Disappointed With Cherry's Latest Release - New Nixie Switch Review

Awesome video Richard!!! Looking forward to more

very straightforward and insightful! earned yourself a sub :D

in 2023 no switches are worth hype

Interesting to hear your thoughts about using switches stock, I was going to lube these but I wanted to break them in first. Mine are from the first batch and honestly they aren't that scratch-y!

Nice video

People that spring swap Blacks are interesting. I don’t have some issue with it… but you’re swapping an already mid-weight spring to a lighter one, and you’re already using a linear, and you probably want to lube and have a “buttery smooth” switch

It’s an interesting move to essentially be shooting for the feeling of typing on a cloud or the lightest of pillows or something

My experience was that the stock spring was quite pingy without lube and that the housing had a lot of wobble due to fairly relaxed tolerances. It wasn't until I lubed, oiled, filmed that I got the most out of them. Eventually I ended up spring swapping because the spring was too heavy.

As for sound, my Nixies have a sharper sound than my mx blacks and so they suit me for a more clacky build. Do I feel like they are worth the hype? Only if you are willing to put in the work to make them good. Stock, they are not good.

Are these worth spring swapping like mx blacks, I would like to know before i desolder mine

Have you tried the opblacks or popu switches? They were designed to be the modern nixie switch and supposedly feels and sound the same.

If so are they comparable to the mx nixies? I have the popus but don't know if i should get the nixies as well.

Yes they are different. They are much worse than hyperglide and much more expensive.

they are smoother because the mold is brand new, just like some batches of mx black are smoother when cherry retools their molding but we will never know when they do that, that's why they call the cherry RNG

just get cheap taobao cherry & milkytop from china and you got nixies with half of the price, new nixies trash

Can confim these are unusable, just a duplicate cherry black at double the price.

They also have a weird feel when they are pushed off center.

I’ve had mixed results
I got two different batches from two different vendors and the first batch were literally the scratchiest switches I’ve ever felt.
Not just standard MX black scratch but double that.
And the second batch were magnitudes smoother.
So for me it is really batch specific.
I am breaking them in anyway with a break in machine because I want that MX Black sound (with the slightly more full bodied sound from the milky top) but with a smoother feel
I spring swap them for TX 65g long which also improves them no end because the new nixie springs are sooooo bad

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i completely agree about cherry scratch, honestly i like the sound of scratchy mx blacks they sound more chalky to me. chassis matters alot with cherry switches, in something like the ncr-80 and other “hollow” boards i think mx blacks really shine

Really appreciate how well you put this video together with a very clear distinction between facts and opinions

i agree to about your take about cherry scratch, i use mx brown and its kinda scratchy, but then i tried the gateron brown, its not scratchy but i dont like it because my finger like the scracth of the cherry, but my ears not

tbh, the nixies was probably a poor decision from cherry since well, its pretty hard to compete with the mx black. Instead they should have hyped up the new ergo clear or maybe make a long pole version of mx black