Anonymous 17/05/2019
It's been close to a year since I bought this magnificent keyboard, which I love.
Best keyboard I've ever had. Extremely comfortable, extremely good-looking, feels and looks solid and heavy so it never moves around. The chord is long and thick, and definitely not shoddy. The angle the keyboard makes with the table when the feet are extended is pretty much perfect.
I have still a few negative remarks to make. The top layer of the space bar key has started getting scratched away over a not-that-small oval-shaped area near where I'm hitting it the most often. It's not glaring but it is a noticeable blemish. Also one of the two little rubber stabilizers on the tips of the feet of the keyboard used to prop it, has fallen off pretty quickly and doesn't stick to it anymore. But, I kept using the board with just the one remaining rubber stabilizer and I can't tell the difference (especially, it didn't make it wobbly at all) so I don't mind at all.
As for the sound of it (I bought the one with MX brown switches), it's not loud by any margin, but to say it's a silent keyboard would be lying. I doubt it would ever bother people at all in an office environment, but it's definitely noticeable if you're the only one using a computer in a room of average size (provided it's not a nightclub, ha). In short, it just sounds like an average, non-intrusive keyboard, but it's not miraculously soundless or dampened.
I bought red O-rings for it at the same time I ordered the keyboard. To be honest, when they're on, the difference is there, definitely, but from a certain perspective it makes no practical difference. So little in fact that I initially only put o-rings over about half of my keyboard, to test their effect... and in the end never got around to put the little dampeners over the remaining keys, because I'm lazy and I can't actually tell much of a difference between the sounds on the left side and on the right side, unless I *really*, purposely focus on trying to hear it.
So, it does make things better, unquestionably (and to me the tactile experience is identical, so no problems on that front), but it might very well be like barely ten percent less noise, and not much less. Therefore, no drawbacks for using o-rings at all, just don't expect it to be that much better with them than without.
As for the Keyboard Company : perfect delivery, nothing to complain about, would recommend it to anyone. It's so very nice to go shopping online on good websites like this one, that aren't creepy, scam-ish, or maze-like at all (you-know-which-one).
