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bottom out springs are silver in color with a slightly greater thread per length count than normal, MX-style springs, though not to such a large degree as to make them particularly stand out. Initially it was rather disappointing, but once the latest driver was installed it was quite impressive. MKUltra is a US vendor that truly fills all the gaps other vendors simply don’t offer and is continuing to expand their switch and switch related peripherals by the day. All things considered, though, regardless of the personal disappointment of mine and the Mute Jades’ overall seemingly underperforming nature versus expectations at large, I would be completely remiss to not address the historical nature of these switches and their strongest redeeming qualities to me. Stopping by the Box Mute Jade stems, these grey (and not green) stems come unlubed from the factory and appear no different from that of other Box style stems which I’ve seen prior.
The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. These are little notes of interest I generated when comparing these switches to the Box Mute Jades side by side. Keeping in mind that I hardly, if ever, get around to opening and inspecting Box style switches, all of the traditional components of the stem that I am aware of are present.Interestingly, I do want to note that the spec sheet has a small region of interest marked as an ‘Angle of Slope of Shaft’ diagram, shown below, that I haven’t felt all the inclined to share previously but find highly interesting in the current moment. This 3-Pin switch's base is engineered with a hollowed-out light position design to offer SMD-LED light compatibility and incorporates an MX stem structure to be compatible with most mechanical keyboards on the market.
The Kailh Box Mute Jades are better than the Gateron Ink Blue V2 switches with respect to stem wobble in both the N/S and E/W directions. As well, the top housings have no budge to them whatsoever due to the iconic winglatch style design, as to be expected. Without all that much in the way of hard and fast details provided, what was shared about the Mute Jades was a description of their design followed by a brief, single switch sound comparison between a prototype and a normal Box Jade switch. From experience, squishier O-rings would likely cause the jailhoused switches to feel more in line with the Box Mute Jades.
Perhaps in time I will devise a way to go about measuring these features, but for the current moment I wanted to partially address why you don’t see them here in this review. Aside from the Kailh Box regular switches, the Box Jade, Box Navy and Box Cream also join the family. Speculation as to whether or not there is some sort of underlying thematic design scheme that eludes me, though, will have to be pushed to another article. I received both BOX Jades and Navies so naturally the first thing that I did was open up the bags and test them out individually, comparing them to their counterparts the BOX White and Pale Blues. One rather subtle point that I do want to note, though, is that there is a pretty noticeable spread in sound of these switches across the batch that I received from Novelkeys.
International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Given that I usually reserve the slots at the beginning of these articles for meta-based commentary about my personal life, keyboard life, or the community at large, I couldn’t help but make the majority of you who read my content aware of this facet of life for content creators large and small in the hobby space.As well, the addition of the O-ring in the jailhouse modification of the Cherry MX Blue switch did absolutely nothing to alter the stem wobble of the switch, continuing to make it significantly more wobbly than the Kailh Box Mute Jades.
Now, the build went much as expected except when it came to the more open portions of the plate, being manufactured in a softer material (I believe the plate was Delron, which is similar to acrylic but with a bit more flex). Appearing to show clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) rotations on this diagram, it would appear that Kailh expects that the tolerances of their has at maximum a one degree rotational ‘wobble’ which I find particularly interesting given that I naturally have felt measuring N/S and E/W wobble to be more indicative of normal use cases rather than a rotational wobble. But the parts I received were perfect and delivered very well in great packaging and it wasn't too expensive. Reminds me more of MX Clear but more tactile (I sold my MX Clear board so I can’t compare the two right now).Created with a box around the cross stem instead of the cross stem just sticking up, they’re built to avoid corrosion and debris buildup. Looking at the exterior of the bottom housings, the five pin, white-opaque housings have a few slight deviations from normally expected switch designs. The creates a decent sized tactile bump that is more defined than the BOX Whites and more rounded than the BOX Jades.
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