Leopold FC660m- what do they do differently?

[jcoffin1981]

Leopold FC660m- What does Leopold do differently?  I cycle through my boards so they all get some desk time.  I have mostly boards w/ 60-70 % footprints with Gateron and Cherry variants.  I've had the Leo as my driver for a period of time however and dusted off some others and everything is so unusable now. These switches/keycaps have almost no wobble and are incredibly quiet.  There's nothing I hate more than grazing a key thats 2u or larger and you get a horrible rattle.  They just drop these mass-produced switches into their boards.  How come they feel so different?

IDK, I can take all these other boards and build a piece of furniture, like a coffee table or something.

[Cheemio]

Leopold uses clipped and lubed cherry stabs which makes them less rattly than other manufacturer's boards. Although the spacebar on my Leopold FC900R is pretty bad tbh. Doesn't go down evenly and kinda wobbly and noisy. Not sure why when all the other stabilized keys are fine.

[Hyde]

I'm not sure exactly which attribute to this but I could think of a few possible reasons:

- They use step sculpture 2 profile which is kind of like cherry so lower height = less wobble.
- I think they come stock PBT not sure if it does anything.
- Most newer Leopold board have sound dampening cloth/foam in them.
- Usually I find smaller board by nature are sturdier / less flex / more solid feeling, because..... well physics lol.
- They have huge rubber feet so they're super planted on your desk.
- As Cheemio said stock clipped Cherry stabs.

My wife has FC660C which Topre switch while it's a different board but the general build is similar and definitely built like a tank.