Staebies seem amazing. But TX sounds just a little better for spacebars, to my ear at least. I wonder if it’s because they can tolerate more misalignment due to a twisting keycap. Staebies seem to rattle a little for spacebars.
for the life of me, my TX stabs for my spacebar are rattley as helllll. I balanced the wire, lubed and did some dielectric grease. I wonder what I screwed up.
after countless tuning of staebies (including the 1.2mm to 1.6mm washers), I will say TX are better. Staebies are a bit scratchier, which drives me insane from a tuned Durock set. But you'd have to holee mod the Durock, but you can't beat the smoothness of Durock.
Thanks for this! Went eith the durock for my super budget keyboard project. Gm610 eith black jellys, smokey durocks, new key caps and full lube on everything. Maybe some added dampening too under the pcb.
would love to see another comparison video featuring cherry, owlabs & c3 screw ins. TX was pretty surprising considering that they are clip in instead of screw in which is traditionally known as the best way to mount stabs, really hope they'll experiment with screw ins in the future
I have no idea why people prefer screw ins to clip ins. I’ve tuned stabs for a long time and have never heard a difference between screw in and clip in.
@@chunkymilk1288 People didn't start recommending screw-ins for the sound; early on in the hobby, we found that clip-in stabilizers had the wire pop out more often when compared to screw-ins. It seems like TX stabilizers don't have that issue as often, though. With the added bonus of easy installation.
@@apuya well that’s quite strange, because screw ins don’t prevent wires from popping out. Maybe the screw ins had a mechanism that prevented popped wires, similar to Everglide/Durocks?
Tx sounds very similiar to cherry which tbh is exactly why I like cherry yes stabs so much there is a pop no others have it'd tight controlled and just nice I still think cherry even has more pop then the tx stabs but both are amazing
I've been struggling with my Durocks and hope an alternative like the Staebies will do the trick. I really would prefer not to have to try something like the holee mod, either.
@@thegarfield6796 Let me rephrase this for the pedantic -- the only type that North American vendors stock is the Nylon variety. Keyboard Treehouse is an Australian vendor in which purchases would include expensive international shipping.
@@thegarfield6796 Well I live on the East Coast and if I wanted to buy a $8 pack of switch films (which could certainly fit in a smaller box/envelope than stabs) it would cost me $15 in shipping. Not sure how I'm wrong again. I also have a hard time believing that a vendor would send a product to you over the Pacific ocean for free.
funnily enough where i'm at, TX is both cheaper and easier to find than durocks, and from this test imo they sound great. definitely getting them for my builds
@@oImagine Yea I'm up at 7 staebies myself actually. And I just ordered 2 sets of nylon v2's. Just got the notification that they just shipped lol. TX stabs are shit. The tolerances between the stem and housing are absolutely shit. You could drive a plane through there.
@@riceoverwife really it's just the space between the stem and housing that make them suck and idk why anyone really raves about them. it will make your spacebar twist back and forth. tx stabs are really easy to put in, but screw-ins aren't hard to put in by comparison either. the space also makes tx stabs tick from time to time, because they're wobbling back and forth. staebies just stay very tight in general. there's not wobble or play there. both the PC and nylon versions are super smooth and almost need 0 lube. the wires on both TX stabs and staebies come bent as hell though. I have several packs of TX stabs currently and despite their packaging, you still need to tune the hell out of them. all in all, TX stabs are easier to get ahold of them staebies, because they're not quite as good. I would put durocks over TX stabs.