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Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: gmorf33 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:02:27: Is it just me or is the "filco ping" more like a choir of angels singing in rejoicement when you hit that perfect typing rhythm where you are just going nonstop at 75+ WPM? Its become a sound I take great satisfaction in when i can make my keyboard sing.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Urglifast on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:41:25: why does the forum not have a like button?

definitely didn't buy a mechanical for the not making a lot of noise factor
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: hcry4 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:42:51: This is not Facebook.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Urglifast on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:44:16: Quote from: hcry4;422188
This is not Facebook.

captain obvious strikes again.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: hcry4 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:45:22: Quote from: Urglifast;422191
captain obvious strikes again.

Upvoted.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: peda on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:45:54: Quote from: Urglifast;422187
why does the forum not have a like button?

definitely didn't buy a mechanical for the not making a lot of noise factor

Oh my, could you imagine a voting system like reddit... O.o
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Urglifast on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:46:11: Quote from: hcry4;422192
Upvoted.

X2

....wait, isn't that like liking my own post?
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: hcry4 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:48:12: At least this place isn't overrun by lame meme pics...oh wait...
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Urglifast on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:48:17: Quote from: peda;422193
Oh my, could you imagine a voting system like reddit... O.o

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I'd like to note that my POS iONE that I bought to have a non-descript mechanical at work doesn't ping.
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Post by: peda on Tue, 27 September 2011, 14:59:11: (http://tapatalk.com/mu/2e9b3e7a-2b0b-a6ac.jpg)
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: noodles256 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:07:32: ping
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Post by: Urglifast on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:07:46: Quote from: peda;422198
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Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: insilica on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:21:10: I can foresee a sub-forum arising:

"Ping"
discuss all ping related issues here

Honestly it's not a big issue! For some it maybe an issue.

Should not put anyone off a mechanical keyboard! i.e. Cherry switch based!

For me the put-off of Topre was that it is a reinvented yet more sturdy rubber dome keyboard. Sorry Blasphemy to some but I am entitled to that opinion no matter how ill-educated such a comment may be. Now that I have a mechanical Filco Brown I think the whole ping thing is blown out of proportion just as my ill-educated comment as above-described! not mentioning the Topre fart ("Topre Fart" is a copyright of ripster)

Edit:

Btw - I am starting to hate this place! I am considering a Topre 87 45g uniform :-), just because I am curios. Damn it!!
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Post by: noodles256 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:22:10: you have been a member for less than a month. you cant foresee anything except my butt
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Post by: insilica on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:32:00: What butt? :focus:
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 15:35:53: The issue was more about folks who were expecting a quiet keyboard from browns and actually getting a loud one.

Not so much about whether or not you liked the "ringing" sound.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Clickey on Tue, 27 September 2011, 19:31:58: If you hate ping, then you hate mechanical keyboards. Have you ever heard a model M? They could have used one of them as the liberty bell.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 20:01:22: Quote from: Clickey;422371
If you hate ping, then you hate mechanical keyboards. Have you ever heard a model M? They could have used one of them as the liberty bell.

Not really. I currently own 3 mechanical keyboards, none of which have the ringing issue (note: not ping). And I love all of them.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 20:14:54: A ring is much louder and sustained (not sure exactly how much). Probably not many sound samples because it's a sporadic issue and not everyone who experienced it took time to record it when they owned the keyboard.

Seriously, who records the sound of a noisy keyboard? I mean maybe if I DIDN'T have a job...
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Post by: gmorf33 on Tue, 27 September 2011, 20:17:01: Ripster does, in the name of keyboard science!
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Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 20:19:10: Quote from: gmorf33;422406
Ripster does, in the name of keyboard science!

Yes, I know. Hence the "having a job" part of my post.
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Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 21:09:25: Quote from: ripster;422427
How many seconds separates a Ring from a Ping and why aren't there any sound samples with a sustained Ring?

I just answered that. Is this groundhog day?
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 21:14:59: Wow touchy! Didn't you say "men used to be men" at GeekHack?
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Playtrumpet on Tue, 27 September 2011, 21:31:57: Ok. I read a lot.. A LOT about ping on this forum and I never understood the seeming negative connotation the word has.. I LOVE a mechanical ping sound. It just makes the experience more enjoyable to me.

Now, the ping on my C trumpet, THAT requires some repair.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 27 September 2011, 21:39:01: I find the word kind of hilarious myself.

(http://www.keyboardlover.com/img/MarioPing_sm.jpg)
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: gmorf33 on Wed, 28 September 2011, 15:48:37: Quote from: keyboardlover;422444
I find the word kind of hilarious myself.

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That is my text message tone... so maybe i'm biased in my ping favor
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: redpill on Wed, 28 September 2011, 16:15:14: A little ping is fine and expected.

A loud ring (like when the customer service lady down the hall can hear it) becomes annoying and is obviously not what the manufacturer intended.
Title: Filco Ping = angelic choir?
Post by: Wibox on Wed, 28 September 2011, 17:37:38: The pinging from within a switch I am good with, they have springs in them what do you expect? The pinging of a vibrating plate I am not okay with, though.