I have used many mechanical keyboards, but the Epomaker EP75 is different. The Epomaker EP75 is an exceptional prebuilt mechanical keyboard featuring a 75% split design and an attractive white and blue color scheme.
I mostly like the Switches, Hotswap Ability, & Hotswap of this keyboard, Typing sound and RGBA are so satisfying. The keyboard offers multipurpose connectivity with USB-C, Bluetooth for three devices, and a 2.4GHz wireless dongle, powered by dual 5000mAh batteries for extended use. Epomaker EP75 comes from $105.99 and $109.99.
Form Factor & Build Quality
This is a 75% split design form factor. We love to see it. The colorway looks great. It’s kind of a white and blue colorway. I think they say that it’s like Norwegian, or no, I’m getting it wrong. That’s where they say the keycaps are from.
Whatever, that’s the keycap section. I’m getting ahead of myself. It looks really good overall. The build quality here was probably the most surprising thing for me. Epomaker has had some great boards with fantastic sounds, but their cases have been high quality before with good plastics, yet they just haven’t been awe-inspiring. The cases have been kind of basic.
They’ve also been reusing their case design, which was good, and has worked for like three or four years now. They did have some other case designs like the TH66, C66, and TH88, which were great cases and worked well with good sound profiles, but they were fairly basic.
As far as the build and rigidity, just like all the previous Epomaker boards, this one is really good. It is super rigid. While it has a plastic construction, you try to bend it and it’s not going to happen. Very, very rigid. But where it differs is that it’s so much more unique. It has beveled edges, which are slight and look very pretty, much more high-end.
There is a massive 360-degree RGB diffuser in there, it is just awesome. Overall, I think this looks and feels more expensive than it is.
That being said, we’re in a space where keyboards are becoming unbelievably good because of the pandemic. It has just pushed these manufacturers to create unbelievable keyboards at low price points. This one has a very specific thing that I really like it for, but the case is really good. I think it’s much more attractive than a lot of their previous designs, and going in a good direction.
Mounting Style & Dampening
Mounting style and dampening, this is kind of tray-mounted, although there are no screws that you directly screw into. There’s a kind of two-piece plastic shell design, but then obviously you get that RGB thing in there.
But it’s a clip-together case, pretty easy to get off, so if you do want to get inside and mod it, not a problem there. It snaps together and that’s really the only thing holding the keyboard together.
This wasn’t a problem because it’s very rigid and there were no problems with fit and finish there. But that’s how it’s mounted. It’s like stand-ups but it’s just clipped together. As for dampening, this uses EVA foam in the case and then, I believe, also EVA foam or a similar type of foam between the plate and the PCB.
Now, if you did want to make this quieter because this is a fairly loud board, which I personally really like, you could change out the dampening in the case and that would make a difference.
The Keycaps
Keycaps are ESA profiles, which they call a subset of SA profiles. Now, if you don’t know the SA profile, the SA profile is very tall. This one is a little bit slimmer but has that spherical top, so it’s more huggy on the fingers. I believe the ESA profile was developed by Epomaker. Whatever the fact is, I really like it. This is like a compact, stealthy, tactical SA profile.
A little bit grippy, but once your oils get onto them from your fingertips—I know, a little bit gross—but once you start typing on them a little bit, it’s not too grippy and not a problem.
Overall, I do like the profile, especially the sound profile, and I do like the huggy spherical tops. I like it especially to type on. Now, the printing here is, well, really interesting. As far as text crispness, super freaking crisp. I mean, crisp. The interesting thing is you can almost see sometimes where the letter separates from the rest of the keycap, which is interesting. It’s not very noticeable at all.
Switches, Hotswappability, & Hotswap Direction
Let’s move into the reason that I really, really love this keyboard, and that is the switches. You have three switch options. First, you have Gateron Pro Yellows. That’s a great switch. It’s just a great switch.
But that’s not the thing that makes this board. What makes this board is Epomaker’s own switches. Now, Epomaker has their Flamingo switch, which is also a linear switch like the Gateron Yellow, and I believe all of these switches are pre-lubed.
But the switch that makes this keyboard for me is the Budgerigar switch, also by Epomaker, and this switch is fantastic. I have actually had the Budgerigar switch, which is tactile.
I’ve used this switch for like the past two months, a month, two months, I don’t know. It’s been a long time now, and it’s so good to the point where I don’t like switching to other keyboards to edit on them. I don’t even want to edit on linear switch keyboards anymore. It’s so good.
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I love it for precision work. Especially if you’re using this and looking at this from a utility point of view, this switch makes sense. When I’m doing editing, I need very precise precision because I edit very, very quickly. So for that, this is amazing. For typing precisely, this is good.
Not for everyone, but yeah, really, really good. I like this switch. Now, talking about the liners, Gateron Pro Yellows, is great if you want to use this as a gaming keyboard. There you go. I would probably get that one.
So I don’t think you can go wrong with any of the switch options here, and honestly, overall, that’s what makes this keyboard good. You have the build quality, and we’ll get into some other stuff, but the biggest thing is the switch options here are good and they’re lubed well.
Like the factory lube is well done. Alright, as for hot-swap ability, this is hot-swappable with three- and five-pin switches and they are north-facing LEDs. We’re not getting south-facing LEDs.
The Stabilizers
The stabilizers I got are really right here. They are plate-mounted but they are super freaking tight. And when I say super freaking tight, I mean you try to move these, and they don’t move at all. So, they’re very tight on the plate. They’re also tuned well.
Typing Sound & Feel
Let’s talk about typing sound and feel. They got this bang on, guys. I think that’s clear from what I’ve said about this. It’s definitely on the louder side like it’s definitely on the upper side of the louder side. It’s going to be a little bit less loud if you’re getting the linear switches, but with the tactile, I mean it’s loud.
As far as typing feels with the Budgerigar switches, now again, I’m partial to these switches because I personally love them and I’ve had them on my main keyboard for writing for a long time now, so I like these switches.
Epomaker EP75: RGB
Now, let’s talk RGB—a section that’s a nice pro to have and it’s well, a fantastic thing with this keyboard. Not only do they have per-key lighting with a bunch of different modes and static colors and whatever you want, and it’s quite bright, but you get 360-degree RGB.
Most RGB just looks like trash in the daylight. This looks good, and I’m mainly talking about that 360-degree lighting. You get a little bit of a glow from those keys because it is nice and bright, but the 360-degree lighting is so good. Now, there are some cons here. It’s not a perfect band. It’s not perfectly diffused. It has bright spots and dim spots.
So, if you want to set this to a white color or just a lower, dimmer color or something like that, you can do that. So, it doesn’t need to look super gamey and RGB, but I mean I’m a gamer at the end of the day. I love RGB. I’m still crazy about RGB. I love this.
Battery & Connectivity
Now, the battery and connectivity here also get pretty nuts and this is, well, a really big pro and kind of shocking that they did this at the price point. Firstly, the battery, they call it a 10,000 mAh battery. That’s a lot of battery juice, but it’s not.
It’s two 5,000 mAh batteries, but well, that’s the same thing, right? On a single charge, this thing lasts for freaking ever. With the RGB on, it will last well over a week if you’re using this all day every day. Okay, well over a week, and that’s with the RGB on. Without the RGB on, this is just basically going to last your entire lifetime. You’ll never have to charge it again.
Not really, but yeah, it’s basically like that. You’ll rarely change this if you don’t have the RGB on with the battery. Now, as far as connectivity, you’ve got a detachable USB Type-C. There is no inlet here, so any cable will work. If you do want to do a custom coil cable, you don’t have to worry about it. It’s right at the edge.
This also has Bluetooth connection up to three different devices and it has a 2.4 GHz USB dongle. Now, the thing that I like about the USB dongle is it has a nice little compartment on the back right side. So if you’re holding the keyboard, well, if you’re holding the keyboard right here, the compartment is right there.
The nicest 2.4 GHz USB dongle holder ever. Overall, the connectivity is fantastic with a massive battery, and a bunch of RGB, and the RGB will last a long time in wireless mode, which is great.
