TTC Noble Horse HE Clip Clop Sound

Quick Summary

The TTC Noble Horse is a novelty Hall-effect linear with a literal gimmick built in: three sound packages tuned to mimic the clip-clop of a horse’s hooves. Underneath the party trick is a genuinely good HE switch — light at 35g, glassy-smooth, rock stable, with great RGB. If you have a magnetic board and want something nobody else has, it’s a delight.

Specs and Feel

Key figures: 35g initial force, 90Gs initial magnetic flux up to 480Gs at bottom-out, 3.4mm total travel on a 21mm spring, with a POM stem and PC top and bottom housings. As a Hall-effect switch the actuation is distance-based, so the press is frictionless with no chatter and the actuation point is software-adjustable. Stability is excellent — effectively no stem wobble — and the clear PC housing throws RGB through beautifully. The headline is acoustic: the trio of sound chambers produce a percussive, clacky clip-clop on each stroke that’s unlike any normal switch. The one wish is a heavier spring option for those who like a firmer press.

Tuning

Don’t lube these — the whole point is the engineered clip-clop sound, and lube would dampen the very chambers that create it, on top of the usual HE caution about lube near the sensor path. Leave them mechanically stock and do your tuning in firmware: set actuation depth and rapid trigger to taste. If you find the sound too much for a quiet room, that’s a sign these aren’t the switch for that setting rather than something to mod away.

Verdict

Buy the Noble Horse if you own a magnetic/HE keyboard and want a smooth, stable light linear with a genuinely unique sound — it’s a conversation piece that also performs. Skip it for a standard board, and skip it if you want discretion. Against TTC’s plainer Snow and KTEK New Star HE switches, the Noble Horse trades a little cost for that one-of-a-kind clip-clop — pick it for the personality.