ergo + thock?
ergo + thock?
Hey! I'm pretty new to this mech keyboard thing but I'm hooked. A couple months ago I got an Aula f75 and I love it. It sounds sooo nice and buttery... And the linear switches feel awesome to me.
I started looking at cute little 40% boards and thought I'd really like something ortholinear, minimal, where I'd have to use layers and home row mods etc. I got the $40 mk47 from Micro Center (sort of a Planck knockoff), put on some blank caps, learned enough QMK to set up my layers and tapdance and all that, and even switched from QWERTY to colemak-dh. This scratches a number of my neurodivergent itches! And I'm up to 35wpm after a few days. :P ...
Except for two things. It doesn't sound nearly as good as the Aula, and my wrists are starting to hurt. (My daily driver was a split membrane kb for years until this.)
I've been looking at the zsa voyager, and it looks like it could be "the one"-- it's portable (important), well built (can throw in backpack to take to office), etc. But will it satisfy the need for that sound?? So far looking around on YouTube it kinda doesn't seem like it,but it could just be that Voyager reviewers don't focus on such silly things as thocky vs creamy, lol. But this is important! Anyone feel me?
So I've also been looking at Cornes, and whatever other minimalist split kbs out there. I don't want to solder anything myself, which removes some options..
Any recommendations out there? Either for other boards, or "yes the voyager can thock"? Thanks in advance!!
Oh behalf of everyone else around you.
Please don't put loud switches on a portable keyboard you're going to take around with you.
If you're taking them in public, you're probably going to be wearing noise cancelling earphones and you won't hear the noise anyway, but everyone else will.
You have a good point... I kind of forgot about that. Thanks.
Well.. Maybe I need the voyager for quiet, and something else (preferably also split) to satisfy the thock...
I recommend getting a switch tester with a bunch of "silent" tactile switches.
They have a muted thock that is much less annoying to be around.
For me I settled on Gazzew Boba U4 Silent Tactile Switches (the 62g clear version) in my moonlander (also using colemak-dh). I've also been looking at the voyager since the thumb clusters look like they're in a much better spot than the moonlander's which can feel like you have to pull your thumb back further than it goes to reach the keys if you don't mod your board (I have no idea what they were thinking with that positioning, it's so unnecessarily far away from the base keyboard compared to their other keyboards).
But definitely get the switch tester, because everyone's preferences are so different and finicky.