Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by hardwaregeek on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:55AM (#26993510)

I've learned that with all the mechanical-head-pens hobbies that it's best to read a little, decide on one good enough product, and stick with it. Stop reading the forums, stop second guessing yourself, just be happy with what you chose.

I settled on a Code keyboard with MX Clears. It's durable, useful and I'm happy with it. Sure I could upgrade but there's little to no reason.

Same with headphones. I gave up on all the fancy audio and use AirPods. Yes, they sound worse. Yes, Bluetooth hurts audio quality. But who cares?

For most of these hobbies the benefit you get from your first purchase will never be replicated. From there it's all diminishing returns.

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Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by tasuki on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:24AM (#26993858)

How much does bluetooth hurt audio quality?

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Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by GOATS- on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:45AM (#27005163)

When audio is being transmitted via Bluetooth, the audio is transcoded to another codec to be played back on the receiver. Lossy transcodes always hurt audio quality, however telling the difference between the source content and transcoded audio isn't as easy as you might think.

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Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by eirki on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:13AM (#26994464)

This is very good advice. It's often so tempting to get on that threadmill after making the first purchase.

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