We check desk gear the way it actually gets used
Keyboards, mice and earbuds are the tools you touch for more hours than anything else on the desk. This site checks them for the things a spec sheet leaves out.
Why this exists
Most gear coverage answers "is this good?" That question has no useful answer. The same mouse is excellent for gaming and awkward for eight hours of spreadsheets; the same keyboard is a pleasure at home and a problem in a shared office. So we answer a narrower question: who does this actually fit, and what will annoy them.
We write in Korean first, because that is where we buy and use this equipment. Selected articles are then rewritten in English — rewritten for how English speakers search, not machine-translated.
What we cover, and what we do not
We cover keyboards, mice, earbuds and the accessories around them — the input and audio gear you use for work, mostly in the affordable range where the trade-offs are real.
We do not cover audio quality claims that need measurement equipment we do not own. We can tell you about fit, isolation, channel balance and how a pair behaves after ten months. We will not rank drivers by ear and present it as measurement.
Four testing principles
We say whether we used it
Every article states plainly whether the product was in our hands. If it was not, it is labelled a guide or a comparison, never a review, and it makes no first-hand claims.
Numbers carry their conditions
A measurement without its conditions is decoration. Battery figures carry the settings and the volume; prices carry the date and the seller.
We separate stated from measured
Manufacturer figures and our own readings are never mixed in the same cell. Where we could not verify something, we write that we could not.
We do not manufacture numbers
No dividing one spec by another to produce a figure nobody measured. If we did not measure it, it does not get a number.
How an article gets made
Pick the question
We start from what people actually search when something is wrong, not from what is easy to write.
Gather facts
Specs from primary listings and manufacturer material, cross-checked against at least two independent sources.
Measure what we can
What is in our hands gets used and measured. What is not gets labelled as such.
Draft and edit
AI (Claude) does the research, drafting and editing. A human does the measuring and the final sign-off.
Check before publishing
Automated checks for broken links, layout on real viewport sizes, and untranslated strings run before anything ships.
Four verdict tiers
Full criteria →Clear advantages for this use and this user. Enough reason to choose it even accepting the price or a known drawback.
Recommended for a particular hand size, environment, operating system, workflow or price. Check that the condition applies to you before buying.
There is promise here, but variables remain. Better to wait for a price drop, a firmware fix, or longer-term evidence.
Not enough reason to choose it for this use. Better alternatives exist, or the friction in real use is likely to be significant.
How we write things down
Prices carry a date
Prices move, so a bare number ages badly. Every price says when it was checked and where, including whether shipping was separate.
Photos are ours
Product photos in reviews are shot by us. We do not take images from retail listings or other blogs, and we do not pass generated images off as photographs of a real unit.
Stated and measured stay apart
A manufacturer's figure and our reading are labelled separately. Where the two disagree, we show both rather than picking the flattering one.
No derived numbers
We do not divide capacity by capacity, or price by days, to produce a figure nobody measured. Those numbers look precise and mean nothing.
Who makes this
Desk Armory is run by one person in Korea, working with AI. AI (Claude) does the research, drafting and editing; a human buys the products, does the measuring, and approves every article before it publishes. We say this openly because you should know how what you are reading was made.
How the site makes money
Two ways, and we would rather you knew both. Display advertising (Google AdSense) and affiliate links to retailers, which pay a commission on purchases. Affiliate links appear only at the end of an article, never mid-paragraph, and any article containing one says so.
What that does not buy: a verdict. No manufacturer has paid for coverage or seen an article before it published. When we cannot recommend something we say so, and name a better option.
The YouTube channel
The channel and this site are the same brand and the same testing. Video shows what a product feels and sounds like; the written articles carry the numbers, the conditions and the long-term notes. The channel is in Korean.
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Corrections, tips, partnerships
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say what changed. Email junfree77@gmail.com, or use the contact page.