are of course cheaper $40-50 options but most of those are not wireless and I think sub-$100 is still not too bad.

 

[Lnxepique]

Not surprised, its a nice looking keyboard, shame its white though.

It's available in black, both on AliExpress and Banggood...

I have a wish for future reviews:

When testing the RDB lighting and color fidelity, please do some manual color tweaking of the individual channels to see how close the keyboard can get to white.

I have had keyboard that were terrible when picking white in the software, but were able to (manually) get really close to a good white nonetheless. And have had other keyboards that just couldn't, no matter what I tried. A recent example for this, albeit not a keyboard, is the Roccat Kone Pro Air. Tweaking the RGB channels in single steps often does nothing, it jumps every ~20 "steps", and the seemingly narrow line between greenish white and blueish white is inaccessible, you can only have either of them.

 

[VSG]

It's available in black, both on AliExpress and Banggood...

I have a wish for future reviews:

When testing the RDB lighting and color fidelity, please do some manual color tweaking of the individual channels to see how close the keyboard can get to white.

I have had keyboard that were terrible when picking white in the software, but were able to (manually) get really close to a good white nonetheless. And have had other keyboards that just couldn't, no matter what I tried. A recent example for this, albeit not a keyboard, is the Roccat Kone Pro Air. Tweaking the RGB channels in single steps often does nothing, it jumps every ~20 "steps", and the seemingly narrow line between greenish white and blueish white is inaccessible, you can only have either of them.

If the company does not care enough to do this then I won't either. It takes a lot of time to get this tuning done which unfortunately could be better spent elsewhere.

 

[sedentary]

I just bought this keyboard. So far very happy with it. It's my first mechanical keyboard and I've caught that bug. I've done two small mods and plan more in the future. I'm going to try my hand at making a walnut base and change out the keycaps for some big fat xda keycaps. Maybe switches later when I have feel up to lubing. My only complaint so far (besides the switches and even there I'm very happy for the price) is the stabilizer used. I'm not too fussed by it but it's pretty tinny. I am going to be getting a couple of these for my kids at christmas and we'll do some modding over the holidays.

 

[VSG]

I just bought this keyboard. So far very happy with it. It's my first mechanical keyboard and I've caught that bug. I've done two small mods and plan more in the future. I'm going to try my hand at making a walnut base and change out the keycaps for some big fat xda keycaps. Maybe switches later when I have feel up to lubing. My only complaint so far (besides the switches and even there I'm very happy for the price) is the stabilizer used. I'm not too fussed by it but it's pretty tinny. I am going to be getting a couple of these for my kids at christmas and we'll do some modding over the holidays.

Glad you like it too!

 

[koxn]

I just bought this keyboard. So far very happy with it. It's my first mechanical keyboard and I've caught that bug. I've done two small mods and plan more in the future. I'm going to try my hand at making a walnut base and change out the keycaps for some big fat xda keycaps. Maybe switches later when I have feel up to lubing. My only complaint so far (besides the switches and even there I'm very happy for the price) is the stabilizer used. I'm not too fussed by it but it's pretty tinny. I am going to be getting a couple of these for my kids at christmas and we'll do some modding over the holidays.

Hi, I'm considering getting this keyboard too, on Amazon to be precise. But I am a little scare because I read to many bad opinions about the dongle of this keyboard, they say that the keyboard has too short connection range, which makes it have high latency and sometimes even lose "clicks", with the cable it works excellent, and with bluetooth mode it works fine, but with too high latency to play online games, then the 2.4 dongle remains but this one works even worse than bluetooth mode. At leaat that is what i read and some reviwers say on youtube.

So, can you pls tell me your experiencr with it?