Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
As for the keycaps I like to keep defaults on for a little while at least, especially for atypical layouts like this where I need to relearn the location of functions & shortcuts, especially when I'm switching them out for blanks in some cases, but I'll definitely be switching them out eventually. I love the look of DSA for smaller boards like this, I wish the pro modifiers for Quartz were still available! But I might actually get this dyesub set from Geekkeys (http://www.geekkeys.com/white-dyesub-pbt-104-keyset-magenta-fonts/) and mix them with some white PBT blanks I know I have lying around somewhere.
Again, this is ME, YOUR experience with a mk like this might be totaly different!
Popular drops often redrop once the last drop has been shipped, some, for whatever reason, are one time only. If the KC64 should fullfill your needs, maybe get it, the price, even though this is new and quality is unknown, is good.
Keycool so far by me isn't known to build/sell shitty mks, ok, let's not talk about Kailh switches, they seem to be doomed, whatever they're going to do/improve :)
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/kbparadise-v60-mini-gateron redrops every other day for example, just look around and read to get impressions.