Amrmaggeddon, as you all should know, is a brand that makes a bunch of gaming peripherals on the cheap – and by that I mean that it’s a no-frills type of products. This time, they sent me the Fuze 3C for review, which I think is not bad at all! Let’s check it out!
Packaging
Armaggeddon’s packaging style has been one of the simplest I’ve seen – I don’t mean their design, but how they lay things out and place the products and its documentations and whatnot in the box itself. In the Fuze 3C’s case, there are absolutely no unnecessary printings at all.
Looks good straight on, and that’s it.
Opening up the box, get the Fuze 3C headphone out, and some documentations. That’s it.
Dang, I love this straight forward approach of packaging. I mean, it is completely different from those “premium packaging” where thousands were invested on improving it, but it’s a one-time thing. Make the product cheaper or invest those money on something else, that’ll be better.
Design and ports
The Fuze 3C is amazingly huge. I mean seriously, the earcups themselves are nearly as big as my hands! Actually, I love this design style. I do have big ears and this humongous earcup does help a lot. Yet the foam is relatively thick too.
Armaggeddon made the entire Fuze 3C with relatively good materials. Though it’s plastic and felt a little hollow, it’s actually constructed out of thick plastic.
There are even some chromed and brushed aluminium bits too. It’s quite a surprise to see such things on a budget gaming headphone, to be honest.
The headband material worries me a little, as the the foam inside is wrapped by some sort of very smooth faux leather material, but is a little stretchable.
Then comes the earcups themselves. It has some sort of lightning pattern on ear earcup and comes with pre-configured RGB lighting. There are absolutely no way that there lights can be tuned, at least after all attempts I’ve tried. More on this later.
Funny enough that Armaggeddon seems have their products appealed to left-handed people more, as both the USB cable and the microphone at on the left side. There’s also a switch to mute the microphone and an independent volume control wheel on the left side of the earcup. That means there’s nothing on the right side.
Let’s not forget that the Fuze 3C here can only be used via its one and only braided USB cable. This is one of the things I’m glad that Armaggeddon did – implementing the sound card inside the headphone itself.
Comfort
As mentioned before – the earcups are huge and it’s comfortable. The yoga mat-like material on the headband is curiously amazing. Even though the headphone is quite heavy, the headband did a very good job in dampening the force and the earcups sit excellently on the ear with no issues!
The adjustable headband is pretty flexible, as there is a huge selection of sizes for you to choose from!
I wore the Fuze 3C for quite some time now, and I got to say that it feels better than I expect.
Sound quality
Here comes the main part of this pair of headphones that is the Fuze 3C. It sounds quite okay actually, but as I’ve said, the Fuze 3C sits on my head – which meant it didn’t clamp. Without clamping means that there is no seal between the earcup and my ears and air would leak out, which means noise isolation is definitely a no-no here.
There is a silver lining here actually, as there is no clamping force by the earphones, I (thankfully) didn’t get any sort of headache at all – and I have to raise the importance of this as the most recent gaming headphone I reviewed gave me a painful headache whenever I wear it longer than 5 minutes. I’d say this is a good job for Armaggeddon on the Fuze 3C!
As for the sound it produces however, the Fuze 3C is a little too heavy on the bass. Every song that I’ve played on this pair of headphone is just too bassy, and that goes for all songs I’ve played on the Fuze 3C. That said, bassy songs like dubstep, techno, or electronic music is now even bassier than before!
Since it is a 7.1 surround sound headphone, the soundstage is relatively disappointing, as it sounded more like a stereo headphone instead. Seriously, I’m quite disappointed by its soundstage, but the high and mids are decent – not the best, just decent.
As for the gaming part of things, the bass here are amazing. The explosions sound great, the pew pew sounds even better. For this price, I never though I’ll get such an experience at all.
Software
I downloaded the software for the Fuze 3C from Armaggeddon’s website – it was 91.4MB and I was quite surprised about the file size. No matter. I waited a while for the file to download, and once it was done I extracted the .rar file and got quite a number from it – drivers all the way for Windows XP machines up until Windows 10! WOW.
Then I launched the setup.exe file as usual and installed the software. To my surprise, the software had absolutely no writings or branding or texts that says “Fuze 3C” or “Armaggeddon”, but instead there are words like “Xear” and “CMedia” written all over. Still, I installed and and ahhh, Armaggeddon Fuze 3C’s sound card is by CMedia, with the sound card coming from their line of products called Xear.
The software itself is minimalist too – but in a bad way. Seriously I don’t know why anyone would install this software. It does absolutely nothing helpful at all, and yet changing its mode from “Hi-Fi” to Movie or Music sounds horrifying.
There’s also a “Manual” mode too – but it doesn’t work. Why????????????
Wrap up
Okay, I’ve said quite a lot about this pair of Fuze 3C. It’s actually quite decent, but I’m disappointed at just 2 things – the soundstage and also the software. Other than that, it’s just decent. It’s not pricey too – going for about RM169 now from Leapfrop (Armaggeddon’s company) directly from Lazada.
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