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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: terrpn on Fri, 07 March 2014, 13:12:34
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wow............brought my mx red, 1800 to the office, have been using all day and no complaints :thumb:
blues, browns, clears, blacks, alps, bs............all got comments, but maybe this one is a keeper
i could really care less, but you know how it goes :cool:
i personally like clicking, thocking, hammering-- it's a symphony to us.......... :-*
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I'm surprised the blacks or clears bothered anyone, they seem pretty quiet to me.
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I think you recalibrated your co-workers' ears when you brought in all those other keyboards. I think now they just think the MX Reds are quiet enough. Good idea honestly.
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My wife got zero complaints from her Filco with blacks. But her work enviroment is fairly noisy with the machinery running. She works in a photo lab that does all sorts of stuff, from banners to posters, to metal prints to mouse pads.
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I think you recalibrated your co-workers' ears when you brought in all those other keyboards. I think now they just think the MX Reds are quiet enough. Good idea honestly.
ha!
yea...........my blacks r vintage and quiet, so i was surprised and now that you mention it the clears with the thick pbt caps are not that loud?
reckon i am easier on the reds i guess
bunch of people with nothing else to complain about...........funny how they all envy the boards though ain't it :p
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I think you recalibrated your co-workers' ears when you brought in all those other keyboards. I think now they just think the MX Reds are quiet enough. Good idea honestly.
Wow... mind blown. It makes perfect sense :D
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im using my topre typeheaven at work
about the same noise as my co-workers dell USB Rubberdomes lol.
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I've used blues, greens and blacks at work. People only seem to notice the backlighting and custom keycaps.
I was doing something repetitive one day, and someone actually said the sound of typing was hypnotic.
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I suspect the only reason they comment on the noise of your board is because they're not doing any work, so notice more that you are. :))
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Congratulations on finding a keyboard that you can use at your office! :thumb:
I was on a similar quest about a year ago and I found the audio of a mechanical is dependent upon both the switch as well as the key cap and even the case. Thick PBT sound noticeably different than thin ABS for example and a case that lays flat on my desk is noticeably quieter as well.
Personally, I'm using MX-Black with the SA profile from Commando 23, which sounds very muted compared to the Round 3 set I used previously and since I'm on the phone a good bit, I think I have it really dialed in for a quiet mechanical keyboard for my office.
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What about the concept that if people hear the key clicks they know that you are working?
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Interestingly, my WASD KB (browns) is too loud, but my pingmaster KB is acceptable.
I hate the fact that the browns are quieter than the RDs everyone else uses.
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When I first got my filco with browns at job, my director was not so happy because of the sound. So I told him I would get O-rings and it would be much better. I did and never had any complaint.
Recently I bought a F122 and since I fell in love with it, I decided to bring it to the job. I was scared someone would complain about it, but they must have accepted that I have a keyboard hobbyist and I got no complaint at all. Some people even found my F122 "cool", others just considered my weird, but only because of the look of the keyboard, not the sound.
I suspect that my F122 is intimidating everyone so they don't dare complain about it lol!
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What about the concept that if people hear the key clicks they know that you are working?
ha!
one of the things i would hear with my other boards is how sorry a typist i am.......thank you and your mothers mustache too scooter
brutha can't get a break :eek:
i mean we do have a life, i get it.........and this may sound tedious- but come on...........getta life
people can be a trip. i have my own office, yet somebody down the hallway takes the initiative to comment on a keyboard. guess it broke their concentration and woke them up :))
anybody know what the loudest our out there?
i like that (dorkvader)..........my F122 must be intimidating everybody :thumb: