« previous next »
Pages:  [1]     Go Down

Author Topic: Spring sounds?  (Read 1323 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Holzmann

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 4
Spring sounds?
« on: Wed, 13 April 2011, 18:03:25 »
I posted about my new Filco Tenkeyless with Cherry Blues a week or so back and I'm still loving the sound and feel of it, but I've started noticing that the springs of some keys have a bit of a "klang" after I hit them that kind of reverberates a tiny bit through the keyboard. It's definitely audible if you listen for it.

I've never had a mechanical keyboard, so forgive my ignorance if this is normal and maybe part of the "breaking-in process", but the fact that it's not like that on every key is throwing me off. Are all springs on a mech keyboard not created equal?

This isn't really a gripe, I'm more curious than anything.
Logged

Offline MrSneis

  • Posts: 126
Spring sounds?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 13 April 2011, 18:07:32 »
Are you bottoming out the keys as you type?
Logged
Filco Tenkeyless Brown | Filco Tenkeyless-2 Blue | Leopold Tenkeyless Blue

Offline Holzmann

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 4
Spring sounds?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 13 April 2011, 18:13:22 »
Quote from: MrSneis;330241
Are you bottoming out the keys as you type?

Oh hell yes. I'm going all-in with the "typewriter sound". The strange thing is that I'm only hearing this on a few keys even though I'm hitting them all with the same relative force.
Logged

Offline canon.tk

  • Posts: 149
Spring sounds?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 13 April 2011, 18:56:14 »
That sound is normal.  Some boards do it worse than others.
Logged
Filco Majestouch 104 Cherry MX Black; Filco Majestouch 87 Ninja Cherry MX Brown; Filco Majestouch Indigo Blue 104 Cherry MX Brown; Filco Majestouch 2 104 Cherry MX Red; Leopold 87 Otaku Cherry MX Brown; Leopold 87 Cherry MX Brown; Razer Black Widow Ultimate

Offline canon.tk

  • Posts: 149
Spring sounds?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 13 April 2011, 19:35:00 »
My Filco with browns doesn't do it.
My Filco with blacks doesn't do it.
My Filco with reds does it a little bit.
My friend's Filco with browns does it a lot (makes a strong ping sound)
My Black Widow Ultimate doesn't do it.
Logged
Filco Majestouch 104 Cherry MX Black; Filco Majestouch 87 Ninja Cherry MX Brown; Filco Majestouch Indigo Blue 104 Cherry MX Brown; Filco Majestouch 2 104 Cherry MX Red; Leopold 87 Otaku Cherry MX Brown; Leopold 87 Cherry MX Brown; Razer Black Widow Ultimate

Offline Findecanor

  • Posts: 5084
  • Location: Koriko
Spring sounds?
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 14 April 2011, 02:47:53 »
None of my browns, blues or clears have it. My plate-mounted black doesn't do it, but my PCB-mounted black does it ...

Why? Did Cherry get cheaper springs for a batch of switches or what?
Logged
🍉

Offline The Solutor

  • Posts: 2262
Spring sounds?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 14 April 2011, 02:57:43 »
Quote from: Findecanor;330453
None of my browns, blues or clears have it. My plate-mounted black doesn't do it, but my PCB-mounted black does it ...

Why? Did Cherry get cheaper springs for a batch of switches or what?


Just noticed after reading this thread, the Q key has this sorta of echo on my brown keyboard, none of the blues has it, both are plate mounted.

Likely is just a production tolerance.
Logged
The problem with quotes on the Internet is you never know if they are true  (Abraham Lincoln)

Offline Holzmann

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 4
Spring sounds?
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 14 April 2011, 03:52:41 »
Quote from: ripster;330282
Browns can have it too.  Varies from keyboard to keyboard.  You can hear it in my MegaSoundSampleRoundup.

Yeah I definitely heard it at 38-40 seconds in your Cherry Blues sample.

I'm glad I'm not going crazy. Does the sound change over time or does it stay relatively constant regardless of use?
Logged

woody

  •  Guest
Spring sounds?
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 14 April 2011, 04:29:39 »
Try putting some kind of a soft mat under the keyboard. For one, my desk has resonance in the audible range and makes every keyboard sound loud.
Logged
Pages:  [1]     Go Up
« previous next »