thanks for sharing your experience..I've read a lot of threads and posts on geekhack and r/MK
i never had have experience with cherry so i really dont have idea how they feel like , many ppl on r/MK says bad thing about cherry such as silent red feels mushy , scratchy , and pinging which makes me hasitate to buy leopold witrh cherry switch
i like the sound of silent red ,i watched leopold typing test with silent red on youtube and the sound reminded me of silent topre which is i like it ,but do they sound like that in real life?
You're welcome. If you have never tried Cherry before, I imagine you haven't tried any mechanical switches. Unless you're not very picky (most of the people you're reading comments from on Reddit seem to be), you probably want to get as comprehensive of a switch tester as you can find at a good price and play with everything on it before you even start to form opinions on what type of switch you want. From there you can start narrowing down what you may like. I
usually recommend this because it comes with a lot of different switches for relatively cheap and has some duplicates (other than housing material) that can be swapped for more botique switches you acquire. Cheap hot swap boards (that do not have Outemu sockets) are a good next step for having a complete board for testing authentic feel and sound with switches you think may be a good contender.
As I have mentioned, Cherry retools switches from time to time, and I have not tried any "hyperglide" variants, to my knowledge. Any given batch of Cherry switches may feel a little different from the one that preceded it. Most dampened switches will feel a little mushy on bottom out, but nothing that doesn't have a rubber dome is going to feel just like a rubber dome. Dampening on most switches traditionally/colloquially called "mechanical" is usually achieved by a tiny piece of rubber on either side of the slider that cushions its impact when making contact with the housing. This is a lot different from coming down on what's effectively a big silicone mat, in addition to collapsing an integrated dome that is also part of that same mat. Older and/or more expensive rubber dome designs can also have discrete domes that may collapse on different surfaces, like a membrane or PCB, and may or may not have sliders as well. In that way, even a lot of rubber dome variants can feel and sound very different from each other. Personally, for gaming, I would prefer silent MX red to any tactile switch I have tried. For typing, linears are pretty bland (but some people apparently like that).
Yeah mx updated I believe only mx black,brown, red, and silver with the new hyperglides. Mx silent red is rated still of 50 mill clicks while the new glides including mx red have 100 million due to the self lubing/cleaning contacts.
the new hyperglides seem promising , why they didnt updated their silent switch? i also read they retooled they switch back then but ony several switch except mx clear and mx silent..because they're not popular? or maybe not profitable?
Probably because Cherry thinks their tooling specific to the silent variants still has life left in it, since they're still a relatively new offering.
If you like the sound of Topre, and want something silent/dampened, why isn't Topre in the running? I think a good dome board feels better than any MX derivative I have tried besides
maybe Gateron and Outemu blues.