I don't think there is anything warm in the sound of an unmodified Topre switch. The sound of plastic against plastic is what is suppressed, and if anything I think the silenced keyboard has a warmer, smoother sound. Maybe the warmth you are talking about was somehow in the resonance of the case, and if so you can just leave the voids unfilled. Or maybe it was in the low frequencies that produces the desk when it reacts to the shocks on the keyboard and in this case you can remove the rubber foam feet. It is rather easy to "tune" the sound of the keyboard.
But I prefer it as silent as possible.
What is the plastic against plastic? On the way up you mean?
I'm talking about on the way down..it doesn't quite sound as warm as a Type S...although some may prefer it that way (I'm not saying which is better, just what my observation, flawed or not, is).
I do think it is interesting that it has made it more sensitive..I didn't think about that but it makes sense...not allowing it to go all the way up means it is closer to actuation....Have you seen any issues w/ it doing a "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" type thing people have with the variables because the 30g are so light?
Plastic against plastic is on the upstroke (the way up). I insert slimmed down landing pads on the stem (plunger) to almost eliminate this "click" noise.
On Cherry MX switches, the landing pads are used to dampen the downstroke, so I guess that's how my mod could be misunderstood.
The sound of the downstroke is not changed at all by the landing pads mod on Topre. However, filling the voids in the case and adding foam rubber feet probably changed this sound by eliminating the resonances in the case itself, and the low frequency resonance of the desk (yes, your desk participates in the sound of your keyboard).
If you just put landing pads and don't mod anything else, the sound of the downstroke is unchanged.
What the mod does is the same thing you do when you press a key and release your finger slowly so it does not make noise on the upstroke. Just that.
The Type-S Topre keyboards do not alter the sound of the downstroke either. As far as I can tell, they have a flat silicone ring on the stem, exactly where I put landing pads. What is silenced is always the upstroke.
There is no real need to silence the downstroke, as it is already very soft: of the downstroke the stem (plunger) presses on the rubber dome and so there is not hard shock because the top of the dome is rather thick.
Yes, I see issues with "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", but I already had them before modding the board. Maybe the key is even more sensitive now, a little bit, but anyway on the Realforce you must have light fingers on the side keys. You can rest them on F and J without any problem however.
The issue I had after reassembling the keyboard was that I did not notice that one key was stuck. Before putting back all the screws, I just screw a few of them, I plug the keyboard and I test every key. I did not test well enough and I did not notice that the "2" key was stuck. It was not permanently stuck, but depending on how I pressed on the key sometimes it stayed activated. While fixing this, I noticed that the landing pad had not been slimmed down at all by the ironing process. Or maybe I just forgot to iron it. I replaced it with another one (I always do a few more), and that was it.
