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Title: Razer Blackwidow different sound
Post by: malaki on Fri, 15 June 2012, 10:52:50
So I bought a Razer Blackwidow from ebay last year and sold it after one week,
now I bought a new one, and I could swear that it sounds different than the one I had last year

I think the older one sounded much louder (the click),

Does anyone know something about Razer changing something in the Blackwidow?
I mean the switches are the same, but maybe they changed something with the keys , or is it me remembering it louder when it wasn't?

I'm pretty sure because I had a Zowie too at that time too, and I remember the Blackwidow was much louder than the Zowie, I could even hear the clicking with Headphones on listening to loud music,

Now I've got a Keyboard with MX browns here too and the Razer is not louder than the MX Brown

I've also seen a lot of Blackwidow review videos on youtube, and the older ones, (early 2011)
seem to be much louder than the newer ones, Does anyone know something about this?
Title: Razer Blackwidow different sound
Post by: Panoptic on Fri, 15 June 2012, 10:54:25
There's actually two versions of the Blackwidow, one with brown switches and one with blue ones.  Pop off a keycap to see which one you have.
Title: Razer Blackwidow different sound
Post by: malaki on Fri, 15 June 2012, 10:57:24
no the one i had and the one I have  now are both the mx blue version, not silent,
just that the click sound, was much louder on the older one,
Title: Razer Blackwidow different sound
Post by: Lighthouse1 on Fri, 15 June 2012, 12:57:51
I was using one up to today and it was very loud, its  few months old and it was much louder than the Filco brown I am now using. I liked the Razer as it was my first mechanical board. I looked and its still a blue switch version.