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★★★★★
Stock, it's honestly not usable without a spring swap and stem lube — but it's very rewarding to mod, and you should buy it to enjoy that crisp, sandy feel. Broken in, the sound is the best. Wearing it in concentrates the bottom-out energy into a sharp "pashi", and the wear removes burrs and contact noise for a more r
★★★★★
At first I couldn't love it. People mod these heavily — lube, films — but the 70g bottom-out feels heavy, and even after lubing mine it took a ton of lube to get smooth. (Updated 2026-06-17) Bumped from 1 star to 5 — NK Cream is the best. The 70g bottom-out is totally fine once you're used to it (train your wrists!) a
★★★★★
The quintessential "wild horse" switch — unruly, but I love it. The long-pole stem makes it loud; the heavy lube on the bottom housing gives a cushioned bottom-out; the 18mm spring makes it snappy to type; and a faint scratch gives it a Cherry-like character. Together it produces a rich, varied sound, a little like Cre
★★★★★
Extremely quiet — seriously silent. The normal-profile Deep Sea is already high-level, but this low-profile version is excellent too. It's listed at 60g, but with the short 2.8mm travel you don't really feel that weight; it settles into a nicely balanced heft. No real downsides. If I have to name one: the silencing is
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★★★★★
An interesting switch — the keycap-mount and the magnetic part (the stem shaft) are separate, and the bottom housing has clever touches, giving a pure typing sound. It's Hall-effect, yet there's almost no magnet noise; call it thocky or creamy, it's genuinely close to a real mechanical sound. At $1.70 a switch it's ou
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★★
This one is HMX-made, so it comes out clacky. Stem wobble is minimal, and at 49g it's on the light side. The flip side: compared to V1 it leans clacky, so it's a genuinely different switch — for better or worse, it feels very "HMX." Don't think of it as an evolution of V1; treat it as a completely different switch. On
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★★★★★
Incredibly smooth. Maybe it's the long stem, but the sound comes out on the louder side — and when it clicks with the right board, the typing sound turns into the kind that melts your brain. For that melt-your-brain sound, a QK60-style build worked best for me: PC top, aluminum bottom, gasket mount. That said, I'm run
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★★★★
There's unit-to-unit variation with the Oil King, and it seems the lubing also differs from person to person. In my case, though, it was lubed heavily—so much so that, true to the name, oil (lube) was seeping out from the gaps around the switch stem. There's smoothness to it, but a bit of scratchiness remains as well,
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