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Cherry MX Blues question

ShadehaterHD
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Today I've bought my first mechanical keyboard, Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Blues

What I want to ask the people that have mechanical keyboards as well, does every key on your keyboards sound the same? Because on mine, it varies a lot. Some keys have amazing clickyness and 2-4 others almost don't click at all.
 

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Every key should sound the same.

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Yes, if you just got it, they should all be the same. If not, take it back and exchange for a new one.

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They should all have the click.

 

"All key clicks are equal but some are more equal than others."

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The clickyness should be pretty uniform across the keyboard. I'd return it to whatever store you bought it from for a replacement, or call/email whatever online retailer you bought it from.

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Yeah, that's what I thought
I'll return it today :)
Thank you ^_^

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If I bottom my keys (Cherry MX Brown) out, they all sound slightly different. Even between boards with the same brown switch, I hear a difference. Is this difference you hear from bottoming out or a function the clicky switch? Blues should click. Try to not bottom out. I think some variation is normal.

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No, it's not a difference when bottoming out.
Some keys literally just clack instead click

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Yeah, I'd return it. Or talk with Corsair, they might be able to exchange it.

Another reason to hate blue switches!

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I will give a more technical answer.

 

Each and every key on a mechanical keyboard will sound different. First even with machines and precise tolerances, each key will be a little different. One may have a housing that's a hundredth of a millimeter thicker changing the nature of the reverberations. One may be mounted slightly tghter increasing dampening. The position on the board/plate where it is mounted will damp slightly differently. Maybe halfway through making your batch of switches, they exhausted a box of springs and had to pop open new ones with a Hooke's constant 1% larger.

 

There are even stories about how blues on a cheap board, say a Black Widow  don't sound as crisp.

 

Should keys on the same board sound noticably different? Probably not but it's possible.  Should they sound very different. No.

 

Since it's new I would send the board back. Others might try to repair it but that becomes a complicated discussion.

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keys with same size should be the same sound, unless it is a key with stabilizer, or different size key, but then, they just sound a bit different. 

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There is no key that sound the same, only sort of.

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So yeah, I explained the problem, showed the guy that my concerns were real and now, I have a great new Corsair K70 of which all keys are pretty much clicking nicely ^_^

 

I was offered a Razer Blackwidow 2013 as a replacement (policy of the store is to offer a replacement of higher value as well, if an item is 'DOA') but I liked the build quality of the K70 too much to change to a plastic keyboard  :D
 

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