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Cherry MX2A Silent Black

Spec sheet

Type: Silent linear
Top housing: Nylon
Bottom housing: Nylon
Stem: POM
Spring: 60g actuation · 100g bottom-out
Travel: 3.7 mm
Factory lubed: yes
Released: Aug 24, 2023

Silent linear from Cherry's MX2A revision with rubber dampeners on the stem. Shares the standard MX2A Black's 60cN spring but the stem dampener pads shave 0.3mm off total travel. Quiets bottom-out and top-out without losing the MX2A factory lube; office-friendly pick that doesn't fight the typist.

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Split cross-section line drawing of a mechanical switch. The left half shows a stem with elastomer pads on the foot of its legs and the top of its rails, picked out in a dusty-rose splash; the right half shows a housing with a dampening ring seated at the floor. Rendered in a single warm-grey stroke with a brass-bronze theme dot at the upper right.

Deep Dives

What a silent switch actually silences — and what it can't

Every keystroke lands twice — once on the floor, once on the ceiling. Cherry molds an elastomer pad onto the stem to catch both; Gazzew fits a silicone one. The undamped Boba U4T shows what either approach is buying — about 14 dB on one tester's meter — and what it costs in travel, rebound, and a bump with nowhere left to go.

thockAug 19, 202610 min read

Three switch silhouettes in a row — a tactile, a silent tactile, and a linear — sharing one continuous housing outline drawn in a single warm-grey stroke, with a coral splash pooled beneath the middle silent-tactile silhouette and a brass-bronze theme dot at the upper right

Deep Dives

The Boba Family: One Housing Blend, Five Switches, and the Sound thock Is Named For

Gazzew designs, Outemu molds, and a plastic softer than nylon does the rest. Every Boba is the same chamber with something deliberately left out — and the pattern of subtractions is the whole family tree.

thockJul 27, 202610 min read

Cherry MX2A switch cross-section, side view — top housing with stem hole, cruciform-mount POM stem column drawn in cherry-red splash, 5-coil spring, bent-leaf contact, and bottom housing with pin contacts; a thin dashed callout traces from the stem-housing interface to a magnified circular inset showing the new factory grease ring with scattered lube dots.

Deep Dives

What Cherry's MX2A revision actually changed

Cherry's MX2A landed in 2023 with a real engineering update — factory lube, tighter tolerances, the same 100M-press lifespan. The reason the discourse cooled isn't that the switch failed; it's that the enthusiast slot it aimed at was already claimed by the time it arrived.

thockMay 10, 20268 min read

Cherry MX2A Silent Black appears in editor-curated build sheets.

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