Haha, you’re the second person to tell me that they became aware of the spring crunch because I brought it up. [There was a guy happily typing away on them on elsewhere, until I mentioned the spring crunch.]
I think you’re right, it may have to do with the alignment of the springs. For me, the solution is to replace the spring, since I don’t think it’s so great to begin with.
Aliaz is a very quiet switch with a big Achilles heel in the form of the spring. Some of them crunch, like we’ve established, and I’ve had ping from them as well. Someone else is replacing their springs right now because of ping. They noted that the 60G seemed to ping more than the 70G, and are investigating that now.
In any case, OUTEMU Silent Sky can be at least as quiet as Aliaz, probably moreso. The Silent Skies take to lube much better than Aliaz, which remains mostly unaffected. What you’re pretty much expected to do is both lube and spring-swap them. I prefer the 62G, so I will be replacing them with the equivalent Spirit spring and also 63.5.
Thanks for the tip about the GK64 plate. The GK64 feels good, even if it has an odd layout, so maybe it’s FR4 that would make sense for a KBD8x Silent Sky build.