You know, with the fact that they’ve managed to push out such diversity so quickly, I think we may turn around on Durock. If they can get batch consistency down, it shouldn’t be much longer of a road to redemption. The scandal that caused all the divide in the first place is in the relative past, and it looks like Zeal wasn’t supremely damaged by the whole thing, so we may just need to put our trust in JWK and see that they don’t do another fucky.
My eyes!
Initial review is not looking promising without some modifications now that I have the alpacas in a board. I’ll have a sound test review up soon but I’ll say that unless you film the switches they are not good.
Hmm that’s weird. Agree you need to film them to really get the best sound out of them but I just built a board with 3204 and filmed alpacas and they are hands down my favorite linears in both sound and smoothness vs well tuned tealios, gat inks, and creams.
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Oh I agree. Once filmed they are amazing actually but I feel like that’s a mod that most people are not going to do even if they often lube switches. So I can’t recommend them unless you’re going to film them. I’ll go into greater detail in a new post as opposed to hijacking this thread but yeah, they go from bad to amazing with films and lube.
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Ahh totally fair. Yea definitely sub par without films. Which is kinda weird.
But even with the cost of films and the time it takes to put them on they are still an amazing value in linears right now.
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Jumping on the RTX train I see, nice pick up! I’m probably gonna wait to see what NV’s 3000 series & big Navi look like before I upgrade my GPU. I’m sitting on a 1080ti right now so performance wise I’m good on the GPU side. Although I did think the 2060 was the best value out of the 2000 series. I recommended it to a few people.
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Very nice, and beautiful lighting in this shot!
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I use those silent linear silver stems on my work board. They might not be the most stable when it comes to wobble, but lubed they are the most quiet switch I have experienced so far - I think its down to that nice gummy dampening material. My coworkers’ Apple chicklet boards are significantly louder.
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What do you put them into? I’m going to use the stock Outemu ICE v.Whatever housings, and plan to use Krytox 105 on em. That is, once I manage to find the time to drillbit the damned things. I have a bunch of Cherry housings lying around, I’m gonna toss a stem into those and see if I can lazy my way to victory.
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Loot from the last 3 days of mail:
- Lube station + stabs from Prime Keyboards
- Zilents v2 67g from 1up
- Krytox lube from Amazon
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I wrote a review and did a sound test comparison here: Silent Linear Switches Comparison & Silent Alpaca Review
Hope it helps and feel free to ask any questions!
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When you go from zero artisans to what do I do with all these, in one mail day.
Traded a little work to @arissj for the Fugu, Keebio macropad and some Inks! Mr @Rob27shred being one of those fabled generally swell people, sent me the rest as a belated Christmas gift!
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Yeeee!
I love it so much! I want 10 more! The fit is fantastic. Definitely worth the already fair price. We need these mass produced, @keyboardman
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Since I had some laying around, I put them in Trash Panda housings. They look nice with the silver stem in the gray housing, but I think Walker pointed out that those YOK housings aren’t as ideal as they could be for silents. Still - super quiet overall. I’d say the tighter the tolerance on the housing the better since those Outemu silent stems do have a little wobble - I think most of the sound they do make comes from the play.
I have some comparisons / sound tests including those hybrids here.
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