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Silent reds are pretty good, damping wise. But the sliders are still scratchier than I’d like. That shuffle shuffle sound is much more apparent when the topping and bottoming out is fully damped. My silent red Filco is still louder than my NovaTouch, besides the spacebar, where they did an ...

Hello, im looking for a silent board, im currently sporting a 550 Yama and my plan is to change the keys for either Mx silents or Mx zilents (Mx silents in Aliaz housing) and add either oil or Krytox 205g0.

Considering my current board has "floating" keys with a metal structure and i would like to ...

zrrion wrote: 25 Jan 2019, 01:15 QMX clips are the way to go here. They don't effect the feel as much either.

Ty, do you know where they can be bought ? i only found a site that sells only in europe.
And are there switches that do this by themselves ?

So, things like o-rings only silence the key when pressed, is there a way to silence the upstroke or switches that silence the upstroke ?

@Kakalxlax: Sorry, I do not know of any keyboards with volume wheels.

On programmable keyboards, you can map keyboard keys to volume controls. For example, on my programmable boards, I usually have Fn+A = vol down; Fn+S = vol up; and Fn+D = mute.


I just tried out and was able to remove a ...

In my opinion, some of the mx clones are better than the equivalent Cherry switches. Moreover, some of the clone manufacturers have produced new switches that do not [yet] exist in the Cherry lineup.

Linear switches have no tactile bump and no click, except for the bottoming out and return sounds ...

@Kakalxlax: Welcome to Deskthority!

For testing various types of Cherry mx switches or clones of the same, you could get a non-electronic switch tester and buy small assortments of switches for testing.

A major step up from a non-electronic switch tester would be an electronic switch tester or a ...

TheInverseKey wrote: 17 Jan 2019, 21:19 I would recommend you to look into a GMMK either full size or TKL.

Do they have a model with a volume wheel? i didnt find any.

Hello, i recently got my first mechanical keyboard which is a Redragon Yama with outemu purple switches, and though im getting used to it, i'd like another keyboard to try different switches, specially to have a more quiet alternative.

So, basically, im looking for either a base board without ...