If there’s one feature worth talking about on the Light Mount before all others, it’s the key switches. Be Quiet’s proprietary silent switches deliver brand-consistent whispery keystrokes while maintaining a pleasant level of resistance to make typing feel satisfying. As a writer and casual gamer, I love the slight resistance that comes from the small bump inside of tactile switches. Still, if you want to remove the resistance altogether, the Light Mount is available with linear switches for ultra-sensitive, unimpeded keystrokes that won’t, say, disturb co-workers or wake the sleeping baby in the next room.
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To bolster noise dampening, the Light Mount backs up its silent switches with three layers of foam and silicone to absorb vibrations and fill any echoey, empty space inside the keyboard’s chassis. While adding layers of material to make a keyboard quieter isn’t a wholly original idea, it does wonders for this keyboard compared with other builds.
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To test the difference the layers of sound dampening make, I popped off the Light Mount’s hot-swappable PCB and 5-pin MX switches and put them into my everyday keyboard at home, the Inland Gaming MK Pro 75% Keyboard. To my surprise, I found a difference: Even though the MK Pro has a gasket mount and two layers of foam, there was a distinct “thocc” to the keystrokes that I didn’t hear on the Light Mount.
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Meanwhile, the Light Mount’s volume knob is easy to access and satisfying to use, a much more intuitive design than the volume roller on the pricier Dark Mount. Ironically, clicking the mute control that sits atop the Light Mount’s volume knob is notably louder than the rest of the buttons on the keyboard.
