The overall recording was within a decibel of the MX Board Silent. The Apple Magic Keyboard proved an interesting contrast. At first I thought it didn’t record properly looking at the waveform, it just looked like the room tone.
This becomes more stark at a distance of 5-feet. Overall, compared to the rather piecing and crisp sound of the MX Cherry Brown, the MX Board Silent comes across as much more muddy, allowing it to blend into the background better. So what did we find in our results? The audio backs up my initial impression, the MX Board Silent is significantly quieter than the Rosewill. Sound from 4-Inches AwayĮditor’s Note: The audio for the MBP from 5-feet away was corrupted and we didn’t have access to the same microphone to record it again. Note: I make no pretensions of being anything other than a slow typist.
We typed out the first sentence of Jorge Luis Borges The Library of Babel to stay relatively consistent. Here are the keyboards we tested, switches are in parentheses:įor each keyboard, we recorded audio from 4″ and 5″ away, to give a reasonable sense of how noisy it would be for the typer and officemates. So does it deliver on the process? We put it to the test. The idea for this switch was to make a mechanical keyboard more practical in a office or group setting. However being relatively quiet as a mechanical keyboard may not be all that quiet overall. If it wasn’t, Cherry would have really screwed up. It won’t be surprising to learn that the MX Cherry Silent switch is noticeably quieter than what I’m used to with mechanical keyboards. This may be noticeable for someone who’s been using a standard Black switch for a while, but in my experience, I didn’t notice the travel to feel “short” in any meaningful way. The only difference between the silent and standard switches is a slightly shorter key travel, down to 3.7mm from 4mm.
Otherwise the switch has the same smooth and predictable action that Cherry’s linear switches are known for. Up until these silent versions, mechanical keyboard users could only add rubber gaskets to keycaps to help reduce noice. These switches take some of their oldest models, the linear MX Cherry Black and Red, and add a tiny thermoplastic elastomer shock absorber to the sliding mechanism. But even so-called non-clicky switches can be noisy comparatively.Ĭherry, the company perhaps most associated with keyboard switches, is aware of this, coming out with the MX Silent line of switches last year. Some keyboard switches revel in their ability to generate a minor cacophony, such as the OG IBM Model M buckling springs, or the MX Cherry Blue. While the varieties in switches and keycaps make any generalization about the category difficult, one aspect of incorporating a physical switch is near universal: sound. If they can’t make you use a touch screen, they’re making keyboards as lifeless as them.Īs a reaction to this, the difference with any mechanical keyboard is stark.
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When keyboards are unavoidable, Apple and the PC vendors have moved to making them a flat, uniform landscape of chiclet keys with almost imperceptible actuations. Touch screen are the current standard for computer interaction. In some ways, the entire concept of a mechanical keyboard is anachronistic. I don’t know when I started to love mechanical keyboards, but I do.
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