Royal Kludge · Mainstream mechanical · sound
Royal Kludge
test de son.
The boards that dominate the first page of budget keyboard results, and the sound most people's first mechanical keyboard actually makes. Press play on each option below.
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What a Royal Kludge
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.
Royal Kludge boards sound like what they are: light plastic cases with very little inside them. The shell is thin, there is usually no foam, and the PCB is tray-mounted, so the case rings and the sound sits high. On the Red version especially you can hear the case more clearly than the switch.
There is also a fair amount of stabiliser rattle on the wide keys straight out of the box — Space and Enter buzz noticeably on most units, which is the single most obvious tell of a budget board. It is fixable with a few minutes and some lubricant, and it is the first thing worth doing to one.
The Blue is loud and bright, the Brown is a thin tactile knock, and the Red is the smoothest of the three while also being the one that exposes the case most. None of it sounds expensive, and at the price nobody should expect it to.
Pourquoi il sonne comme ça
Sa construction
derrière le bruit.
A tray-mounted PCB in a light plastic case with minimal or no internal fill, across a range of layouts from 60% (RK61) through 75% (RK84) to full-size-with-a-knob (RK S98). Most models are hot-swappable, which is genuinely the best thing about them — the switch is the cheapest part of the board to improve, and the sockets mean you can do it without soldering. Stock keycaps are thin ABS.
- Layout
- 60% to full size depending on model
- Mounting
- Tray mount
- Case
- Light plastic, little or no fill
- Remplacement à chaud
- On most models
Quelle option choisir
Choisir
son switch.
Royal Kludge ships its own switches under the usual colour names, and quality varies between batches more than it does with Gateron or Cherry. Treat the families above as the right guide to what you will hear, and expect a little more scratch than the same colour would give you on a better board.
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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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Bonnes questions
Royal Kludge
en questions.
Why does my Royal Kludge keyboard rattle?
Almost always the stabilisers on the wide keys — Space, Enter, Shift, Backspace. Budget boards ship them dry and loosely fitted, so the wire bar buzzes against its housing on every press. Lubricating the stabilisers with a thick grease is a fifteen-minute job that costs almost nothing and is by far the biggest single improvement available to these boards.
Are Royal Kludge keyboards good for a first mechanical keyboard?
They are a reasonable way to find out which switch family you like without spending much, and most are hot-swappable so you can try several. What you are giving up is the case: thin plastic with no fill sounds hollow and thin, and no switch will fix that. Plenty of people start here and move on, which is a perfectly good outcome for the money.
Can I make a Royal Kludge sound better?
Yes, and cheaply, because everything wrong with it is fixable. Lubricate the stabilisers first — that removes the rattle. Add foam or tape under the PCB to kill the hollowness. Swap the thin ABS keycaps for PBT to lower the pitch. Those three changes cost a fraction of the board and get you most of the way to a keyboard three times the price.
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 Royal Kludge RK61, RK84, and RK S98 specifically. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.