ASCENY Asceny Plate Mount Stabilizers for Mechanical Keyboards (No Numpad Kit)

I am somewhat new to the mechanical keyboard modding scene and recently purchased a new keyboard. In my quest to improve the acoustics and feel of the keyboard, I decided to purchase these stabilizers. While I had used stabilizers from other companies, such as Durock, in the past on other keyboards, I was working on a more high-end build and so I was enthralled by the supposed higher quality of these stabilizers, especially since options are more limited on the plate-mounted side of things.These stabilizers definitely look and feel high quality, especially compared to the stock stabilizers that came on my board. While they aren’t magical in any way, as I still needed to mod them to reduce rattling and ticking noises, they feel extremely good and I have been enjoying these stabilizers very much. I will say though that these stabilizers are slightly bigger than normal and they were an extremely tight fit on my keyboard. They went in fairly easily, had to use a bit of light force but nothing too crazy, like the same amount of force needed to install a switch. The problem for me though was taking them out. Most of them came out fine but two of the “housings” for lack of a better term did not want to come back out, and in the end, I ended up breaking one of the stabilizers which was upsetting. Thank goodness my set came with an extra stabilizer housing which came in clutch, but if it wasn’t for that I would’ve been left hanging. The new housing did not have the same issue when used in the same spot as the housing that broke, so either the old stabilizer warped the hole enough to make the new one fit better, which I doubt considering my keyboard uses a steel plate, orrr each stabilizer housing has varying QC, which can be dangerous. Either way, I am still mostly happy with the purchase regardless of this size issue as I got everything to work nicely in the end, even if it was a bit painful.Now, here’s the thing. If you’re just planning to use these stabilizers stock as an upgrade from the ones included in your keyboard, then these are fine for the price. I do think these stabilizers are better than the Durock ones when both are compared out-of-the-box, but that’s as far as it goes. When modded with lube and the holee mod, both these and the Durock stabs are basically the exact same. The problem here is, I reckon most people who are even considering buying new stabilizers at all are doing so with the intention of modding them, since buying stabilizers in the first place is such an enthusiast thing to do, which makes these a hard sell at the $20 price tag in my honest opinion. And even then, as mentioned before, they still had ticking issues out of the box anyway, so the recommendation is to mod them anyway. Ultimately though I do think these are at least worth trying out if you really want the best of the best when it comes to plate mounted stabilizers.

These are by far the best plate stabs I’ve ever tried. Absolutely no wobble whatsoever. I used these in my Wooting HE60 and love them! Also, please disregard the review stating these dont work / could break when using cherry profile keycaps. These fit with no issues, full honesty I think that person is just an idiot and pushed down too hard when it wasn’t alined properly. These are definitely worth the money!