How dampend :alps: / matias switches feel compared to alps blacks?

Luxanna · 11 Feb 2018, 18:53

Hi!
I've recently started streaming some games and as much as I love my clicky :IBM: keyboards I can't stand linear switches at all when it comes to gaming on them (I love typing on linearized skcm blacks). We all know, that blacks are quite polarizing switches and I simply put hate them as they are probably the only switches except can-techs' buckling springs that got on cherry my level of beeing crap. And here is my question: How do cream dampend alps, or matias switches feel compared to skcm blacks from AT101?
Thank you for answers,
Luxanna.

Myoth · 11 Feb 2018, 18:57

Cream Dampened Alps should feel about the same

Matias QC are more tactile

Dingster · 11 Feb 2018, 20:44

Luxanna wrote: Hi!
I've recently started streaming some games and as much as I love my clicky :IBM: keyboards I can't stand linear switches at all when it comes to gaming on them (I love typing on linearized skcm blacks). We all know, that blacks are quite polarizing switches and I simply put hate them as they are probably the only switches except can-techs' buckling springs that got on cherry my level of beeing crap. And here is my question: How do cream dampend alps, or matias switches feel compared to skcm blacks from AT101?
Thank you for answers,
Luxanna.

If you dont mind doing some work, you can mod the black alps to be linear quite easily

davkol · 11 Feb 2018, 21:02

Luxanna · 12 Feb 2018, 02:32

So it looks like my bet are the matias switches? Welp, time to find a good place to buy them in europe.

//gainsborough · 12 Feb 2018, 02:35

Nah man - go with cream damapened over matias. Cream dampened are at least complicated alps, and even come with pine top housings. Matias are simplified alps clones. You could also try a more respectable skcm tactile switch, like SKCM orange!

Luxanna · 12 Feb 2018, 02:41

If I had money for SKCM Orange I'd just go for Topreh tbh

//gainsborough · 12 Feb 2018, 02:49

Dingster · 12 Feb 2018, 17:48

davkol wrote:
Dingster wrote:
Luxanna wrote: …I can't stand linear switches at all when it comes to gaming on them (I love typing on linearized skcm blacks)…
If you dont mind doing some work, you can mod the black alps to be linear quite easily
Ahem.
Luxanna wrote: …I can't stand linear switches at all when it comes to gaming on them (I love typing on linearized skcm blacks)…

Oh god my bad

macboarder · 12 Feb 2018, 19:17

Matias parts work really well as Black Alps augments - you get both a clean keyfeel and nice tactility.