JBL PartyBox 310 vs SOUNDBOKS (Gen. 3)

Thanks for the review, but please consider also tricks from the keyboard developers in your reviews!

I’ve been using several Logitech Silent Wireless Keyboard K295 (MK295) items for more than 3 years and figured out that they’re silent only on the first 1-3 months of usage, and after 3-6 months they became very loud, even louder than other “non-silent” keyboards!

This happened with all 5 items of my K295 keyboards after several months of usage, depending on the usage activity. Some of them I use at home, some - at offices, so the usage activity is different. But after 6 months all of them became non-silent at all!

This fact sounds like a marketing trick to show the really silent keyboard in reviews, but this silence is just temporary!

And, I’m afraid that Logitech uses the same trick for the Logitech MX Keys S and other models too!

So, Could you please try to somehow include this trick checking in your next reviews? Thanks!

Mar 12, 2024 06:44 AM By murz

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Thanks for the review, but please consider also tricks from the keyboard developers in your reviews! I’ve been using several Logitech Silent Wireless Keyboard K295 (MK295) items for more than 3 years and figured out that they’re silent only on the first 1-3 months of usage, and after 3-6 months they became very loud, even louder than other “non-silent” keyboards! This happened with all 5 items of my K295 keyboards after several months of usage, depending on the usage activity. Some of them I use at home, some - at offices, so the usage activity is different. But after 6 months all of them became non-silent at all! This fact sounds like a marketing trick to show the really silent keyboard in reviews, but this silence is just temporary! And, I’m afraid that Logitech uses the same trick for the Logitech MX Keys S and other models too! So, Could you please try to somehow include this trick checking in your next reviews? Thanks!

Hi murz,

We’re not against long term testing but to get there we need to overcome some challenges. Our keyboards are in storage after the review so we’d need build a machine that can wear out the keyboard and then we need to duplicate this for all the keyboards. It would be immensely cool to do. I can think of a machine that runs non stop until we ran 1'000'000 keystrokes but building this machine to be reliable is a challenge (can recover from a power loss, etc).

I’ll add this to our suggestion tracking because it’s really cool but also because it does have a great impact to the user experience long term and could lead to regret buying a specific keyboard. This is a very long term goal so please don’t be disappointed if we don’t add this to our reviews for the foreseeable future.

Thanks again for reaching out and even more the the concrete examples, this gives us a benchmark and a lead about which keyboards to pay attention to when designing the test and validating it.