Monsgeek · Enthusiast and custom · sound
Monsgeek M1
test de son.
The board that made a full aluminium custom build cheap enough to be an impulse purchase. Press play to hear what that construction produces.
Press play
What a Monsgeek M1
sounds like.
Each button plays a short phrase typed on that switch family, so you are comparing rhythm rather than a single tap. Play two in a row — that is where the difference actually shows up.
These are recordings of the switch family, not of this exact keyboard. That is the honest way to do it — the family is what dominates the sound, and switch options move between model years and regions. Check the listing before buying on the strength of a match here.
Ce que vous entendez
How it
sonne vraiment.
The M1 is a full CNC aluminium case, gasket-mounted, with a foam stack, sold as a barebones kit for less than a finished plastic board from a mainstream brand. Built with lubed linears and PBT keycaps, it produces exactly the sound the entire custom keyboard hobby is organised around: deep, full, rounded, with a clack at the bottom and no ring anywhere.
There is very little to say about switch options because almost nobody buys these boards with a stock switch. The variable that matters is what the owner put in it, and the case is forgiving enough that most reasonable choices sound good.
If you have watched a keyboard sound test video and wondered what board it was, statistically it was either something like this or something four times the price trying to sound like it.
Pourquoi il sonne comme ça
The build
derrière le bruit.
A CNC aluminium case with a gasket mount, a full foam stack, and a brass or steel weight, sold barebones so the buyer supplies switches and keycaps. Standard MX spacing and hot-swap sockets on most versions. The entire category — Monsgeek, Weikav, and a dozen similar names — exists because Chinese CNC capacity made aluminium custom cases cheap, and they largely share this recipe.
- Case
- CNC aluminium with weight
- Mounting
- Gasket mount
- Damping
- Full foam stack
- Sold
- Usually barebones
Which one to pick
Choosing
the switch.
These boards are almost always built rather than bought complete, so the switch is entirely the owner's choice. The recording above reflects the typical build — a lubed linear in a foamed aluminium case — which is what the overwhelming majority of them end up running.
Same category
Other keyboards
in this category.
Or read the full round-up of 51 popular keyboards matched to a sound, and open the labo sonore du clavier to play all eight packs on a keyboard you can type on.
By switch
Or shop
by switch.
If you already know which switch you are choosing between, the switch pages go deeper than any single keyboard page can — the same recordings with Cherry's published specifications, what the mechanism is actually doing, and who each one suits.
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Bonnes questions
Monsgeek M1
en questions.
Why do budget aluminium customs sound so good?
Because the three things that most affect keyboard sound are all cheap to manufacture at scale: a machined aluminium case, gasket mounting, and foam. None of them requires precision engineering in the way a switch does. Once Chinese CNC capacity made aluminium cases affordable, the sound that used to require a group buy and a year of waiting became a $100 purchase.
Do I need to build a custom keyboard myself?
For a barebones kit, yes — you install the switches and keycaps, which takes about twenty minutes and requires no soldering on a hot-swap board. That is genuinely all there is to it. Lubing the switches yourself is the part that takes hours, and it is optional if you buy factory-lubed switches instead.
Is a Monsgeek M1 better than a Keychron Q1?
They are built to the same recipe and sound similar. The Q1 arrives complete with switches, keycaps, and firmware support; the M1 is cheaper and expects you to supply and choose those things. If you want to pick your own switches, the M1 saves money. If you want a keyboard that works out of the box, the Q1 is the easier purchase.
The audio on this page comes from community-recorded sound packs, used under the licence MIT. They are recordings of the switch family, not of a Monsgeek M1 and similar customs specifically. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.