I waffle back and forth between my Filco with MX Browns and a Topre 87U.
But I will say, though, that when I tried out the Topre for the very first time, I liked it a lot. I was not disappointed at all. The switches are just so much smoother and less wobbly than MX switches. People can say all they want about rubber domes, but there is no denying, that the key stems on Topre switches are smoother and less wobbly.
I think the main problem with people not liking Topre immediately is because of the negative bias towards rubber dome boards that the mechanical keyboard community has in general.
Right, that's kind of how it appears, to me, too. People want to feel "special" for liking mechanical keyboards, so they automatically bash anything that has rubber in it. But when I view these keyboards holistically, the Topre has a lot of great things going for it (the smoother switches, and the fact that they come with dyesub PBT's (which makes the boards a much better deal than people make them out to be - a Filco with a set of dyesub PBT's will cost just as much as a Topre)), that for some reason, people just either not notice at all, or outright dismiss.
As of right now, I'm using a Filco with MX Browns, but this thread definitely has me missing the Topre. I seem to type more accurately, therefore more quickly, on the Topre, as well - these MX switches are comparatively finnicky in that you have to strike the switch at a particular angle in order for the keys to go down properly. But Topre switches are built so much better that you can strike them at any angle and still have the switch go down. But then again, bonus points go to the MX Brown switches in that they're more "fun" and mechanical to type on. I may go back to the Topre after all this, who knows. FWIW.
