Blind test: keyboard sound comparison challenge
Posted: 15 Dec 2018, 20:49
Hello fellows,
recently we've seen some controvery about the sound of keyboards and different switches and manufacturers. Talking about switches is of course always a very emotional thing cause everybody has its own preference and where nobody is objective. So I thought it would be a fun thing to have a random selection of keyboard recordings where people rate them without knowing what it is
Yesterday I took 11 board of my collection with linear or tactile switches (no ibm stuff included cause there is no real point to have two clicky switches included where everybody knows how they sound
). Also the sound of the way a board is built and the switch sound itself is way more noticeable with "silent" switches. To have a somehow decent comparison I put my microphone at one point on the desk and then record one board after another.
The selection of boards include MX boards, self build boards, alps boards and topre. To make this a fun comparison I'd suggest that people rate all 11 boards on a scale from 0-10. 0 is a horrible sound, 0-4 is a negative rating for a board, 5 is a neutral rating and 6-10 is a positive pleasent sound (while 10 is obviously the best). Of course you can also write more about specific boards, speculate about which switch or board it is. The list of recorded keyboards will be posted next weekend.
Please be civil this time, I tried my best with the recording quality and please excuse if some custom boards are not perfectly modded, I'm not the best keyboard builder and I'm not so sensitive to keyboard sounds. Here we go:
recently we've seen some controvery about the sound of keyboards and different switches and manufacturers. Talking about switches is of course always a very emotional thing cause everybody has its own preference and where nobody is objective. So I thought it would be a fun thing to have a random selection of keyboard recordings where people rate them without knowing what it is
Yesterday I took 11 board of my collection with linear or tactile switches (no ibm stuff included cause there is no real point to have two clicky switches included where everybody knows how they sound
). Also the sound of the way a board is built and the switch sound itself is way more noticeable with "silent" switches. To have a somehow decent comparison I put my microphone at one point on the desk and then record one board after another. The selection of boards include MX boards, self build boards, alps boards and topre. To make this a fun comparison I'd suggest that people rate all 11 boards on a scale from 0-10. 0 is a horrible sound, 0-4 is a negative rating for a board, 5 is a neutral rating and 6-10 is a positive pleasent sound (while 10 is obviously the best). Of course you can also write more about specific boards, speculate about which switch or board it is. The list of recorded keyboards will be posted next weekend.
Please be civil this time, I tried my best with the recording quality and please excuse if some custom boards are not perfectly modded, I'm not the best keyboard builder and I'm not so sensitive to keyboard sounds. Here we go:
