Hello fellow Cody, and welcome to Geekhack. Great choice in box jades (are you me from another dimension?). From what I can gather, the pinks and the jades are the bassiest switches of the box family, which already seem to have amongst the bassiest switches of the modern switches. Navies would definitely not give you the thock you desire, although they're a pleasure to type on. I don't know of any, personally, that are bassier that would be compatible, much less as heavy as you would like, but maybe somebody might.
You could try swapping some sprit springs of an intermediate weighting into regular old jades and see how those work out for you. Personally, I've decided just to use all jades or all navies in all of my boards. I put a navy into the spacebar for my cop keyboard, but I realized even that was unnecessary once I tried filling an old Unitek K-151L with jades. No return issues whatsoever, even with the big ass enter key and giant AT space bar.
I imagine this is more specifically focused on varied weightings though moreso than the past concerns with sluggish return.
Any of the box switches with that heavy click bar aren't going to "thock", the click is too overpowering for that.
Bassier or not, click and thock are too distinctly different sounds, and any clicky switch by design won't give him what he's describing here. I know you love de click my man, but cmon :p
Thock is hard to achieve in MX tbqh. I'd say linears with an SA or other high profile keyset will achieve this somewhat, but also silent options would most likely do this better. A note on silent though, it might not be the best option feel wise, as it's a soft bottom out short throw directly contrasted by a full throw harsh bottom out.
I personally think that something similar to an MX clear is the best option, only so that you dont have a huge contrast in feel from alpha to spacebar. Won't really be the same, but will be about as close as you can get imo.
Closest MX sound I've heard that actually almost "Thocks" btw
Forward video to 1:07 for them ASMR sounds
Any of the box switches with that heavy click bar aren't going to "thock", the click is too overpowering for that.
Bassier or not, click and thock are too distinctly different sounds, and any clicky switch by design won't give him what he's describing here. I know you love de click my man, but cmon :p
Thock is hard to achieve in MX tbqh. I'd say linears with an SA or other high profile keyset will achieve this somewhat, but also silent options would most likely do this better. A note on silent though, it might not be the best option feel wise, as it's a soft bottom out short throw directly contrasted by a full throw harsh bottom out.
I personally think that something similar to an MX clear is the best option, only so that you dont have a huge contrast in feel from alpha to spacebar. Won't really be the same, but will be about as close as you can get imo.
Closest MX sound I've heard that actually almost "Thocks" btw
Forward video to 1:07 for them ASMR sounds
I'll, respectfully, disagree with you there. Have you tried any of them? The click is basically at the very beginning of travel, so it is pretty much over by the time the switch bottoms out, but navies (like I'm typing on right now) have a much higher-pitched click than jades do, so there would be a contrast in sound there, between highs and lows, possibly grating to some. I find the nice bassy click of the jades to complement the following thock nicely. I suppose I could have worded my first post better.
Hello fellow Cody, and welcome to Geekhack. Great choice in box jades (are you me from another dimension?). From what I can gather, the pinks and the jades are the bassiest switches of the box family, which already seem to have amongst the bassiest switches of the modern switches. Navies would definitely not give you the thock you desire, although they're a pleasure to type on. I don't know of any, personally, that are bassier that would be compatible, much less as heavy as you would like, but maybe somebody might.
You could try swapping some sprit springs of an intermediate weighting into regular old jades and see how those work out for you. Personally, I've decided just to use all jades or all navies in all of my boards. I put a navy into the spacebar for my cop keyboard, but I realized even that was unnecessary once I tried filling an old Unitek K-151L with jades. No return issues whatsoever, even with the big ass enter key and giant AT space bar.
I imagine this is more specifically focused on varied weightings though moreso than the past concerns with sluggish return.
Any of the box switches with that heavy click bar aren't going to "thock", the click is too overpowering for that.
Bassier or not, click and thock are too distinctly different sounds, and any clicky switch by design won't give him what he's describing here. I know you love de click my man, but cmon :p
Thock is hard to achieve in MX tbqh. I'd say linears with an SA or other high profile keyset will achieve this somewhat, but also silent options would most likely do this better. A note on silent though, it might not be the best option feel wise, as it's a soft bottom out short throw directly contrasted by a full throw harsh bottom out.
I personally think that something similar to an MX clear is the best option, only so that you dont have a huge contrast in feel from alpha to spacebar. Won't really be the same, but will be about as close as you can get imo.
Closest MX sound I've heard that actually almost "Thocks" btw
Forward video to 1:07 for them ASMR sounds
Thanks for the feedback! I have a set of SA profile Pulse keycaps so I do in fact have SA's as you suggested (I want SA Olivia's, but cant seem to acquire those anywhere). I plan to clip the stabilizers for the mods and space and lube them up to remove any rattle. Just been debating to go with the Jade's for the space bar or use a different switch. I will definitely take your suggestions into consideration :)