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
MD usually is only the middle man and i see it as some kind of shopping mall. You buy your Gateron switches and keycaps and keyboards from different companys/people and it can't be the problem of company C that you have bought switches before from company A.
The exception of the rule is for example any Infinity project, where MD isn't only the middle man and there you usually get the options you're asking for.
Of course i would like to get a Corsair K65 RGB, i love the look, without red switches, because i don't like them and solder different switches, but this wont happen, which i understand, but i don't understand they're not offering a wider variety of switches.
But MD might be able to ask for another drop for the case alone, if other pcbs might fit, in the future.