Current highest quality Cherry switch board, period? Serious about this.

[Leslieann]

There are places selling customized Filcos, however, it's not difficult to do yourself and there are PLENTY of mods for Filcos (which fit a variety of others as well).

[jcoffin1981]

I have been extremely impressed with the Leopold FC660M.  It's about as quiet as a mechanical keyboard can be and the feel and build quality are great.  I own about 10 keyboards and this is pretty much my daily go-to.  I don't know if spending more is going to help you, but the board cost about $115 dollars.  I could care less for backlighting and other features, but this is pretty much my "endgame."  I experimenting with lubrication, but the switches are super smooth as is.

[typo]

I just got a Leopold. These Guy's talked me into it. Enablers. I went right back to one of my customized Deck Legends. Mind you, in case you did not notice the new Deck's suck and are not even made by TG3. I don't know if you felt my board if you would like it. The actuation force is about 120g. That is not a "Typo". The Leopold is simply not as solid and I actually like the flat profile(DCS). TG3 made the caps though and they are bomb proof.The DEck weighs almost 2 pounds more than the Leopold. For current boards it is a good choice though.

[jcoffin1981]

I just got a Leopold. These Guy's talked me into it. Enablers. I went right back to one of my customized Deck Legends. Mind you, in case you did not notice the new Deck's suck and are not even made by TG3. I don't know if you felt my board if you would like it. The actuation force is about 120g. That is not a "Typo". The Leopold is simply not as solid and I actually like the flat profile(DCS). TG3 made the caps though and they are bomb proof.The DEck weighs almost 2 pounds more than the Leopold. For current boards it is a good choice though.

I found cherry clears too heavy for me, so I could not use a switch that is 120g, or gf, or cn, whatever the right label is. 
Unfortunately this is all very subjective and even if a board is endorsed by 50 percent of the community, YOU have to like it or it's useless.  I'm lubing my switches and want to experiment with a spring that is slightlyheavier, but it may not be worth the labor.

[typo]

Completely agree.

[dante]

Agreed.  Got into MX Clears and kept trying to convince myself they were so awesome because everyone else said so.

They weren't bad per say but my typing speed dropped around 20wpm.  Once I went back to Browns I felt like I was on vacation.

[jcoffin1981]

In my experience, Filco and newer Leopolds are some of the best pre-built keyboards I've seen in terms of quality.

As for the people here saying WASD's Code Keyboard is of high quality.. I've seen quite a few of those boards lately where a switch wasn't working or an LED or two wasn't lighting up. One of my friends had to send it back two times before he got one that was in perfect working order.

For any of these keyboards, you're probably going to want to swap out the keycaps.

^ Pretty much this.  The advantage of Leopold is that it come with stock thick PBT so you don't need to change keycaps.  It also has pre-clipped Cherry stabilizers.

Is this right, the stabilizers are modified?  I haven't noticed and will have to look.  What is the advantage of this?

[jnav]

My vote is Leopold. They're solid.

[typo]

Yeah I got one! unfortunately now they just announced Double shot PBT. Should have waited.

Clear with Grey spring and friction modifier is the absolute best to me. My WPM is very high but that is not my concern. I ant to enjoy typing. Since I have to do it a lot. I code.
Many people would think that is way too heavy. First, the friction modifier makes for something entirely different and Second I am a huge man. Not fat. So if you figure each hand weighs 10+ pounds then you understand me at least. I would not recommend Clears to most people let alone with Grey springs in them. I would tell most people start with Brown or Blue.

[jcoffin1981]

I don't get how that's a bad thing, unless people (a) enjoy punching walls for fun as well, (b) need the keyboard to be sufficiently different to justify the purchase.

My Filco TKL has an extra thick stainless steel plate inside a Vortex aluminum case, while stiff, it's still not like punching a wall.

I have yet to use a Cherry keyboard without a plate that didn't come across as barely better than a cheap rubber dome keyboard.

I have a Cherry mX 3.0.  I do like the profile of the keycaps, but yes the feel of the board was not much better than a standard Dell.

[klennkellon]

I don't get how that's a bad thing, unless people (a) enjoy punching walls for fun as well, (b) need the keyboard to be sufficiently different to justify the purchase.

My Filco TKL has an extra thick stainless steel plate inside a Vortex aluminum case, while stiff, it's still not like punching a wall.

I have yet to use a Cherry keyboard without a plate that didn't come across as barely better than a cheap rubber dome keyboard.

I have a Cherry mX 3.0.  I do like the profile of the keycaps, but yes the feel of the board was not much better than a standard Dell.

Cherry seems to build their keyboards to only be just "good enough".