I have some Amazon vouchers and was looking at purchasing a mechanical keyboard. I did some research and bought this Corsair keyboard with the Cherry MX Red, but having plugged it in and setup after an hour of use I decided I wasn't keen on the noise and sent it back.
Any recommendations or suggestions?
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to type I prefer tactile or clicky ones (Cherry brown or blue), what you didn't like about the noise? too loud?, there are more silent ones, you can also check o-rings for the keycaps, silicon little rings that you put in every key so when they hit the bottom, hits the silicon instead to smash hard plastic with plastic, that will damp some of the noise. Tactile ones have a bump in the actuation point, they usually are better for typing (reds or linear are better for gaming), blues are my favorites, but are noisier, added to the bump they have a clicky sound. I've heard of some extra silent switches but I haven't tried them. They exists in the same model in Amazon.
The o-rings are cheap (about 10USD for a full keyboard) and should work for any Cherry keyboard, you can find them in Amazon or eBay.
Corsair is a very good brand for keyboards by the way. Find a physical store to test different keyboards if you have one available or just get the silent switches and give it a try, personally I don't like linear for typing tho, you have no feedback on the actuation keypress (the key is registered around the middle of the key travel, not in the bottom).
Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've heard good things about corsair part of the reason why I went for that one. I know someone who has a low profile version and that had a good feel when typing on it so I may look into that.
Regarding the noise yeah too loud fine if listening to music but quite often when working from home I don't so that noise would drive me mad. I might look at silent keys and try those. I want the feel of keypress but not necessarily the noise.
I just thought about it, consider also how hard you are typing, red shouldn't be too noisy, maybe you type too heavy for them, try some harder switches blacks or even green, the only noise reds should make are the noise when bottoming, thats exactly the noise o-rings improve, you can get the o-rings and try them on a store's keyboards, check at YT how to put them, you can just put them and taking them off, no damage. to me browns with o-rings are perfect. good luck :)
Maybe I'm a heavy typer haha I hadn't really thought about that. I think I probably will end up going Corsair the quality of the keyboard was good just the noise bothered me so I will look into o-rings thanks for the tip :)
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Thanks for the suggestion but bit out of my price range and I want a proper keyboard not a compact one.