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NuPhy Air75 Raycast
test de son.
A limited NuPhy x Raycast run, and the one Air75 you cannot order loud — it comes with the silenced switch and nothing else. Press play to hear what it ships as.
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What a NuPhy Air75 Raycast
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 interesting decision here is the one NuPhy made for you. The standard Air75 V3 is sold with a Red Nano linear, a Brown Nano tactile, or the silenced Blush Nano; the Raycast Edition comes with the Blush and no alternative. That single choice does more to how this keyboard sounds than the colourway, the icon keycaps, or anything else on the spec sheet.
A silenced switch has dampening pads that absorb both the bottom of the travel and the return, so the two moments that normally make the noise are padded. On a low-profile board with only 3.5 mm to work with, that leaves very little — a soft, low pad rather than a knock, with no attack at the front of it and effectively nothing on the upstroke.
Two specification details push it further in the same direction. The plate is polycarbonate rather than metal, which is softer and flexes instead of ringing, and the keycaps are dye-sublimated PBT, which is denser than ABS and lowers the pitch. Combined with the gasket mount, this is about as quiet as a mechanical keyboard gets before you reach silenced Topre.
Pourquoi il sonne comme ça
The build
derrière le bruit.
An ANSI 75% low-profile board, 84 keys, gasket-mounted with a polycarbonate plate — a softer plate than the steel or aluminium most boards use, which absorbs rather than reflects. The top case is aluminium and the bottom is ABS, with dye-sublimated PBT keycaps and 3.5 mm of travel in a 13.2 mm case. It is hot-swappable within the low-profile ecosystem, and it ships with a detachable knob in both high and low profile. The Raycast collaboration adds icon keycaps for common Raycast commands and a NuPhyIO mapping guide; it was a limited run.
- Layout
- ANSI 75%, 84 keys
- Switches
- Silenced Blush Nano only
- Mounting
- Gasket, polycarbonate plate
- Travel
- 3.5 mm in a 13.2 mm case
- Case
- Aluminium top, ABS bottom
- Keycaps
- Dye-sublimated PBT
Which one to pick
Choosing
the switch.
Only the first button is what the keyboard arrives as. The other two are what you can put in it — the board is hot-swappable, so the Red Nano linear and Brown Nano tactile from the standard Air75 V3 drop straight in and take it somewhere considerably louder. If you want any of those from the start, the regular NuPhy Air75 sells all three and costs less.
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Bonnes questions
NuPhy Air75 Raycast
en questions.
Does the Raycast Edition sound different from a normal Air75 V3?
Only because of the switch it ships with. Put a Blush Nano in a standard Air75 V3 and the two are very close — the case, the gasket mount, and the travel are shared. The difference is that the Raycast Edition is sold with the silenced switch and no other option, so it is quieter out of the box than the Air75 most people buy.
Is the NuPhy Air75 Raycast Edition quiet enough for an office or a café?
Yes, and it is one of the better answers to that question at any price. The Blush Nano is genuinely silenced rather than merely smooth, the polycarbonate plate absorbs instead of ringing, and low-profile travel means there is not much energy in a keystroke to begin with. It is a keyboard you can use on a call.
Can I put louder switches in the Raycast Edition?
Yes. It is hot-swappable, and it takes the same Gateron low-profile 3.0 and NuPhy Panda nano switches as the rest of the Air series, so the Red Nano linear and Brown Nano tactile both drop in. What it will not take is a standard MX switch — those are far too tall for a 13.2 mm case.
Is the Raycast Edition worth it over a standard Air75 V3?
Not for the sound. Acoustically you are paying for a switch you could order on the standard board for less. What the Raycast Edition adds is the icon keycaps, the NuPhyIO mapping guide, the knob modules, the colourway, and a limited run — which are reasons to want it, just not acoustic ones.
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 NuPhy Air75 V3 Raycast Edition specifically. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.