I found some vint blacks for a great price and was wondering how do they compare to jwk switches? (Tangerines,alpaca,lavender,h1,mauve,etc,etc)
They will probably sound better and feel scratchier.
Do u have a date code for the vints?
If you don’t like the vint blacks you can almost always find someone who will buy it from you
I’ve found vint blacks to be overhyped.If you want the sound try Greetech blacks. Cheaper, smoother and less wobble. One of the more underrated switches out there IMO. I have vintage blacks in my Keycult No2 and I’m currently swapping them out with Greetechs.
JWKs are completely different. Much smoother and different sounding.
That’s like a perfect description dude. Well said.
I heard somewhere that h1s were meant to be vint blacks but better. Is that right?
Also: Shoobs has a nice comparison video on YouTube.
That was the intent, at least.
I never expected them to be like vint blacks, but bought samples anyway.
They turned out to be better-than-expected. Not Cherry-feel, but at the time, R1 of the H1 switch was the tightest and best factory-lubed switch from JWK. It had a ‘heavy’ 78 G spring, but it didn’t feel that heavy, more like 72 G.
So it wasn’t going to sound or feel like vint blacks, just a heavy JWK linear. But it was so good, you could probably use them stock if you wanted to.
EDIT: They largely got the aesthetic right, at least.