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I've even found old voyagers that don't feel quite as good as others.
That's not surprising, if one has had more wear than another. The life of the domes isn't n cycles without no change and then sudden abrupt failure. They degrade (wear) with use.
The question is how much variability was there when the Voyagers were new, and I think the answer is "not much". I used perhaps two dozen Voyagers before 1986, and there were no noticeable differences in key feel at the time.
But is the performance of the domes in a new 12C (not 12c Platinum) significantly different than the original dome performance of a 12C made in the early 1980s? If they have been redesigned using different domes (or no metal domes), they could be noticeably different. I haven't used any new 12Cs in a long time. The 12c Platinum keyboard does not feel quite the same to me as the original Voyagers.
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The company I chose for OpenRPN is Snaptron.
Based on experience, or just on the published specifications? Most if not all of the dome vendors offer similar specifications. As it happens, I was considering Snaptron as well, though I haven't yet evaluated their products.