Hot take: someone told me to stop using cheap foam in my builds and I fought it for months

A guy in a Discord server kept saying normal case foam kills the sound profile and I thought he was being pretentious. Finally swapped to a silicone mat in my Tofu65 build last month and he was right, my keystrokes actually have some character now instead of just mush. Has anyone else had that moment where they resisted advice for too long?

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thea24626d ago

Oh man, I was exactly the same. Told myself foam was fine because it was cheap and easy, and I didn't want to drop more cash. Finally tried a PE foam sheet in my board just to shut someone up and it was night and day. The sound went from dead thock to actually having some pop and clarity on the upstroke. You gotta just bite the bullet and test one thing at a time, foam then foamless, and let your ears decide.

richard_wells5925d ago

Funny how that applies to so many things in life honestly lol.