Gazzew sells silent stems by themselves, and his are the most quiet
You have me quite intrigued. Though, how long are the center shafts? I do believe Gateron opticals utilize stems with longer shafts than those of typical mechanical keyboards. I also wonder if he makes stems that won’t extend the travel distance, since I wish to have it as low as possible. I don’t post on Reddit, but your SSS Panda switches sound solid. Is that the only place to contact him?
Ironically enough, it seems :3ildcat made a video on X-bow’s keyboard which includes Optical Silent Silvers back in late May:
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I’d searched many times, but it never came up in my search results until now. I truly have no idea how or why. He didn’t showcase the switches for long, but from what I saw, your theory appears to be correct. You can see it a bit around two minutes into the video. This is the only video with even a glimpse of these switches that I have seen to date. Not super quiet, but not bad for a stock switch at all. Just image how they could be
Is it possible to get samples / purchase a small number of them for experimenting? That’s usually do with switches I’m curious about.
I don’t think so, since as far as I’m aware, they are not really focused on being a components vendor so much as selling $200-$250 keyboards. I’m no influencer or well-known enthusiast either, so I doubt they would oblige me. Still, the prospect of just slipping in an alternative stem isn’t something I considered until now. Invyrs sounded neat a month back or so, but I didn’t dip into the Drop since I didn’t know if they’d work for my units.