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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: shockwave on Sat, 28 April 2012, 00:20:38
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I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, the Kinesis Advantage. As standard, it came with Cherry MX Brown switches. These browns is what's going to work best for this particular keyboard, since I got it to use it at work. There are alot of software developers and project managers around the wing of the building where I sit, yet it is very quiet around. So quiet, in fact, that I find the keystrokes of my Kinesis more noticeable than my previous keyboard, the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard something, which is a rubber dome keyboard. Although I normally bottom out when striking the keys (it's gonna take some time to undo that habit), I did my best to have various keypress forces, to eliminate the sound of bottoming out as much as possible. Most of the sound comes from the keys being pushed down, not from bottoming.
I ordered the 40A-O-rings from here this website: wasdkeyboard dot com
I hope they help dampen the sound of bottoming. I wish there was a way to make the actuation sound quieter. Oh well, it's a decibel level with which I can live.
I was looking at some youtube videos of the Advantage. My keyboard sounds sorta like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYNiOq8XoQ&feature=related
It it just me, or does this other kinesid advantage sound different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dU_HNKALBM
For some reason, I really like the way they keyboard in that last video sounds. Do you guys think the keyboard in that last video has blue switches? If that's the case, I wouldn't mind getting a kinesis with blue switches for home, since I can make as much noise as I want there.