When Armaggeddon sent me this product to review, I didn’t know what to expect at all. I knew Armaggeddon did a lot of products, but this is the first time I’m reviewing their earphones. With that, I said to myself “okay, let’s take it out for a spin and replacing my main pair of Beyerdynamic XP2”. That’s what I did, and here is everything I found out about the Nuke 7.
Everything starts with the packaging. While packagings are important to give the positive first impression, I found that the Nuke 7 has an unnecessarily huge packaging – but that was before I got to admire the details of the design.
They even did the effort of making cutouts and labelling the included stuff through the nicely designed packaging.
It comes with a rather huge packaging, and taking the earphones out was rather easy – in fact, it’s quite fun.
The huge packaging packs a huge piece of foam inside, where you will find the earphones themselves routed to weird paths around the foam itself, but if you realize that the main packaging box itself has some cutouts to show the earphones themselves, then you’ll appreciate it even more.
I know I did.
Taking apart everything from the packaging, I’m impressed that they actually included so many extra things for a budget pair of earphones. There’s a hard case pouch, an airplane jack, a mic/audio splitter, and the earphones themselves. What more can you ask for if you’re going to use it for mobile?
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The Nuke 7 comes with a single in-line button that only works half the time I tried using it. I have no idea why it is so, but based on what I can tell though it is due to the unit that I have or just the flaw in the Nuke 7 itself. I did find it funny that the button seems to be working if pressed with an excessive amount of force for a prolonged period of time. Your mileage may vary in this case, so I can’t speak for everyone here.
The nice flat and narrow cable is actually very tensile and springy, giving you the absolute experience for anti-tangle cables if you are going to put it in your pockets. Also, the cable terminations are build well enough that it doesn’t look like it’s going to fall out anytime soon.
However I did find out that the included case is smaller than my 67mm lens cap, and stuffing the Nuke 7 into the case would be quite a problem. Taking the earphones out however, expect some spaghetti monstrosity spilling out from the case.
The build quality of the earbuds themselves are actually very good. I am surprised that they included some solid and very stylish housing and design for the earbuds themselves. Actually, one of the best looking one ever if you’re looking for something fancy.
For my unit however it seems like some of the paintings came off. Was it another issue with the review unit? I’m not sure, but it’s not any size of a deal at all.
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Armaggeddon calls the Nuke 7 gaming earphones, which to my surprise, it’s safe to say it’s beyond that.
Albeit looking a little weird, the earphones themselves are actually very comfortable. I walked around my campus with the Nuke 7 on, and I have to say that there isn’t much pull even if the cables are far away from the ears. Noise isolation is adequate enough to bring not notice my friend beside me. Also, no cable friction noise!
Just make sure you got the correct eartip size for your ears for maximum comfort and better noise isolation.
Onward to listening tests – that’s what I am interested in too. As usual, I tested this pair of earphones with my devices and get an overall experience about it, with the OnePlus One being the main benchmarker.
I was pretty surprised when I listened to some of my favourites – beginning with Adventure Time by Rogue as usual. Instantly I found out that the Nuke 7 has a punchy bass, but doesn’t get too overwhelmingly heavy that will cause a headache. This is excellent for some swing jazz!
So I went to Shoot Him Down! by Alice Francis. Vocals seems a little muffled, but the bass strings are just excellent – they hit a great balance for the frequency response.
The same thing can be said for In The Mood by The BBC Big Band, as the usually very loud and distracting audible bass strings on other earphones are now very subtle, and highs from the trumpets gets a praise from me for being high enough – maybe a little too high at certain parts of the song.
Then I listened to some other genres of music, this time is Salome by Andre Rieu. Soundstage however is important as this is still a gaming earphone, and the Nuke 7 did not disappoint at all as it still does provide some level of soundstage. You can listen to your enemies coming from with this pair of earphones – isn’t that great?
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The Nuke 7 is after all a gaming earphone – as Armaggeddon claims it to be. I found out that this pair of earphones to be beyond that, and is actually a very solid product.
However do note too that the Nuke 7 comes in 3 different colours – black and yellow, pure white, and pure black which was the one I got to review.
For only RM129, this Nuke 7 right here – gets an A+ from me.
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Is there an Armaggeddon earphone repair specialist place? I need to fix my jack ( still 5 Months after brought it)
Hello, did you try contacting Armaggeddon back for warranty?
Gaming aside, is it suited for listening pop and mainstream musics too?
Yupe, definitely!