Redragon Kala K557

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Open the box and evaluate the design

The Kala K557’s Redragon has a fairly clear player style with red and black eye color. Perhaps the name of the brand or gaming device based on the name of the animals is no stranger, the most famous of which must be Razer with a “snake gene”. Dragons and snakes are always the creatures of intense inspiration to arouse the “enthusiasm” for the players. Redragon – right from the name of this Chinese manufacturer has a dragon image, and the products are not out of this “dragon”.

The top and bottom of the box showcase key highlights and technical specifications written in English. Inside the box, we have a user manual, warranty card, driver disk, KeyPuller (tool to remove the Keycap to clean or replace the Keycap easily), a home-made switch to change the switch, A small box of 8 replacement switches (Blue, Red, Black, Brown), and of course the Kala K557 keyboard.

Redragon Kala K557 is a model of 104 fullsize keyboards with simple design, beautiful appearance, build quality is very strong with metal surface (aluminum and ABS) hard painted black, The surface of the keys “lumpy” for the feeling of “strong” players, not fingerprints. Personally, the font on the keycap is not very good (but the style is still bad!) But loud, clear and quite easy to see even without turning on the LED. Moreover, laser engraving ensures high durability and does not wear out after long use.

Overall it is black with the most noticeable highlight being the prominent Redragon brand that is printed above the 4 directional arrow keys. This keyboard uses an ANSI layout (recognizable as the long and lean Enter key) with a standard layout that is familiar to the user. The included 12 multimedia buttons are integrated into the system’s built-in Fn key as the design of many other keyboards. Underneath there is a millet with circular knuckles, the palm of the hand feels quite “wrinkled”, making the wrist much more comfortable when using the keyboard for a long time like playing games or typing text. However, it also makes the product become bulky when it comes to moving.

This metal surface is both a plate and a keyboard cover, which saves the operator a step up to the top of the plastic cover to divide the keys as traditional designs. This can be considered as an advantage because not many keyboard models priced under $100 get this. Just like the surface of the keys, it is also lacquered and fingerprint-free, which makes the Kala K557 look rather ‘naked’ but in return it is much easier to clean dust.

The bottom of the Kala Kragon redesigned quite strange with many quadrilateral hexagonal. Although this is not necessary and does not affect much use. It has two non-slip rubber feet on the underside of the palm rest, with two extra pitches, depending on demand, providing great stability and stability when used by the keyboard firmly attached. The table is not moved. The keyboard strap is quite long and it is wrapped in a very sturdy strap, plus the gold-plated USB connector for anti-oxidation, ensuring consistent transmission quality. The disadvantage is that the back side does not have any wires so the signal head is fixed in the center of the edge instead of left and right to help make the area more neat.

Learn about Switches, some of the highlights, and a keyboard experience

Redragon, made in China, uses a switch on the Kala K557 keyboard as a Chinese brand, called Outem.

This switch is designed to imitate the switch Cherry is famous for both features and shape, the manufacturer’s durability provided is about 50 million hit. In the sense of typing on the keyboard, the feedback force is good, the tickle is quite stimulating, the sensation is quite sensitive but the response is a bit heavier than Cherry’s. At the price it offers, it’s perfectly acceptable for anyone who wants to experience the keyboard. Optimal for the LED backlight system, the top cover of the switch has been transparent, better light dissipation.

Each plate mounted switch not only makes the keys more secure, but also enhances the illumination of the LEDs to make the character on the display bright, the effect when the light on more impressive.

At the highest brightness level, it’s not hard to see the keys in the office environment. If you feel too dazzling, you can adjust the dimming with 5 brightness levels via the Fn (-) or Fn (+) function key. The effect of changing the color of the led lights consists of 7 different display modes by pressing Fn key combination with Ins, Home, PgUp … at the top of 4 directional arrow keys. You can also adjust small functions in each display mode of the lamp such as increasing speed, brightness or custom color to your liking.

Long keys like Space, Backspace, Enter, Shift … use two keys to balance (Cherry stabilizer). This mechanism provides a higher level of stability than the Costar stabilizer, which makes the user feel good, the balance key and the switch’s journey are guaranteed, without the ‘down’ of the stabilizer down. However, when removing the keycap, it seems that the stabilizer is not attached to the plate very well, making it a bit difficult to reassemble and feel uncertain, but not affect the keystrokes.

Plastic buttons on the Redragon Kala K557 are molded by doubleshot technology (pressed twice to increase the hardness) through the LED, ensuring the durability over time, never blurring. Only thing is to use the keyboard will be difficult to avoid.

The keypad is equipped with Windows key lock feature to keep gaming uninterrupted while accidentally clicking, avoiding the inhibition when playing the game that is released. A very special feature that is also included in Kala is Anti-ghosting, which allows you to press all of the keys at the same time, but the keyboard still ensures full reception. Surely the gamers will never miss any combo skill, no matter how many keys you use.

Key stroke up to 4mm but high sensitivity should only force press 50 – 15g. Even when you are accustomed to this keypad, you just press the cruise key 1.5 ± 0.2 mm when the switch is barely enough, it is also the time when the characteristic latch and excitement of the switch. However, the sound is a little bit larger than the Cherry Blue switch, which is already the loudest. It will get you attention in the office environment and may be annoying to those around you but more exciting in the gaming environment. In addition, 12 convenient mutimedia keys from F1 to F12 with the following functions:

F1: Open the default player – F2: Reduce the volume – F3: Increase the volume – F4: Mute – F5: Stop – F6: Save the song – F7: Play / Pause – F8: F10: Open browser – F11: Calculator – F12: Search. The use of these keys is quite simple, the key combination Fn + “F … any”

For gamers, the choice of keyboard will provide the optimum gaming experience due to the superior features of the keyboard, such as durability, responsiveness and design. The K55 K557 is not a 100% dedicated keyboard for gamers when the manufacturer does not invest in hardware (equipped with its own Macro keys), software compensation (with software control, assignment key or key combination).

Despite the lack of features, the gaming experience of the writer is not affected much. With the FPS game like CS: GO requiring the keys to be used in a very flexible way, situations such as reversing direction, jumping, shooting, extraction, and combinations of these keyboards responded very well. With the above game, the writer felt that the lack of Macro key does not affect much. However, for immersive games, the macros play a more important role. Anti-ghosting works very well, making sure you do not miss any buttons when using it at the same time.

Conclude:

Advantages

+ Build pretty good, sturdy and sure

+ Feeling good typing

+ Anti-ghosting feature

+ Multi-mode RGB LEDs, which support individual color settings for each key

Defect

– Strange switch has not created the complete trust of the user

– The cable is not removable

– Bad font

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