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I sat on probably fifty different sofas before I shelled out £1700 / $2300 for this, comfiest leather sofa eva though.
Colours are optional.
Finally Ready to Take the Plunge: Gaming Chair Thread
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I sat on probably fifty different sofas before I shelled out £1700 / $2300 for this, comfiest leather sofa eva though.
Colours are optional.
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Yes, I saw this, and my question remains. Do they make a chair targeting taller men?
6'6" and 290lbs max load on this thing.
This chair swallows me at 5'9", and my 6'3" friend sat in it over the weekend and loved it, just moved the headrest pillow up a tad.
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My wife got me this chair out of the blue a few days ago:
When I dragged the package inside I asked her if she bought a chair, her response was "its for you" it caught me off guard so I asked "why"... (I have 2 matching Sauder Gruga X-Vibe gaming chairs, and just dropped $50 on a nice seat cushion/lumbar pad), apparently its for fathers day and Im an asshole.
This f**cking thing costs over $600, I Havent even opened it yet.
When I dragged the package inside I asked her if she bought a chair, her response was "its for you" it caught me off guard so I asked "why"... (I have 2 matching Sauder Gruga X-Vibe gaming chairs, and just dropped $50 on a nice seat cushion/lumbar pad), apparently its for fathers day and Im an asshole.
This f**cking thing costs over $600, I Havent even opened it yet.
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My wife got me this chair out of the blue a few days ago:
When I dragged the package inside I asked her if she bought a chair, her response was "its for you" it caught me off guard so I asked "why"... (I have 2 matching Sauder Gruga X-Vibe gaming chairs, and just dropped $50 on a nice seat cushion/lumbar pad), apparently its for fathers day and Im an asshole.
This f**cking thing costs over $600, I Havent even opened it yet.
Damn....... Lucky SOB.
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Hey, I'm looking at getting a new chair too. Wife and I bought one from Sam's Club today and its not going to work for me. I'm similar to your size (5'10 180) and I currently use a big and tall chair because I like to be able to sit normal, lean back and watch tv, and sit cross legged at times, so it needs to be a large ish chair that still functions like a normal sized one. Do you know if this one is the right size for that, can you sit cross legged in it if you wanted to?
Or, can someone else point me in a direction of a chair that might work for me? My current chair is way past its prime, the wife absolutely hates sitting in it, and I don't blame her. $400 is nothing if its the perfect chair, we use it so much.
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The chair itself is ENOURMOUS. Me being 5'9" and sitting all the way back with my ass at the bend, my knees are barely able to bend around the seat. So their is a HUGE base on this thing for someone much larger than us to sit, or us to sit cross legged.
The thing leans all the way back, all but flat. It is stiff at first, but after a few gaming sessions, it breaks in well. If you go awhile without sitting in it, it goes back to being stiff again. This is a pretty good sign for me, because after playing 30-40 hours of PoE during league launches within a few days, this chair just feels better and better to me as my sessions go on.
The shear amount of customizations this thing has in the arm rests and everything else is just outstanding. It will literally mold to anyone 5'7" ish to well over 6' tall IMO. It's a plunge though as far as prices go, but if this broke from old age, I would no doubt by another one.
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Imagine having something in your house like this.Well folks, I have been buying $75-$150 chairs almost once every 1 to 1.5 years for the past 5 years now, and have yet to REALLY find that one that gets me. This is making me think that I am just not budgetting enough for my asses sake, so now, I am kinda going off the rails on a chair budget and opening up my wallet a little. If I can find one that fits all my needs, I am willing to drop around $400 or so.
Needs:
What are your guys experiences like with the chairs you game/work in? Is my budget still not big enough?
- Cannot be a cloth seat. Don't wanna smell yesterdays farts when I sit down. Well, sometimes I like smelling my own farts, but I don't want someone to plop down in MY chair and smell MY air.
- Has to stand up to about 20 hours of gaming per week, forever, or as close to forever as it can. Use to game SOOOO much more, but now I have these damn kids....
- Has to support a 5'9" ish, 200lb-ish man. Yes, I guess I am a pudgy manlet. Sue me.
- Will add more as I think of them
Here is what I have been looking into:
https://www.dxracer.com/us/en-us/product/1/gaming_chairs/racing_series/oh-rv001-nr/
Thoughts Sherbros?
Edit (Reason for having so many chairs):
Our house is growing. I went from having an office with 1 desk and 1 pc, to now having 3 desks with 3 pc's, on my 4th now. Wife has her office, kid has her own pc, I have my gamer, and the 4th is a spare.
We only have 3 chairs right now, so I always get the new one. Been fishing for "the one", haven't found it yet.
I guess explaining this should be in the OP, since people are just assuming I am wrecking my chairs, or a chair whore......
Edit: Finally pulled the trigger and went with the Secret Lab Omega Titan 2018: https://secretlab.co/products/titan
Edit: Review
Allright, let's make a review of the Secret Lab's TITAN chair, shall we?
Let's start off by mentioning the HUGE downside of this chair, it's cost. This chair costs $399, and to those of us who just buy an el' cheapo chair when ours runs into issues, this is a MAJOR hurdle to jump.
Once you get past the price, click that order button, and INSTANTLY get filled with regret like I did, there comes the wait for this chair to arrive. It only took about 4 days from the time I ordered until I got my chair, and when it did, my wife could barely move the package inside. I thought she was exaggerating when she mentioned how big it was, as people always tend to exaggerate about size, until I got home and tried to maneuver the thing myself. It was a heavy, solid box....
Once you open the box, I was surprised how much work Secret Labs already did for me. The seat and the arms were already screwed together, so all I really had to do was put the casters (wheels) on the base, sit the cylinder in the wheel base, mount the back of the seat to the bottom, then mount the bottom controls to the bottom of the seat. It was all VERY clear out of the box, which was great, because it came with no instruction packet.
After putting 90% of the chair together though, all manly like without directions, I just wanted to confirm that I was doing it right, so I looked EVERYWHERE for the directions. How could a $400 chair NOT come with directions??? Low and behold, the very first thing you take out of the box is a 2' by 3' or so THICC piece of heavy construction paper or cardboard that just says "Congratulations on buying this expensive chair", or something along those lines, which I scoffed at and threw to the side. Hey, guess what dummy? The directions were on the back of that, in CLEAR picture form with great descriptions. Luckily, I put several chairs together before, and I was already on the right track.
My wife did assist with the assembly, as this chair was HEAVY. Once the chair was complete, I sat my ass on it for the first time. It was a HUGE.... "meh".... The seat felt VERY firm, all but hard. The adjustable settings were all absolutely fantastic. You can move the arm rests into like 50+ different configurations, as you can adjust the height, slide them forward/backwards, and angle them outward or inward. They stay put VERY well, and the adjustment buttons are located in places where you shouldn't accidentally adjust them while flailing your arms at whatever bullshit just killed you on screen. You could recline the back to go flat and go into a full lay down as well. The pillow that straps to the headrest is a HUGE comfort, and the built in lumbar support is phenomenal.
Let's get back to that "meh" feeling seat, shall we? I heard this about several of the top gaming chairs, so I was kinda ready for it. "Chair is firm, but give it a few days of gaming and you will be surprised". Well, I got the chair Friday night and clocked in about 10-12 hours over a 3 day weekend, and I gotta say, "give it a few days of gaming and you will be surprised".
This thing now feels like a glove. I sit in this chair, and I instantly want to fall asleep. After getting all the adjustments where I want them, I sit in this thing, ass all the way back in the seat, body straight up, head resting on the pillow, feet propped up on some piece of shit purple kids chair that I threw under my desk without my daughter knowing, and I feel like I am getting a HUGE hug from this thing. Now, that's a $400 hug, and for $400 I would expect to get farther than halfway to first base with something, but my god this damn chair gets me.
Now, let's get to the looks and check out the picture below this paragraph. It's not a flashy, multicolored race car chair that I was originally going to purchase. It's a sleek, nice, all but plain looking black chair, with BEAUTIFUL red stitching. The branding is minimal in my opinion, and doesn't take away from just how clean this chair looks. For all intensive purposes, the chair doesn't immediately scream out "I am a $400 chair" just by looking at it, but boy can you feel it when you sit down in this thing (after slightly worn in for some).
https://secretlab.co/products/titan
Would I recommend this chair to a friend? Only if I knew this friend wasn't going to laugh at the price tag, OR I could get my friend to sit in it for about 10 minutes. Most of my friends are SUPER cheap when it comes to things like this, and I was too for the most part. $400 isn't small change, and it's an actual decision making process for me to spend that kind of money.
Would I recommend this to people online, reading reviews, who are already over the $400 price tag or in which money isn't really an option? Hell yes, in a heart beat. If this fits your budget, buy it. I am not going to knock any competitors in this review because I haven't purchased or used any of the other high end chairs, but I am much happier seeing this thing at my computer desk then I would have been seeing a multicolored race car seat there for sure.
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Thanks, I ordered one today. Ironically those 30-40 hour gaming sessions are also for PoE during launch.
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here is the chair im looking at getting boys
Looks similar to the Titan, just not as wide.
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higher quality
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here is the chair im looking at getting boys
Looks just like the Titan, I like it.
Also, wood, her, in the chair even, to test the "build quality".
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Bought my new gaming chair today
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That’s the same one the guy got in the game chair thread right?Bought my new gaming chair today
I’m gonna buy a new chair next week, when you have some time to use it report back how you like it so we can have more than one opinion on it.
Thanks!!
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Allright, let's make a review of the Secret Lab's TITAN chair, shall we?
Let's start off by mentioning the HUGE downside of this chair, it's cost. This chair costs $399, and to those of us who just buy an el' cheapo chair when ours runs into issues, this is a MAJOR hurdle to jump.
Once you get past the price, click that order button, and INSTANTLY get filled with regret like I did, there comes the wait for this chair to arrive. It only took about 4 days from the time I ordered until I got my chair, and when it did, my wife could barely move the package inside. I thought she was exaggerating when she mentioned how big it was, as people always tend to exaggerate about size, until I got home and tried to maneuver the thing myself. It was a heavy, solid box....
Once you open the box, I was surprised how much work Secret Labs already did for me. The seat and the arms were already screwed together, so all I really had to do was put the casters (wheels) on the base, sit the cylinder in the wheel base, mount the back of the seat to the bottom, then mount the bottom controls to the bottom of the seat. It was all VERY clear out of the box, which was great, because it came with no instruction packet.
After putting 90% of the chair together though, all manly like without directions, I just wanted to confirm that I was doing it right, so I looked EVERYWHERE for the directions. How could a $400 chair NOT come with directions??? Low and behold, the very first thing you take out of the box is a 2' by 3' or so THICC piece of heavy construction paper or cardboard that just says "Congratulations on buying this expensive chair", or something along those lines, which I scoffed at and threw to the side. Hey, guess what dummy? The directions were on the back of that, in CLEAR picture form with great descriptions. Luckily, I put several chairs together before, and I was already on the right track.
My wife did assist with the assembly, as this chair was HEAVY. Once the chair was complete, I sat my ass on it for the first time. It was a HUGE.... "meh".... The seat felt VERY firm, all but hard. The adjustable settings were all absolutely fantastic. You can move the arm rests into like 50+ different configurations, as you can adjust the height, slide them forward/backwards, and angle them outward or inward. They stay put VERY well, and the adjustment buttons are located in places where you shouldn't accidentally adjust them while flailing your arms at whatever bullshit just killed you on screen. You could recline the back to go flat and go into a full lay down as well. The pillow that straps to the headrest is a HUGE comfort, and the built in lumbar support is phenomenal.
Let's get back to that "meh" feeling seat, shall we? I heard this about several of the top gaming chairs, so I was kinda ready for it. "Chair is firm, but give it a few days of gaming and you will be surprised". Well, I got the chair Friday night and clocked in about 10-12 hours over a 3 day weekend, and I gotta say, "give it a few days of gaming and you will be surprised".
This thing now feels like a glove. I sit in this chair, and I instantly want to fall asleep. After getting all the adjustments where I want them, I sit in this thing, ass all the way back in the seat, body straight up, head resting on the pillow, feet propped up on some piece of shit purple kids chair that I threw under my desk without my daughter knowing, and I feel like I am getting a HUGE hug from this thing. Now, that's a $400 hug, and for $400 I would expect to get farther than halfway to first base with something, but my god this damn chair gets me.
Now, let's get to the looks and check out the picture below this paragraph. It's not a flashy, multicolored race car chair that I was originally going to purchase. It's a sleek, nice, all but plain looking black chair, with BEAUTIFUL red stitching. The branding is minimal in my opinion, and doesn't take away from just how clean this chair looks. For all intensive purposes, the chair doesn't immediately scream out "I am a $400 chair" just by looking at it, but boy can you feel it when you sit down in this thing (after slightly worn in for some).
https://secretlab.co/products/titan
Would I recommend this chair to a friend? Only if I knew this friend wasn't going to laugh at the price tag, OR I could get my friend to sit in it for about 10 minutes. Most of my friends are SUPER cheap when it comes to things like this, and I was too for the most part. $400 isn't small change, and it's an actual decision making process for me to spend that kind of money.
Would I recommend this to people online, reading reviews, who are already over the $400 price tag or in which money isn't really an option? Hell yes, in a heart beat. If this fits your budget, buy it. I am not going to knock any competitors in this review because I haven't purchased or used any of the other high end chairs, but I am much happier seeing this thing at my computer desk then I would have been seeing a multicolored race car seat there for sure.
I bought the omega based on this thread. Its the exact same as the titan but for shorties like me.
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Its the smaller version. His is the titan, for people that are big. Im only 5"7 so I got the Omega, for people who are small.
Ill report back once it arrives and I test it a few days
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Ok thanks, there were some comments I think that even the titan might be too small for some taller people.
I’m 6’1” I guess I need to find one locally somewhere to sit in.
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Yeah I think the titan is for people up to 6"6. If youre taller than that I dont know.
The one I got is for 160-180cm. Im 170 so it should be perfect
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I need one that will stand up to frequent lap dances.
That’s how the woman gets me off the computer when I’ve been on it too long LOL.
