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TIL that Royal Kludge used to sell a couple of Topre clone boards. Is yours any good when not trying to put your eye out?
It's firmly "OK", though I was never a big Topre fan. It was amazing for the price and it is better when you remove the o-rings that are meant to dampen the sound. Once the dampers are out it and you replace the caps (uses standard MX caps), the 55G version feels like a slightly better version of the old Cooler Master Novatouch 45g. It is also backlit with RGB, which wasn't a thing for Topre boards at that point. I'm actually curious if the RGB Topre membranes feels just like the ones used by the RK.
Interesting. I don't have a Topre, but I do have an electrocapacitive military keyboard with a sealed silicone membrane. The NKRO is kinda neat, especially on a 30-year-old PS2 board, and it's nice enough as long as you don't bottom out, which unfortunately I pretty much always do.
Weirdly, I feel like Topre are almost designed to encourage and cushion a bottom out. The membrane dome collapses really high in the press and then you get bounced back up by the conic springs underneath. It doesn't do it for me, but some people love it.