Which cherry clones are the best??

[Not_Thunder]

I was looking to buys some budget mechanical keyboard and they all come with cherry mx clone switches so I wanted to know which clones are the best ?

1.Outemu blue 

2.Jixian blue

3.Kailh blue

 

[Jurrunio]

Jixian is the smallest brand of the 3 so I dont recommend them if you get to choose, Kailh and Outemu are both equally good. They also fit the same keycaps as Cherry's do, so you can use swap keycaps easily if you hate the cheap and badly made ABS ones many cheap keyboards use.

[seon123]

I don't know about Jixian, but for Outemu and Kailh, it depends on the series. For the normal, most common series, both should be okay. Outemu has the Sky and Ice series, and Kailh has the Box series, and they are all easily better than any modern Cherrys.

[Not_Thunder]

11 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Jixian is the smallest brand of the 3 so I dont recommend them if you get to choose, Kailh and Outemu are both equally good. They also fit the same keycaps as Cherry's do, so you can use swap keycaps easily if you hate the cheap and badly made ABS ones many cheap keyboards use.

Can u suggest some good budget keycaps ?

[Dr0y]

I have the redragon k552 with outemu blue switches.  They have stiff springs, are clicky and loud with some reverb through the casing of the board, specially for the spacebar, enter, shift and escape keys.  The feel is ok but if I compare them to the gateron box blue I had on another board (lexma) I like the gateron better.  Feels more stable and a bit quieter than the outemu. 

 

I don't have any keyboard with kailh blue to compare with, but GF has a rosewill k81 with kailh brown and I have a razer blackwiddow 2013 stealth edition with cherry mx brown and I can tell you I like the feel of the rosewill more than the feel of the razer.  The razer feels mushy and kinda linear cause I can barely sense the actuation bump of those old cherry brown.  The springs are also quite light probably due to years of use.  The kailh feels much more solid with higher force spring and good actuation bump.  ... but as for actuation bump, nothing I have tried has a more noticeable bump than the outemu blue on the k552.

 

As for the keycaps I have some YMDK  that I installed this morning on the redragon k552

https://www.amazon.ca/YMDK-Through-Profile-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B07FNL6MP8/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=ymdk&qid=1582418554&sr=8-8&th=1

 

Considering also getting those

https://www.amazon.ca/YMDK-Profile-Keycaps-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B07CYTLXRB/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=ymdk&qid=1582418554&sr=8-5

 

 

Picture of the keyboard with the YMDK keycaps and o-rings with flash on ... Note that the board don't have any led and the keycaps are not shine through. 

 

Hope that help