Yellow/#3 – This is a further classification of ‘SPST NO’ and ‘Special’, with SPST NO simply referring to switches that have a single stem, single activation, and are normally ‘open’ or not producing a signal. Beyond all doubt, the vast majority of you will have only used MX switches with a ‘1’ for this category. Orange/#2 – This category is simply listed as ‘Material’, ‘Silenced Slider’, and ‘Special’ as the three respective options without much of an explanation as to what these things mean. Red/#1 – MX simply refers to Cherry’s internal part coding for ‘Keyswitch Module’ from the ‘MX Family’ design. Above, you’ll note that I’ve color coded (with number labels for colorblind readers) an example layout for an MX part code so that we can break down how exactly these part codes came to be: Keeping true to my word, as well as to fully appreciate the labels that UncleFan has figured out for switches in his collection, I think it is worth discussing how exactly Cherry generates these part codes for switches in the first place. And thus, the response from Cherry were the very first MX Brown switches. According to a Kinesis employee statement in 2012, this prompted a request from the owner of Kinesis to Cherry to create a tactile, low-force switch without the ‘clicky’ sound that comes as a result of the click jacket on MX Blue switches. Having outfitted their ‘Advantage’ split keyboards with Cherry MX Blues prior to this date, the owner of Kinesis was a fan of the feeling of the MX Blues, but not necessarily the loud noise that they would make. Switch BackgroundĬherry MX Browns were first brought into existence in 1992 as the result of a collaboration between Kinesis, an ergonomically focused keyboard company, and Cherry. But, nonetheless, let’s have into a discussion about Cherry MX Browns. As the switch market continues to grow and expand, and companies wax and wane in their presence, there is a very real possibility that this review will not stand the test of time – like many of those that came before it. The only thing that I can offer to you reading this right now is my take on these switches as of the current moment in the hobby. (In fact, I can think of one right now who practically does this as a full-time escapade.) And without a doubt, there were these opinions in the past and there will be these opinions in the future. There will be people who ridicule them, make memes about them, and not think a single positive thing of it. There will be budding tech reviewers from many years ago who praised these switches as the ‘best’ among tactile switches available in the super short list of switches on the open market. For the most part, I’m almost certain that nothing I could say in this review is going to be anything that hasn’t already been covered somewhere by somebody at some point in time. With that, a lot of different opinions of them exist out there. Cherry MX Browns are, without a doubt, one of the most well-known switches in the entirety of mechanical keyboard history.
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