cheapo abs is mx blue sounds better than thin pbt and thick pbt.
abs able to bring out the crispy clicky sounds from the MX blue.
Pbt will make mx blue sounds sharper
"Clicky for life".

What is normal DCS profile? I'm confused.
Taihao is OEM profile.

The picture you showed was keycaps profile.
Signature Plastics produced DCS, DSA, SA, LP, KT, SS profile keycaps.

OEM(Original Equipment Manufacturer) key caps profile or standard profile are come from manufactured stock keyboard such as mainstream brand Vortex, WASD, DAS, Filco, Ducky, Deck etc etc.

Cherry Profile typically found in those keyboards made by them or aftermarket keycaps like imsto, bsp, gmk, etc. Cherry profile is lower in height compared to OEM.

Selling like a hot cake
Btw, why you want this dolch? any reason?

Any special reason you want to stick with CM Storm QF TK?

I believed they recommend you Ultimate instead of TK.
Here are some pictures of each model.


CM Storm QuickFire TK


CM Storm QuickFire Ultimate


Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja TKL (White Color)


Filco Majestouch 2 TKL (White Color)

By the way, which layout you like?
Full layout - QuickFire Ultimate
96 layout - QuickFire TK
Tenkeyless (TKL) - Filco TKL

Layout is important. Each layout has different brands and price too. There are a lot of brands of there.

Which hammer case you bought? Red premium? Got picture?

Please don't. Razer blackwidow always out of the choice.
Just choose some decent keyboard like rosewill, ducky, filco, vortex.

There is a full layout limited edition Filco selling at RM330 in garage sales. When you have time, you go there check and see.

Welcome to mechanical keyboard club.
I did clicked all the links provided by you.
I take Lifehacker.com as example below.

Lifehacker article:


From the articles, I only know some information about this keyboard. I list it out below:
- Razer BlackWidow Ultimate using Cherry MX blue (louder but not horribly loud), Razer BlackWidow using Cherry MX Brown (quieter)
- Razer BWU is full-size with 6 programmable keys on the left side
- individual-key LED backlighting with adjustable brightness, media controls on function keys
- additional usb port
- braided cables
- audio passthrough
- on-the-fly macro recording
- $111 at amazon, $139 direct buy from Razer

From your perspective, do you think the articles give you enough informations?

http://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/help-das-k...nical-keyboard/ <-- DAS also top 5

Ya, mkb all about the switches. You are right.
Same brand switches on different board do feel differently. That's why brand like Filco so godly.
About the Razer BlackWidow 2013, their MX Cherry Blue not as loud(dampen) as other brands.

So, for lifehacker article, IMO really unprofessional. You agreed that switches are the most important part.
When you look at lifehacker article, they mentioned mx blue is loud, mx brown is quieter.
They not even mentioned that MX blue is heavier tactile+clicky, MX brown is lighter tactile switch.

The reason why I not recommend Razer Blackwidow although it's using mx blue because:
- non-standard layout (it's hard to find replacement keycaps)


Why we need replace our keycaps? Because abs keycaps will get shiny after long time of typing (few months)

You can get replacement keycaps set like pbt materials because it resist to shiny. Everyone here bought mechanical keyboard for long run.
Most of us target above 5-20 years at least.

For BWU to replace keycaps, you need buy a normal keycaps set, and a tsangan kit (picture in the spoiler below), additional cost.
Not all keycaps set do have tsangan kit option.


Futhermore, when the keyboard plate corroded when you use the keyboard for long time. Maybe we will want to replace the plate on the keyboard.
Alu or stainless steel plate.

BWU does not support this kind of plate replacement, because BWU not standard layout.

And, standard layout do support changing casing.


Because of a simple non-standard layout, you limit yourself in mechanical keyboard's modability, maintainability for long run.

Realforce Topre 45g TKL 2nd hand in garage sales RM600 only.
Reasonable.

Oh. So, what you want?