Cherry claims they’re 30% quieter than standard MX key switches.Ĭherry, the German manufacturer that’s made the standardized MX mechanical switch for decades, offers Silent variations of both its Red and Black switch designs.
“Silent” is in quotation marks here, which of course means “not really silent” the new switches do make noise, but they’re not nearly as obnoxious as more standard mechanical keys. Enter the “silent” switch, a new batch of switch designs that use different materials to dampen the noise of the plastic parts inside a mechanical housing. This is considerably louder than more mundane keyboard mechanisms, which use a sheet of rubber to cover the actuation switches, effectively dampening the sound, but resulting in a far less crisp feel sought after by many typists and gamers.īut with the rise of mechanical keyboards, manufacturers have set about solving the noise problem. Plastic sliders underneath each key are depressed down on a spring, closing an electrical circuit and activating the corresponding key input for your computer. What makes a mechanical keyboard loud is the action of the individual switches.
New “Silent” Switches Offer A Measurable Improvement
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