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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.

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

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

Split illustration: on the left, a muted line-drawing of a standard MX-style switch cross-section labelled cooling; on the right, a coral-accented cross-section of a magnetic switch with a stem-mounted magnet over a sensor pad, labelled XTRFY, TMR pivot.

Trends

Cherry bets on magnetic: the XTRFY pivot

Cherry's mainline MX switches have spent the better part of a year losing ground on the tracker. On July 3, 2026, Cherry's gaming sub-brand XTRFY answered not with another MX revision but with a magnetic-sensing switch — and gave the parent brand its first positive tracker signal in months.

thockJul 12, 20267 min read

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