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Every #mx2a piece

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

Trends

Cherry's tracker slide continues. Keychron's Kickstarter delivered.

Three weeks ago thock closed a piece with two open questions: would Cherry's brand line keep closing the gap toward positive territory, and would Keychron's V6 Ultra HE Kickstarter give the tracker something new to climb on. Both questions have answers now, and they point in opposite directions for a related reason.

thockAug 30, 20267 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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