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Keychron V1 Max modding - Silent keyboard for the office!

CORRECTION (05:28): Bobagums are linears! I had a brain fart there, my bad. Out of all the 9 keyboards I've built and modded so far, 5 of them were for work, and 2 out of those 5 were Keychrons. The Keychron V1 Max is my "Keychron work board #2", the latest addition to that lineage of devices designed to raise a ruckus and turn heads in the office. This is not a Keychron V1 Max review; this is just a demonstration of what a modded V1 Max sounds like if you're modding it for an office setting. On paper, Keychron makes good work-friendly keyboards--a lot of their original models were dual-mode (Bluetooth and wired), came in pretty much every form factor imaginable, and had Mac+Windows support. Later on, newer models added QMK/VIA support for even more flexibility in personalization and programmability. However, the stock switches aren't really what you'd call "good for taking notes at 120WPM while you're in a room with the executives". My coworkers are completely fine with loud keyboards. Yours may not be. To solve that problem, you gotta make some compromises: swap in some silent switches, pad your case, tune your stabilizers, and voila, you are no longer a termination hazard. Check out the mod choices that saved my career. Specs: Keychron V1 Max TTC Frozen Silent V2 (factory-lubed) Polycarbonate plate NuPhy GhostBar spacebar Keychron stabilizers, relubed with Krytox 205g0 TMT Taho Dark keycaps (PBT) Plate foam Silicone padding for the case The stars of the show are the TTC Frozen Silent V2's. I've lubed over half a thousand switches, but I've heard a lot of people say that TTC Frozen Silent V2's were already smooth out of the box, and I can now attest to that. They're no Gateron Oil Kings, but they were certainly smoother than stock Durock Dolphins (which I lubed for the Keychron K8 Pro, my Keychron work board #1), and an order of magnitude smoother than the scratchy Outemu Silent Whites, which I used prior to Durock Dolphins. They can probably benefit from another lubing run on the stem rails since they aren't as covered as I'd like them to be, but I didn't think it was worth the time and effort just to get marginal improvements. The rubber silencer being placed under the stem pole instead of in the stem rails makes the switch less mushy than other traditional silent switches. I still prefer the stiff downstroke of the Haimu Heartbeats/WS Silent Linears which do not use rubber dampeners, but this design strikes a great balance between mushy and firm. The upstroke is still a little too loud for my liking if you use it for the bigger keys (like the spacebar and backspace), but it seems to be a common issue with silent linears since silent tactiles don't have this much of an upstroke problem (Boba U4 for spacebar = really quiet). The 39g actuation force is, in my opinion, a bonus for an office setting, because lighter springs = less force needed to register a keypress = less fatigue over time. If you're banging away on a mechanical keyboard for all 8 hours of your shift, might as well be banging on 39g buttons instead of 67g to save yourself from muscle strain and injury. I've tried a fair bit of silent switches from several brands already (Outemu, Akko, Haimu, Wuque Studios, Skyloong, Durock, and Gazzew), and honestly, this is my new favorite silent switch. The stock feel is great, it's whisper-quiet, and it's even got amazing RGB diffusion, all for a price that's just slightly more expensive than Akko and Outemu silents, and that's a great spot to be in. I still want something that has the downstroke feel of a Haimu Heartbeat + the upstroke silence of a Boba U4, but while I'm waiting for something like that to exist, TTC Silent Frozen V2's, you are my current champion.