It s a soft solid compared to the hard solid of a normal stem slamming against the bottom housing.
Cherry silent red switches reddit.
I use silent reds on my work driver.
With all that in mind my recommendation would be to order 1 or 2 keyboards with non clicky keys perhaps one brown one silent red and cherry profile relatively flat keycaps if possible on a board that doesn t have a lot of metal in it.
The key cap is attached on the upper part of the stem.
However the silent reds and the browns will have the same actuation force.
Due to the straight tls surface the switch triggers directly.
Silent is an often abused word by marketers and these supposedly noiseless variants of the cherry mx red switch have not been stuffed with motor oil and cotton to form the world s first.
People that try them don t even believe they re mechanical switches.
The stem of mx silent switches is made of two components and contains integrated patented noise reduction technology.
Cherry mx speed is a red switch with a higher actuation point than normal ostensibly to allow for faster reaction time in gaming.
Today we re checking out cherry mx silent switches.
Silent reds and silent blacks are the same exact switch with different springs reds have 45g springs and blacks have 60g springs both of these are going to feel super different since browns are tactile and the silents are linear.
Personally i absolutely love cherry silent switches though i much prefer blacks compared to the reds generally featured in gaming boards.
The first silent switch i ever tried was a cherry rgb silent red through a send in lubrication order.
After that order was done i knew i needed some silents.
You mention that the stabilizers are much harsher than the silenced switches which makes sense.
This pink switching slide is responsible for the linear switch characteristics of the cherry mx silent red.
Try them out for a few moments and see if you can get used to them and return them as needed.
They re whisper quite and buttery smooth.
I got my hands on some black housing silent blacks but those had more scratch to them because of the black housings.
I ll be comparing them against other switches in a sound test near the end of the video.
Cherry mx silent is a red switch with a tiny tab on the bottom and near the top of the slider which softens both downstroke and upstroke but in my opinion it doesn t feel great.