AMBIENTS WILL START SELLING TUESDAY APRIL 23!!! This will be a constantly-stocked product, No group-buy or presale will occur. The two linears will be released first, followed by the tactile later this spring.
The Ambients are based on the original Kailh Choc V1 switch, but are a completely new design, having all their parts redesigned to accommodate the new components required to quieten the typical switch noise. Silicone bumpers have been strategically placed within the new design to buffer both the down and the up stroke of a keypress, all while not creating a mushy feeling while typing.
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The leverless fightstick I bought came with reds which felt nice but my friends would note that they could hear me mashing buttons.
Decided to give these a try because they were linear, not too light at 35g and are much quieter.
Swapping them out was pretty easy too
Quiet and smooth. Excellent switches.
These are even better than I had hoped for, love them, can’t wait for the sunrises
I just got my Ambient Twilight's, and they are incredible. I've tried lots of switches over the years, but none have lived up to my expectations as much as the Ambient's have. I've been chasing a good silent switch for years, and I feel like I've finally found it. For context, I'm using them in a ZSA Voyager. I love the sound profile and the feel. Where most silent switches I've tried feel mushy, the Ambient's don't. It's hard to describe. I'm a heavy typer, and it just feels like I'm typing on normal low profile switches without the annoying clack and rattle that I've experienced in stock Kailh switches. These are even quieter than standard profile silent switches, so if you're in an office environment with these you will be typing quieter than a macbook pro's keyboard.
Looking forward to trying out the Sunrise's.
I got the Twilights and I put them onto my Dirtywave M8. On that device, they were not that much quieter than Browns by themselves, but once I put O-rings under the caps the sounds went very quiet indeed. Since it seems to be the bottoming out noise at issue, I may try attaching foam pads to the tops of the switch bodies themselves.
For this use case, the Twilights are a little too low-force for me. Since my thumbs are frequently resting on the keys or reaching across them, it’s really easy to cause spurious activations. I look forward to the Sunrises, but may do what someone else did and swap in Brown springs to get back that actuation force. This probably isn’t as much of an issue with normal keyboard use cases or for people more mindful of how their fingers rest on things, so keep that in mind.
I still recommend giving these switches a try if want/need quiet typing, and I would certainly buy them again.
Thanks for your review J.S.
Yes, it has been found that certain keycaps do have collision issues with these switches, which is unfortunate. We are still trying to determine which keycaps it affects and whether it happened on all choc switches, and we are only now noticing it due to the quiet nature of the Ambients.