Das Keyboard · Mac and office · sound
Das Keyboard
test de son.
An unapologetically loud office keyboard with genuine Cherry MX underneath and nothing inside to soften it. Press play on both switch options below.
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What a Das Keyboard
en pratique.
Chaque bouton joue une courte phrase enregistrée avec cette famille de switchs. Vous pouvez ainsi comparer le rythme plutôt qu’une seule frappe. Écoutez deux options à la suite : la différence devient plus nette.
Ces extraits correspondent à la famille de switchs, pas à ce clavier précis. Les options peuvent varier selon l’année et la région : vérifiez la version qui vous intéresse.
Ce que vous entendez
Son caractère
sonne vraiment.
The Das Keyboard is a rare thing in a modern lineup: a full-height mechanical board with no attempt made to tune it. There is no foam, no gasket mount, and no dampening anywhere in the case, so what you hear is the Cherry MX switch, the plate it is mounted to, and the empty volume of the case behind it.
On the Blue version that adds up to one of the loudest keyboards you can buy from a mainstream brand. The click fires on the way down and again on the way up, and the unfilled case gives it a resonance that carries. The Brown version drops the click entirely and lands as a rounder knock, but it is still not a quiet keyboard — the same hollowness that amplifies the Blue is still there underneath it.
Whether that is a flaw depends entirely on what you wanted. An unfoamed case is the honest presentation of a Cherry switch, and plenty of people prefer it to the muffled thock that modern builds chase.
Pourquoi il sonne comme ça
Sa construction
derrière le bruit.
Genuine Cherry MX switches on a steel plate in a plastic case with an aluminium top panel and no internal fill. That absence is the whole story. Modern boards put foam between the PCB and the case specifically to kill the resonance an empty cavity produces; the Das leaves it in place, which is why it sounds bigger and more hollow than a similarly specified 2026 keyboard with the same switches.
- Switchs
- Genuine Cherry MX
- Plaque
- Steel
- Case
- Plastic with an aluminium top panel
- Damping
- None
Quelle option choisir
Choisir
son switch.
Das sells the same chassis with Blue or Brown switches, and on a case this resonant the gap between them is wider than usual. The Blue is not a slightly louder Brown — it is a different category of noise, and in a shared office it is the difference between a keyboard people notice and one they complain about.
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Par switch
Ou explorez
par switch.
Si vous hésitez déjà entre deux switchs, les pages dédiées vont plus loin que celle d’un seul clavier : elles proposent les mêmes enregistrements, les caractéristiques publiées par Cherry, une explication du mécanisme et des conseils pour choisir.
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Vous aimez ce son ?
sur votre Mac ?
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Bonnes questions
Das Keyboard
en questions.
Is a Das Keyboard too loud for an office?
The Blue version usually is. It is a clicky Cherry MX switch in an undamped case, which is close to the loudest combination available, and it fires twice per keystroke. The Brown version is generally accepted in most offices, though the unfoamed case means it still carries further than a modern gasket-mounted board with the same switch.
Why does the Das Keyboard sound hollow?
Because there is nothing inside it. The space between the PCB and the bottom of the case is an air cavity, and an empty cavity resonates. Boards built in the last few years fill that space with foam precisely to stop it. Das has kept the older, unfilled construction, which some people hear as hollow and others hear as the switch being presented honestly.
Does the Das Keyboard use real Cherry switches?
Yes. The Professional line ships with genuine Cherry MX rather than a clone, which is part of why the recordings on this page line up with it so closely — the Cherry MX packs here are recordings of the same switches. What differs between your board and the recording is the case around them, not the switch.
Les sons de cette page proviennent de packs enregistrés par la communauté et utilisés sous la licence MIT. They are recordings of the switch family, not of a Das Keyboard 4 and 6 Professional specifically. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.