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Filco Majestouch
声音测试。
The board people used as the reference point for a decade, precisely because nobody tried to make it sound like anything. Press play on all four below.
Press play
What a Filco Majestouch
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.
你听到的是什么
How it
实际听起来是什么样。
The Majestouch is Cherry MX with no interpretation applied. There is no foam, no gasket, no damping, and no attempt to shape what comes out — the switch sits on a plate in a plain case and you hear both. For years this was the board reviewers compared everything else against, and it is still the cleanest baseline available.
That neutrality cuts both ways. The Blue is loud and unmistakable, and the undamped case lets it ring. The Black in particular is superb here: a heavy linear in a plain case produces a deep, deliberate knock with no ring to fight it. The Red and Brown sit where you would expect between the two.
Modern boards nearly all sound better than a Filco in the sense of sounding lower and fuller. Almost none of them sound more like the switch.
它为什么是这个声音
The build
藏在噪音背后。
Genuine Cherry MX on a steel plate in a plain plastic case with no internal fill, ABS keycaps on most versions, and no software of any kind. Filco has changed the design remarkably little over the years, which is much of its appeal — it is a build-quality-first keyboard from an era before damping became a default, and it is still made to the same standard.
- Switches
- Genuine Cherry MX
- Plate
- Steel
- Case
- Plain plastic, no fill
- Software
- None
Which one to pick
Choosing
the switch.
With nothing in the case to shape the sound, this is the most honest four-way switch comparison you can make on real hardware. The Black is the standout — a heavy linear in an undamped case is a genuinely lovely sound, and it is the configuration Filco owners recommend most often.
Same category
Other keyboards
in this category.
Or read the full round-up of 51 popular keyboards matched to a sound, and open the 键盘试音室 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.
带着它走
Want this sound
就在你的 Mac 上？
这个页面只在标签页处于活动状态时才发声。 TypeLouder plays the same recordings system-wide — in your editor, your terminal, your email — on whatever keyboard you already own, through your speakers or privately through headphones.
它从不读取或保存你的击键，而且完全没有联网能力。
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值得一问的问题
Filco Majestouch
常见问题。
Is a Filco Majestouch still worth buying?
For build quality and longevity, yes — these boards routinely outlast the computers attached to them. For sound, it is a generation behind: no foam and no gasket mount means it rings in a way modern boards do not. If you want a keyboard that will still work in fifteen years and you do not mind an undamped case, it remains a very good buy.
Why do people call the Filco a reference keyboard?
Because it adds nothing. No foam, no gasket, no tuning — just the switch, a steel plate, and a plain case. That makes it the closest thing to hearing a Cherry MX switch on its own, which is exactly what you want when comparing switches rather than keyboards. It became the default comparison point for that reason.
Does the Filco have software or RGB?
Neither, deliberately. There is no configuration software, no remapping, and no lighting on the standard models — it is a keyboard that does keyboard things and nothing else. For a lot of long-term owners that is the entire point, and it is why the design has barely changed in over a decade.
The audio on this page comes from community-recorded sound packs, used under the MIT 许可证. They are recordings of the switch family, not of a Filco Majestouch 2 specifically. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.