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Title: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Strelok on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:11:45
Hardmode: No buckling springs.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Halverson on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:12:46
Anything Chuck Norris touches.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: jabar on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:13:26
get out of here stalker

more serious: maybe Greens since they're not as bright sounding as Blues and (supposedly) louder than Whites. And I'm sure there's some pretty robust-sounding ALPS (clones) out there.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Halverson on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:15:06
Replace all your springs with pen springs, may not sounds the manliest...but they will feel the manliest.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: jabar on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:16:37
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Halverson on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:17:36
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

Superblacks have nothing on pen springs
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: jabar on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:18:24
Superblacks have nothing on pen springs
Granted, but pen strings never made it into production switches!
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Strelok on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:18:52
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Halverson on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:19:36
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.

We've evolved to just "manliest switches" because really, what's louder than a buckling spring? An clicky Cherry switch?
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: jabar on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:19:59
The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.
Manliest in the sense that you can point to your keyboard when asked "do you even lift?"
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Strelok on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:21:10
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.

We've evolved to just "manliest switches" because really, what's louder than a buckling spring? An clicky Cherry switch?

Optical switches that use lasers and make the PowerPoint 2007 Laser sound when pressed.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Halverson on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:21:51
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.

We've evolved to just "manliest switches" because really, what's louder than a buckling spring? An clicky Cherry switch?

Optical switches that use lasers and make the PowerPoint 2007 Laser sound when pressed.

Well kiss my grits! You've just gone over my head!
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 15 February 2013, 00:44:08
Pretty sure REAL MEN do NOT play around with keyboards or send emails....

Real men are all out banging chix and smoking and drinking...


So unless you find a keyswitch that makes the ooo-s and ahhh-s that a women makes while wet, and at the end of the keystroke, the sound of a tree falling over coupled with murderous sounds of a chainsaw.... NO switch is manly..
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: daerid on Fri, 15 February 2013, 01:34:02
Buckling Spring, hands down.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Strelok on Fri, 15 February 2013, 01:41:07
Pretty sure REAL MEN do NOT play around with keyboards or send emails....

Real men are all out banging chix and smoking and drinking...


So unless you find a keyswitch that makes the ooo-s and ahhh-s that a women makes while wet, and at the end of the keystroke, the sound of a tree falling over coupled with murderous sounds of a chainsaw.... NO switch is manly..

Dedicating your existence to satisfying women is not manly at all.

Dedicating your existence to making the loudest noise is amiable.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 15 February 2013, 05:28:18
Pretty sure REAL MEN do NOT play around with keyboards or send emails....

Real men are all out banging chix and smoking and drinking...


So unless you find a keyswitch that makes the ooo-s and ahhh-s that a women makes while wet, and at the end of the keystroke, the sound of a tree falling over coupled with murderous sounds of a chainsaw.... NO switch is manly..

Dedicating your existence to satisfying women is not manly at all.

Dedicating your existence to making the loudest noise is amiable.

clearly you are so detached from manliness that you saw my statement from a vagina's perspective.

Men out getting p00n to please themselves.. that was my perspective..

You're obviously some whipped turkey with its head in the sand :D
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Krogenar on Fri, 15 February 2013, 08:12:21
The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.
Manliest in the sense that you can point to your keyboard when asked "do you even lift?"

Having experienced MX Greens (and since BS are ruled out) -- I would go with the Greens. They make a satisfying chunka-chunka ("gonna lay down some sheetrock") sort of sound. I can only imagine that Blues make a *tink*tink* ("Those shoes look FAB-YUH-LOUS!") sound, which is rather feminine. BS don't even enter into the discussion, because they're secure enough in their masculinity.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: wolfofsin on Fri, 15 February 2013, 09:18:41
Anything Chuck Norris touches.

It is understood Chuck Norris will never use a keycap name Cherry. For that manner Chuck Norris is beyond keycaps and touch typing for that manner. He thinks and it appears on screen.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 15 February 2013, 09:27:48
I would have to hear the definition of this term, in relation to sound, before I named a switch, however:

As a 60-year-old husband and father, over 6' and 100 kilogram current active Tae Kwon Do black belt, I can wear a pink shirt and nobody will question my manhood for a nanosecond.

My keyboard of choice, with the sound and feel I consider most pleasing and appropriate, is a flossed, padded Model F. The perfect combination of all ergonomic factors, in my opinion. Its 8-1/4 pound (3.75 kg) weight is part of its character, along with its 195 square inch (a whopping 1/8 of a square meter!) footprint.

All Cherry switches sound like plastic to me, with blues and greens feeling best but sounding worst.

Alps are similar but better in sound, and may or may not feel great.

Pretty much everything else pretty much sounds like nothing.



Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: uzoc on Fri, 15 February 2013, 09:37:41
The manliest might be a board full of Super Blacks (150 cN activation)

hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

The only sound linear keys make though are bottom outs, right? My Blacks are silent if I type like a secretary.

We've evolved to just "manliest switches" because really, what's louder than a buckling spring? An clicky Cherry switch?

Optical switches that use lasers and make the PowerPoint 2007 Laser sound when pressed.

Yes, any of the "lasers". "space rim shot" is not bad, either. Sounds attached!
Title: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: daerid on Fri, 15 February 2013, 10:24:35
Lest we forget: tp is from Jersey
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 15 February 2013, 20:59:57
hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

what's a dark grey?
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Strelok on Fri, 15 February 2013, 21:05:15
hop to it Ducky! (in other news, there will be full-board Dark Greys coming out soon!)

what's a dark grey?

It's like a heavy black, meant for space bars.
Title: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: ekw808 on Fri, 15 February 2013, 21:41:59
Lest we forget: tp is from Jersey

Not everyone from jersey is an *******.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Hak Foo on Fri, 15 February 2013, 23:19:53
Can't you just figure out what switches they use on Gurren Lagann?  Isn't that the default source of manliness?
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Binge on Sat, 16 February 2013, 00:06:58
Am I mistaken in thinking white alps used to be called "strongman" switches?
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Michael on Sat, 16 February 2013, 01:42:40
The heavy 'thock' of 55g Topre's on a RealForce board have got to be the manliest sounding switches on earth.

 :cool:
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: rootwyrm on Sat, 16 February 2013, 02:23:10
Am I mistaken in thinking white alps used to be called "strongman" switches?

You are not; the White Complicated was marketed as the "Strongman" due to it's 75cN(+-25cN) activation force.
However, the SMK is probably the absolute toughest sounding switch there is. It clicks with a deep authority, on activation and on return. However, listening to me type on just about anything has been described as the manliest thing ever. Just because it tends to resemble a minigun. Even if they aren't clicky switches. (Or especially because they aren't clicky. MX Blacks with shoddy ABS caps, looking at YOU.)
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 16 February 2013, 06:06:53
Lest we forget: tp is from Jersey
I thought he was from New Jersey ...  :confused:
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: Hyde on Sat, 16 February 2013, 07:18:33
Can't you just figure out what switches they use on Gurren Lagann?  Isn't that the default source of manliness?

They don't use switches they use drills  :P

Also to my understanding that the manliest switch that you can still buy and is not buckling spring would be the Clicky ALPS from Matias.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: quadibloc on Sat, 16 February 2013, 11:22:30
It's a pity that IBM doesn't manufacture beam spring keyboards for the IBM PC. Such a keyboard would have been the appropriate answer to this question.
Title: Re: What are the manliest sounding switches?
Post by: lazerpointer on Sat, 16 February 2013, 12:31:38
No buckling springs?  :-\ then it would have to be Cherry browns with soft .2mm o-rings