But for just a couple hundred bucks more, you can get the larger, comfier Spellond with its larger driver and better microphone. You’re securing decent sound at very little cost with the Snuk, considering that they’ll set you back R700. The Sades SA-902 Snuk is a cheaper edition of the Spellond, which we were surprisingly taken with during our time with them. We prefer our microphones a lot closer to our cheeks but the sound is fantastic – especially at this price. The mic helps if you’re doing recon in your favourite multiplayer shooter, though we’re less impressed with the left-hand placement and the rigid bow. The delightful sound of birds (or bullets) orbiting your skull is more than enough to make you forget that you’ve been parked in the same chair for six hours attempting to clear a level that just won’t die. Turn the sound down somewhat and you’re going to experience clear audio that holds up as the volume rises.īut the Snuk is much more capable in a gaming environment when it’s emulating a 7.1 surround setup. It’s loud as balls when you’re just consuming music, enough to blast your ear-drums into oblivion if you weren’t paying attention to your software sound settings. Used as a conventional stereo headset it has the same issue, if you can call it that, as the Spellond. Which brings us to the really important bits, though we’ll take comfort as a close second. PC or Mac, it just works (please don’t sue us, Apple). As it happened, just plugging in the USB was enough on our test machines. Like the Spellond from Sades, the Snuk comes with a driver disc that we could have used to get everything up and running. The quality of the headband padding has also dropped somewhat but it’s still comfortable for extended periods.Ĭonnection: Braided cable (3 metre), USB only The cup and headband padding is less generous this time around, which is to be expected with a cheaper headset. There’s a smaller in-line control that manages volume as well as mic and sound output mute options, though there’s no vibration or ‘glitter’ (also known as lights) options to be found. There are lights (blue) in the cups themselves when they’re powered by the USB connected that sits at the end of the braided 3 metre cable.
That doesn’t mean it’s rigid, you could probably stand on these cans and they’ve walk away unscathed. The head-strap also remains plastic, though with less flex this time around.
Construction is still largely plastic, with sturdy ear-cups that are sized a couple of notches down but which still manage to cover the ears – unless you’re the BFG. The Snuk is a smaller pair of headphones than the Spellond pair that Stuff was playing with recently, with a smaller driver and differences in the build and mic-placement.
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