The Neo80 Cu offers brass and copper bottoms with both options as weights as well. Any opinions about how the various combinations (brass/brass, brass/copper, copper/brass, copper/copper) would affect the sound?
1 Like
Both are gonna sound very similar TBH, they’ll both be low pitched, thocky sounding boards cause of the copper or brass bottom. The weight is pretty small iirc so I doubt that’ll make much if any sound difference. Honestly the sound of a brass or copper bottom is so close I’d advise to get whichever one you think looks better.
3 Likes
do 2 stage springs need to be put in a certain direction?
using “MX multistage 55m1” by sprit
2 Likes
For the sprits specifically, they aren’t directional/have no polarity, don’t think it matters with other multistage springs either, it might matter with a conical spring though (but not like you’ll find those in mx often, at least that I know of)
3 Likes
thanks a lot. im putting them into some switches now and paused here recognizing that the two different “stages” look different. back to work, thanks again
2 Likes
I typically put the tighter coils at the top just because it drives me nuts otherwise lol, but there’s also maybe something to be said with the more mass at the top or bottom of the spring moving (would maybe dampen upstroke more with heavier mass at top, less so with heavier mass at bottom, not sure which would be more preferential) and also how that might interact with the physical housing potentially changing the feel, but never tested it myself. I do know that tighter top up seems to be what some like the thic thock progressive springs recommend for maybe that reason, but in terms of force of the spring itself will compress the same.
2 Likes
gotcha. i think if i feel a difference or im bugged enough to want to change it i will. thank you for the thoroughness in the response im responding to
2 Likes
Anyone know a product that allows hotswapping a ps/2 keyboard safely into and out of a computer? Thanks
2 Likes
If you keep a PS/2 board plugged into a Soarar or Hasu converter, the converter itself can be safely hotswapped.
3 Likes
Yep. That’s what I do
2 Likes