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Zeal PC Turquoise Tealios/Aqua Zilent/Rosélios/Sakurios

Zeal PC Turquoise Tealios/Aqua Zilent/Rosélios/Sakurios

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Silent switches are great for office environments and places where you'd rather not disturb your seat mates. Here, we're offering four different switches from Zeal PC Read More

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DroppedOnHead
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Oct 28, 2019
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Excellent quality switches
Here's my brief review of these switches, now that I have most of these in hand. All purchased within the last year so are V2 where relevant. A quick word about quality... ZealPC at this stage of the game makes the best quality switches IMHO. There are other switches around that are quite awesome and popular at their price point (I love NK Creams and Gat inks for linears, and even a well made Holy Panda-NOT Drop's), but Zeal is where the build quality and consistency is. If you want a inconsistent clusterf**k order Drop's Holy Pandas. These are dying randomly on me. I JUST received my order of 67g Aqua Zilents from Zeal today. I already lubed enough of them to put on my alphas on my hotswap KBD67. Hands down my favorite of the tactile Zeal switches (at the moment anyway), but "feel" really depends on personal preference. My totally subjective reviews of these switches... 
  • 62g Sakurios: Light, linear, and SO quiet. These feel so smooth out of the bag. Didn't bother to lube them. They don't need it. Might suggest just lubing the springs, but I barely notice any twang at all. Ultimately I found, for me, these were a tad too light. I tend to hit keys harder than some folks and was getting some accidental presses because I'm a gorilla. But damn these are nice.
  • 67g Roselios: Same as the Sakurios, but a bit stiffer. I found these more comfortable for me, as I type heavier. I also lubed these springs and they feel great.
  • 67g Aqua Zilents: As a recent fan of tactiles, and current user of Holy Pandas and V2 67g Zilents and Zealios, I am impressed. In a side by side with the regular 67g Zilents, the Aquas are just a tad smoother around the bump. Regular Zilents and Zealios seem a bit crisper or have a sharper bump. Zeal's site says the difference is the bottom of the housing. I looked for a difference in the stem/spring/leaf and my eyes saw none, but its noticeably smoother. They are very close to Holy Pandas in feel, but have slightly sharper tactility. HP's sound a bit better when made from POM housings, but sound is secondary to feel for me. Yes, I'll be ordering more from Drop now that Zeal's intro price is gone. EDIT: I DID lube these with Krytox 105 on the springs, and Tribosys 3204 on the stems. Perfecto!
I don't have the 62g Aqua's because I'm fairly certain they'd be too light, but I have no doubts they're as awesome as the 67g's.
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Recommends this product? Yes
BapeDonut
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Jan 28, 2020
DroppedOnHeadShilling for zeal i see
alanskiii
117
Jan 28, 2020
I bought 80 Aqua Zilents V2 from Zeal on Black Friday, 100% had loose leaves. About 6 of them made a clicking sound that couldn’t be fixed. They went into 65% so I had enough ok ones. But oof that was a pain to lube and assemble.
Hildy311
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Feb 21, 2020
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Just some minor snip snip and they popped right into my ALT. They are smooth and silent as advertised. No longer annoying my poor wife and co-workers while still giving me a feel I enjoy. Next time I would probably go more tactile. Update: Couple weeks later I went back to my default Halos and after a day went back to these. Once you go linear its kinda hard to go back to tactile. But that is also the beauty of a hot swap PCB!
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danielosaur
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Jul 20, 2020
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I have not experienced many switches so this review may not mean much. Sorry. I am coming from stock Halo Trues which I later lubed with Tribosys 3203. Straight out of the box, something I noticed was that I much prefer the tactility of the Zilents compared to the Halo Trues; the tactility "pops" more and they feel less fatiguing in terms of bottom and top out. I will say that they are not as silent as I thought, however they are more silent than the Halo Trues, so that was a plus. While looking at reviews for these switches before I joined the group buy at the end of February this year, I read some people had loose leaf issues, however my batch does not. The springs have a some ping, but I had to listen with my ear next to the switch to hear it. Some of the springs have a crinkly feeling that you can feel and kind of hear. Both of these things were minor to my typing experience, though. In terms of smoothness, they are about as scratchy as a normal stock silent switch. I have not given myself enough time to lube all of these, but comparing the sound and feel to a stock switch it is very worth it to lube these. As for price, they were a bit expensive--more than twice as much as the halo trues for the size of my board. Personally I am not still not too sure if I made the correct choice to jump to these switches after getting my first custom board, but I do not regret it. Overall, these are decent switches stock with great tactility, minimal ping, and good sound. Given you have some thin lube, a brush, and of course time, make sure to lube them as it will make everything better. Note: You have to use a nail clipper/wire cutter to cut off the extra stabilizing feet to make these fit into boards that do not have the extra holes in the PCB, such as the Drop ALT. Also correct me if I am wrong, but these switches in north-facing switch boards will have interference with GMK or just cherry profile caps in general on row 3 due to the stem height of the Zilents. Some people do not care for this, but you might notice it the more you listen to them.
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camdude
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Apr 16, 2020
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Tooo good
I got the lighter zilent switches. And now I am ruined. These switches feel so nice I don't want to use any other keyboard. Its like they want me to press them... And theyre so quiet. No one can even hear how great this keyboard feels. Except from my mouth, cause I won't shut up about them. Its like a holy panda, but with rubber on the top and bottom... gah its got such a satisfying chunk and a mushy thud. Great stuff. Best switch.
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Recommends this product? Yes
Polar_Panda
16
Apr 27, 2020
camdudethe word mushy scares me. Is it really mushy, or just squishy
camdude
203
Apr 29, 2020
Polar_PandaHahahah the word "squishy" would scare me, words can be so subjective. Linus tech tips did a blind test on them (link at the end) and He described them as "soft but not mushy". Hmm how do I describe it, it kind of feels like there's "o rings" at the bottom and the top of the key press. It's too tactile and snappy to feel like a membrane, or even a topre switch in my opinion, although compared to a non "silent" switch it does lean in that direction. But I have known some people to strongly dislike the feel over non silent, tactile switches. Of my friends that tried this switch next to a holy panda, or an ever glide clear tactile switch, I'd say 5/8 thoroughly enjoyed it, and the other 3 strongly disliked it. Honestly it's not for everyone, but I love the tactile feel, and the soft bottom out, and how it doesn't "clack" when you let go of a key, cause it's dampened on both sides. And the fact that it's quiet is such a game changer for me. If you're not in a rush, I'd recommend trying to find a switch tester that has these on it. Or honestly any silent switch, that will give you a better idea. So much of this is extremely subjective, it makes it really hard to describe the "feeling" of it, since words can mean such different things to different people. Sometimes Novelkeys has a switch tester for sale where you can choose each switch (comes in 4, 12, 25, and 49) https://novelkeys.xyz/collections/switch-testers Here's the video where a bunch of Linus's staff does a blind test. It's interesting, some of his staff really hated it, more of his staff thought it was nice, but preferred another switch over it, (usually stock cherry browns lmao), and some small number preferred this over all other tactile switches. https://youtu.be/dqai0_nnTgs?t=129
Terrorek
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May 30, 2020
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Smooth as hell. But also expensive as hell.. And sorta wobbly?
Turquoise Tealios are very good switches. But they need love in order to become very good. It's extremely difficult for me to discern any friction during the press of a key once lubed. However, they will need filming and even after having filmed them there's still a considerable amount of wobble when I compared them to some of my other switches. There's also the issue of the spring that's omnipresent on zeal's lineup I found. I'm not entirely sure where he gets those springs but they certainly aren't up to par with the competition - they ping pretty badly even after lubing. I highly recommend a spring swap which adds even more to the cost of the switch. This is kind of an unjustifiable problem to have in a switch at such a price-point. They also don't really have a sound that I think many people agree with. The infamous loud Tealios clack is very present here. Some people love it but from what I can gather a large amount of people prefer lower pitched and more subdued switches like Gateron Inks. Incidentally, putting Gateron Ink tops on these switches completely nullifies the wobble and creates a much deeper and more subdued sound without hurting the smoothness of the switch, if you have both available and no reason to keep both then I would consider this Frankenswitch. But of course if you're spending the money for both inks and Tealios, you're already shelling out a massive amount of money for a set of switches which brings me to the last problem; the price. Is it really justified to put that much on a switch that's got an abundance of issues when you can get very similar-in-smoothness switches (namely Durocks), for a much lower cost while having significantly less troubles? Well, I think for most people that's a definite "no". I'd recommend Durock switches like the Alpacas, H1s, FFFs. They're just as smooth while having a more agreeable sound, less wobble, and a decent spring unless you get the L7s.
Recommends this product? No
heat_death51
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May 18, 2019
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Ephemeral25
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Mar 31, 2020
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I got the 67g version and this is by farm the switch I type the fastest on. I come from MX black and Gateron brown with 60g actuation spring. I highly suggest you to get your hand on some. The sharp bump and the muted sound are satisfying. The only downside is that like other told, I put aside around 10% of the batch I got because of inconsistency in the sound due maybe to problem with the metal leaf inside causing them to click or simply make louder pitch sound than usual. Stock switches will ping a lot, I personally lubed them with 205+105 mix springs housings and stems. Overall I am really happy with those switches, I don't know of QC will evolve in the future but as for now I would recommend you to get extra switches for a Fullsize build, 110 is definitely not enough. PS: They feel a noticeably lighter than stock MX black, they aren't causing fatigue. PS2: Be careful when you lub them as some metal leaf can be loose
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erizuna
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Jul 22, 2020
Ephemeral25are those all 4 can be MX Compatible? Thanks.
Ephemeral25
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Jul 22, 2020
erizunaThey are indeed MX style switches
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Stephen
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Feb 7, 2020
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Pretty good, but a bit scratchy without lubrication and some ping. Honestly given their reputation I thought these would beat my T1's that I lubricated hands down, but they don't. The cost is not justified imo.
Recommends this product? No
oge_poge
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Apr 17, 2020
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Great
Roselios are great silent linear switches
Recommends this product? Yes
Mdaly001
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Apr 9, 2020
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Great switched
Some of my favorite switches
Recommends this product? Yes
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