Meletrix Zoom65 V2 Essential Edition - Impressive and Affordable

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Meletrix is back with a new version of its first-ever keyboard, the Zoom65. With a compact, gaming-friendly layout, wireless connectivity, and massively improved acoustics, the Zoom 65 V2 Essential Edition is a big improvement over the original that factors in all of the advancements of Meletrix’s more recent keyboards. Starting at $175, it’s an excellent entry point to the world of custom mechanical keyboards.

The Zoom65 V2 Essential Edition is the second coming of Meletrix’s debut release, the Zoom65. It’s a compact mechanical keyboard kit, made to balance form with functionality by trimming off keys you may not need and restoring that space to your mouse hand (while also bringing a touch of minimalism to your desk). It features a traditional 65% layout, which means that it has your core keyset, but the function row and numpad have been removed, the former put on a secondary layer. It keeps the arrow keys, a column of customizable navigation and editing buttons, and a volume knob in the upper right.

This new version brings with it a number of big improvements over the original. There are more colors to choose from (fourteen altogether) and every case comes with a unique backplate in either glass or PVD stainless steel, as well as a new carbon fiber option. The backplates also have a centered cutout for an external weight, available in nine different colors with matching knobs. The cases now have a seamless design with no exposed screws and, like last time, are made of full aluminum and are either electrostatic sprayed or nano-coated in the case of the GT Silver colorway.

Customization really is the name of the game. The options we’ve seen on the Zoom TKL and Zoom75 have trickled down here, allowing you really tailor