Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
—————————— Just got my fins on this pair of absolutely GORGEOUS commissioned granite wristrests from the homie Wayduh; and to actually see—and FEEL—them in person just totally annihilated all of my expectations... ... so, naturally, I now feel like a new father that wants to shove his baby pics into the faces of anything that moves. As is usually the case with hand-crafted artisan stuffs (and crazy stone in-general), pictures just CAN'T do the level of detail in the grain justice! My buddy had a crazy amount of raw stone stocks to pick from, in all colors of the Earth; but being an OG curator of all things anti-fidelity & mangled sound, I wanted something with the same lofi-grain that a Yard Sale VCR with crusty tape-heads would pump through a janky CRT... They're perfect 📼🔨