I believe I may have set my expectations too high for this keyboard. I'm still working on a full review, but wanted to share a sound test to share the scratchiness, clackyness, and lack of uniformity in sound across the board. No flex to speak of either.
I also expected that these new "doubleshot" stabilizers would be much better stock, but as you can hear, they don't do the best job, especially when it comes to the spacebar.
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Music used for intro: Metre - Lost
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LxjzPARZg
It's been a bit since I've had the chance to mod a keyboard and having recently acquired this rebranded CIY X79, I decided to mod it, but was constrained with time, so did not go with my usual material of choice to fill the bottom case, silicone. Instead I went with a mix of Zip n' Fit with a small layer of poly-fill, I did three layers of painter's tape, added adhesive pads on to the plate facing the PCB, added a sheet PE foam over the PCB, using PE foam pads for the stabilizer switches. I only cleaned and lubed the stbilizers. There was no need for further modification.
I did try the new Ajazz/Douyu Orange Tactile switches, which are nice, and do come "factory lubed" appear to only have lube on the stem as the spring ping can be heard with nearly every keystroke.
After modding I do a sound test, which I was happily surprised with. I know I can get it better, but for spending less than two hours on it, I'm quite pleased.
I also do a super cut of the stock sound test as well as after modding. The difference is real.
Hope that you enjoyed this video and feel free to share your thoughts, comments, dislikes; I'm here and will do my best to answer them all.
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Music used for intro: Metre - Lost
Additional Music by BenSound.com
House - Benjamin Tissot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00PxHtkc1eE
Unless they've made revisions to production, I do not believe Outemu Pandas come factory lubed, or at least the batch I purchased when first available did not.
I also quickly test a lubed Panda versus a stock Panda.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8RN5UvoKbo
As requested, this video is actually filmed much closer to the switch in order to capture the detail missed in the first video posted from overhead.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9KYObPg8sM