I am having numerous issues with my Corsair K63 keyboard that make it a bit crappier to use than a standard keyboard.
Although I like it , the metallic ping is horrendous. The board is plastic but it makes a pinging sound that sounds very metallic. Is this normal for cherry mx reds?
The weight is also a turn off as I lose accuracy when typing. I am a fast typist. How would I mod the board so the springs are heavier?
Every corsair board I have pings at least a little bit. I actually quite like it, with box navies in this K65, it is loud enough to remind me of buckling springs. I would say that other people probably agree, since there was a high school student who absolutely hated the sound of my F AT, liked my DC-2014, and now he hates my K65. lol
I don't follow the plastic Corsair boards, but the ping is probably from an internal metal plate that the switches are mounted to. If you're going to pull all of the switches, maybe you may as well swap in silent reds or something, or even just something better than Cherry.
I do agree that the decrease in speed/precision is due to the relatively light force required to bottom reds out. I don't think that that would be a problem if you were typing almost exclusively on Cherry MX reds for a few days, but you always make it sound like you're typing mostly on rubber domes, so you're probably bottoming out hard. I know I sure do on reds, but I'm typing mostly with box thick clicks otherwise ... so.