🔉DCD, JCS, XMI, CRP R6 - PBT Dye-Sub Sound Comparison Featuring DCD Hundred Acres

Blind Sound Test Comparison: kbcompare.com/test/W6q6M7
I did a written review of the DCD Keycap set on geekhack as well:
geekhack.org/index.php?topic=...
DCD Hundred Acres Keycap Set: drop.com/buy/drop-bees-keys-d...
(This is NOT an affiliate link, and I don't get any benefit for sending people to this page)
Start & JCS Arabic Q2U 00:00
Pixel Pro 7 00:45
Q9U 01:09
AT2020 01:35
NT1 01:59
Lewitt 040 02:24
XMI Vintage Q2U 02:51
Pixel Pro 7 03:30
Q9U 03:55
AT2020 04:20
NT1 04:45
Lewitt 040 05:10
CRP R6 Q2U 05:37
Pixel Pro 7 06:18
Q9U 06:43
AT2020 07:08
NT1 07:33
Lewitt 040 07:58
DCD HA Q2U 08:25
Pixel Pro 7 09:06
Q9U 09:31
AT2020 09:57
NT1 10:21
Lewitt 040 10:46
Mods & Keys
DCD HA 11:11
JCS 11:50
XMI 12:30
CRP R6 13:08
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Disclaimer
Not every sound test will mimic what a keyboard sounds like in real life. I suggest listening to other sound tests and taking everything with a grain of salt.
Remember, even if YOU record your board exactly how it sounds like in YOUR room it doesn’t mean that it’ll sound the same on someone else’s desk, in their environment, to THEIR ears.
I am not a professional, my room is not sound-treated, and a lot of my boom arms are attached to the desk that I am typing on.
I do not do sound tests to be as accurate as possible and portray what a board sounds like perfectly in real life. This is something I do for fun!
I will continue to improve my sound tests with better lighting, video, and audio, but please do not take my videos as professional-grade or “how a keyboard with this config will sound like”.
I hope that using different mics will illustrate that depending on your mic, you may catch higher/lower frequencies better than other mics, and some mics sound naturally “brighter” or “darker” than other mics, even without any filters or any sort of post-processing.
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Sound Test Specs
- Recorded in an untreated room, so background noises can sometimes be heard (and outside noise)
- Glorious 4mm thick desk mat on a solid wood desk
- Panasonic HDC-TM90 Camcorder
- Audio normalization in DaVinci Resolve for easier listening, but no other sort of EQ or alterations were made to the audio
- Recorded in Reaper and rendered in 24-bit/48 kHz
- Audio interface sample rates at 48 kHz
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Mic specs
- Lewitt 040 Matched pair of small diaphragm condenser mics in AB configuration mounted on a mic stand not in contact with the desk that I type on running into an Audient Evo 8, gain set at 2:30
- Rode NT1 5th Gen condenser mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on running into an Audient Evo 8, gain set at 2 O’Clock
- Audio Technica AT2020 condenser mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on running into an Audient Evo 8, gain set at 2 O’Clock
- Samson Q2U dynamic mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on using USB mode, gain set at 45%
- Samson Q9U dynamic mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on using USB mode, gain set at 45%, no filters or mid-boosts on
- Google Pixel 7 Pro mounted on a gooseneck mount not connected to the desk used to type on
- The Samson Q2U, Samson Q9U, Rode NT1 5th Gen, and AT2020 are in some way attached to the typing desk. The Pixel 6a and the Lewitt 040 mics are not
- Lewitt and phone 15 cm away from the top of the keycaps (rough distance between my ears and the keycaps when measured directly vertically)
- All other mics 15 cm away diagonal from the top of the keycaps to my ears (thanks for the tip, Ray)
- No windscreens or pop filters are attached to any of the mics
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Keyboard Specs
Jixte60
Board specs
- No foam/dampening whatsoever
- PP Full Plate
- O-Ring (70a durometer)
- Brass inner and outer weights
- Cherry clip-ins lubed and tuned w/205g0
- DCD Hundred Acres
- JCS Arabic
- XMI Vintage Support R1
- CRP R6 2551 HAD
Switches
- KTT Roses spring swapped with Geon 22mm single-stage 67.5 gram springs. Springs jar lubed w/GPL105. 205g0 on switch stems only.

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Originally part of the DCD Hundred Acres review video, I figured I'd split this and upload it separately. Feel free to use the KBCompare link to listen to the four keycaps with the same mic (Lewitt 040 Match pair in AB config): kbcompare.com/test/W6q6M7