Mechanical keyboards with the least amount of pinging?

[mkawa]

notice: people can't even agree whether two samples of the same board make anywhere near the same noise!

this is the beauty of keyboards for the enthusiast. if you're a highly sensitive person that gets a lot of out of the tactility, noise, etc. of your input devices, there are an unlimited number of different combinations of those things for you to try

[Maarten]

this is the beauty of keyboards for the enthusiast. if you're a highly sensitive person that gets a lot of out of the tactility, noise, etc. of your input devices, there are an unlimited number of different combinations of those things for you to try

Yeah..

Basically if a member here's says his board doesn't ping it either doesn't ping or the person simply does not notice it.
If a member says his board does ping it either does or the person is making it up....

So basically youre fooked and youll just have to try ALL THE BOARDS IN ZHE WORLD for yourself (or simply become less sensitive and stick with what works).

Also a great alternative btw;
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[variant]

Do ML switches ping as loud or differently?

Also, anyone know the RKO of the Cherry G84-4420?

[didjamatic]

Rubber domes never ping.
Topre switches ping a bit because of the metallic spring.
Cherry switches ping a lot because there are metallic components everywhere.
From what I eavesdropped.

I'm very susceptible to ping/plate reverb but I've never heard a Topre ping.  Topre's Thock.  The spring inside a Topre dome is so light gauge that it ringing couldn't be perceptible.
Plate mounted switches Ping
PCB mounted switches Pong

I have no idea what that means.

Posted from a Ricercar MX SPOS with PCB mounted browns and zero ping.

[mkawa]

it means buy some boards, enjoy the ride. if you reach a point of utter frustration, go back to RDs and scissors and sell everything off; hope you had fun.

[variant]

Is the upcoming Gigabyte mechanical keyboard plate mounted?

it means buy some boards, enjoy the ride. if you reach a point of utter frustration, go back to RDs and scissors and sell everything off; hope you had fun.

That would take a good amount of money which I don't have.

[stingrae]

notice: people can't even agree whether two samples of the same board make anywhere near the same noise!

Well actually there's a few potential logical explanations

1. We are in different climates (i'm currently in winter and yes it gets chilly in Africa, not as bad as England but it can be worse as the house doesn't have central heating/double glazing/insulation).
2. Probably not using the same desks
3. Rooms have different reverb properties e.g. Singing in the shower always sounds fuller than singing in the lounge..
4. Our hearing ranges might be slightly different e.g. My friend can't tell the difference between $9 headphones vs $100~ apart from comfort...
5. Given that it is just certain keys perhaps the 'problem' lies in the springs in some cases (not too sure this makes much sense)

End of the day I think you have to expect some noise of the metalic ping with cherry mx switches. If it's too much for you then return the board no real harm in that, it is likely that some boards will 'ping' less or more when newer or in certain conditions..

[variant]

I think ultimately the problem wasn't the subtle pinging I got on all keys, but the handful of keys that pinged loudly when the key was released.

[limmy]

Here is a copy of my post at DT. Applying pressure on sound producing materials is a good way to reduce vibration(the sound). In your case, putting some elastic material between the metal plate and the PCB would also help. Non-slip pad or memory foam will do the job. Non-slip pad are sold in grocery stores, Target, Walmart, and etc.

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/ping-noise-on-the-cm-storm-trigger-t2906.html

You can reduce the sound by putting some foam material under the PCB, so that the foam would build tension between PCB and the bottom case. (At least, this method worked for me on my G80-3700 numpad. I didn't think PCB mounted boards would ping, but it did. The fix didn't completely get rid of the sound but it reduced it significantly. If I put more foam inside, I might be able to eliminate it, but I am content with my current fix, so I wouldn't bother.)

However, this fix would void warranty in your case because disassembling it would damage the warranty sticker. The pinging/ringing sound is pretty much unavoidable (yet very annoying to some people) in most mechanical keyboards with springs, so if you are bothered by it and not willing to fix it, I think it would be best to return it.

[variant]

If only keyboard manufacturers would look into doing that. I can't do it as I don't want to void my warranty as money is tight and simply having the money to replace it sometime in the near future may not be an option.