Like a mild Silent Box Brown, but better.

TL;DR: Modest in both sound and tactility, but still more crisp than your average "brown" in the mx-compatible space. A very balanced, office-friendly switch. North-facing Cherry profile compatibility.

Here's a quick sound-test:

I’d tried this before even mounting the Box Creams in a tester board. (How could I resist?)

What we have here is a subtle but significant improvement over the standard Silent Box Brown, with a couple possible exceptions, one of which can be compensated for. If you want RGB, chances are this isn’t the switch for you - but a modest amount of light will make it through. If you prefer the stronger tactility of the Silent Box Brown, you can swap-in the leaf.

As detailed here with the simple stem-swap, this switch has tactility similar to a standard Box Brown with the dampening of the Silent version, and the sound and feel benefits of the POM housing. Thanks to the spring, it doesn’t ping like many of its boxy cousins do. Now there’s some change I can get behind.

Not as quiet as a Gazzew / Outemu silent, Box Silents do have a slightly more firm, stable "thud" to the bottom-out thanks to the more wide, flat dampening pads.

From what I can tell, another benefit of all the newer round stems (silent or otherwise) is that they don’t appear to suffer (as much) from the inconsistent resting position issue that most of the square ones tend to. Like other Box switches with the newer tapered housing, these have North-facing Cherry compatibility.

*Lubing this switch will make it more smooth, but it may also encourage the tactile parts to make a modest but noticable clicking sound. This could either be good or bad, depending on your goals.

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