Thanks, I'm glad you liked the MX Clear switchesby blackwater 10/23/2022, 2:28pm PDT
I tend to press keys hard because I'm old and that's what keyboards required back in the day. Not consciously but I just do. I couldn't get into mechanical keyboards until I discovered the clear and green switches which allow you to press hard without bottoming out.
I remember someone wrote a review of these switches online that said nobody would need green switches unless they "typed like an ogre." But I clicked "buy" anyway, and it all turned out well. Maybe... I do type like an ogre??
Fullofkittens wrote:
My only note (!) is that every time I press any key there is a quiet metallic resonant "ping" sound, the same sound for every key, like there's a tiny spring reverb inside the thing. 20-ish minutes of internet research has offered me two competing theories:
This is the only bad thing about this keyboard but in 45 easy steps you can completely take apart the keyboard and lube a bunch of things and add foam insulation and it will fix it.
This is a mechanical keyboard thing, just get used to it.
Back when I was looking into this I got the impression that being "pingy" was a bad thing and various Internet People accused various keyboards (not the switches, but the keyboards) of it. It was something about... the accoustics of the case, or something?
I read a review or two that accused the keyboard I own (a Tex) of being "pingy." I don't really know, though, it doesn't bother me.
Fullofkittens wrote:
It's not really bothering me very much, if I were not using it in a silent glass cubicle I probably wouldn't notice it. But it does make me wonder if this is the expected experience. I also don't know if I should be perceiving this thing as a "premium" mechanical keyboard, is a $150 mechanical keyboard a fancy one or a not-fancy one? They seem like analog synths in that you can really spend an unlimited amount of money if you want to go into super-premium territory.
$150 is low / medium end for mechanicals.
You are right that there are people shovelling money into these things like there's no tomorrow. And a disturbing number of people seem to like the idea of disassembling their keyboard and putting rubber bands on each key stem, or some shit like that.
So just be aware that if you keep researching this stuff, and actually listening to us, in a few years, you could be this guy:
