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this video is brought to you by Squarespace the quick and easy way to build a kick-ass website what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I'm taking a look at the contents of this enormous box this is the noble chairs epic series real leather in black it's a gaming chair in case you couldn't tell and I'm really not an expert when it comes to gaming chairs I'm still sort of conflicted about the whole thing I do use one I have a Max Nam ik which I did review back on the channel a few maybe a year ago but honestly I love that chair it's been fantastic but it's really the only basis of comparison I have for reviewing this chair so I'm going to be making a lot of those comparisons today between those two model these two models this is supposed to be a better chair according to the manufacturer than something like the Max anomic because it features real genuine leather it's all sexy and stuff but I'm going to go ahead and test it out just to see what all the features entail and then we're gonna go a circle back and do a little conclusion to see exactly if this thing is worth the five or six hundred dollars that you might spend on it so on that note I'm going to crack this box over we're going to put it together and check this baby out all right here she is in all her glory or maybe it's a he I'm not sure but installation was super smooth and easy probably took me 2530 minutes max to get this thing all set up instructions over there we're super clear there's a really nice big pictures very descriptive and everything went really smoothly on the installation front didn't really run into any issues this thing was up and running in no time so that's good you can see I've got my max anomic here my daily driver just gonna put it right here for comparison we'll be doing a little left and righty occasionally throughout the rest of this review so I think the best way to do this right now is to start from the bottom we'll start from the bottom and then we'll go to the top and we'll work our way to all the other things that are going on up there I'm just going to sit on the floor right now hope that's cool with you guys so the first thing I want to point out is the base here it's full aluminum and it's kind of got a nice matte black powder-coated finish and it seems very sturdy build quality is top-notch here it does have five it's a five star design so you've got casters on the bottom of each of those wings and the casters are really really actually nice they they slide very easily whether you're on hardwood floor and I did test it out on the carpet as well slides very easily pretty much on par with the max notic sorry it's all like dirty and dusty ape I should have seen that before the video but you can see this has got more of a glossy finish on the five star base and I believe I can't remember if this is aluminum or metal it's one or the other but honestly they're pretty much on par they do look a bit different because of the gloss versus the powder coat I actually do like the powder coat a bit more I think it looks just looks a little bit more subdued I don't like gloss on pretty much anything and and yeah so just right up here you can see we've got two of these black levers alright there's one here and there's one here so this one I believe adjusts the rocking mechanism so if you enable that you can actually rock the chair back and forth like a rocking chair and you can also adjust the tension of that with this knob as well you can adjust the rocking tension whether you want it to Teeter very easily or have a bit more resistance to it and also if you don't like the rocking the rocking mechanism you can actually lock it into place if that's what you're into so that's nice and then over here you've got this one for height I believe it's already maxed out on the height but you can adjust the seat up or down however you like obviously I will have mine in the lowest position because I'm short you guys know that already and also we've got a little bit of an incline here this is a lever that we've got for the the backrest itself it's kind of like it works just like the the little arm seat or the backrest lever in a car for example and this is also all so far all the features that I've just talked about in terms of like scene adjustability are also found on the Mac's anomic including this lever here the lever is full metal it's got a plastic grip on it for so it's not going to like you know cut your hand or anything like that it is very sturdy and I would say build quality all around is pretty solid and then you've got the arm rests these are what they're calling 4 D or four-dimensional arm rests and they're pretty much exactly the same as the ones on the mexican ama clay are indistinguishable of each other but that's not a bad thing because I really I really do like these 4 D arm rests so what you can do is they've got there's levers everywhere so you can adjust up and down like that you've got this button here that adjusts how far forward or far back you'd like your armrests to be which is nice and you've got another button here that adjusts inward or outward positioning so depending on how wide your shoulders are apart and stuff like that you'll be comfortable and also the last one is that you can actually rotate these things just by turning them see he can rotate it inward so if you tend to bow out your elbows or maybe like that maybe that's how you gain who knows or you can just go straight of course so a lot of options with the arm rests moving on to the seat and the backrest itself in terms of quality we'll go over the build quality first super high quality I mean this thing is for much as good as it gets one of the best that I've seen actually I've only really only ever seen this one but the other stitching job for one here is just super good it's just a it's really clean there's no frame of any kind and it's just it's the same type of quality throughout the entire chair it looks phenomenal and you can see there's even some some diamond stitching which not only looks good but I guess it provides a bit of a bit of a it's a bit more breathable speaking of breathability underneath all of this leather inside the the seat itself as well as the backrest you'll find some open cell cold foam which is again very breathable so it stays more or less cool doesn't actually warm you up too much especially in like high summer periods also it's got a nice firmness to it and it's it's a bit more firm than the max anomic but that's also because I've been sitting in this chair for almost 12 months now so it has softened up I've definitely broken it in as I do sit in it every single day for long periods of time so I would imagine that this this would soften it up a little bit as well it's a bit firm for my liking but again I think after breaking it in it would be just perfect for from ash from a sweet cheeks now of course let's not ignore the genuine leather material that's being used on the backrest as well as on the seat itself because this is one of the biggest features that noble chairs is priding themselves with the their epic series lineup and what's what's the difference between imitation leather and genuine leather when it comes to a gaming chair well I'm glad you asked first thing is what I would say is like look and feel right you can kind of tell actually if you look from side to side at the max Nama Kover there and the epic series that I don't know it just looks a little bit more cheap on the maximum it's a bit more glossy maybe that's my back sweat dude but you definitely can't tell especially when you feel the leather with your with your with your soft caress however my back and my butt can't really tell the difference when sitting in the chair itself so the genuine leather I will say does not make the chair any more comfortable that's more so dependent on the back and butt support as well like the cold the open-cell cold foam and stuff like that however there are certain other benefits to genuine leather other than the look and feel which include durability so for one it's more resistant to UV stuff UV as well as moisture so if you guys tend to sweat a lot during like long gaming sessions or whatever other sessions you might be engaged in then perhaps genuine leather is the way to go over the imitation stuff now to be fair to really test out the durability between these two types of leather I would have to sit in each one an equal amount of time for a prolonged period of time not just a few hours but several months perhaps to see how they each hold up and fortunately I've only ever said in the max anomic for that period of time and I will say in its defense it's held up quite nicely even though it does have imitation leather there's really very minimal signs of wear and tear if if any at all I mean other than maybe getting stretched a little bit here you you there is a bit of stuff here do you see those little little markings that's not actually wear and tear those are my theme cats I hate those little girls but truth be told the pleather here on the max anomic has actually held up pretty well and I'm super happy with it so it would be interesting to sit in the epic series chair for a year or so and do a bit of a comparison but maybe maybe I'll circle back in a year from now who knows now perhaps the biggest question that we need to answer today in this sort of comparison review is which one of these chairs is more comfortable to sit in and that that's actually important because even if you have a ton of features like both of these chairs do if the chair is not comfortable for any period of time then it's kind of like all those other features don't really matter do they do they so if I would have to give my honest opinion here and wifey sauce actually agrees with me on this is that the max notic in both of our opinions is the more comfortable chair not so much for the but I mean the but on both of these is quite comfortable granted the max comics a bit more broken in but the problem with the epic series chair lies in the back support I think because if you look at this it's pretty flat so unless you have a really flat back that's not going to work out for you I actually have a pretty sizable arch in my back so I need good lumbar support and the great thing about the Max Nam ik you can already see it's like bulging out a bit it's got this knob I don't know if you guys remember this knob from my review on this chair but it's a justa belong bar support so if you turn it you can start to see it bulging out a little bit it's very subtle might be hard to see on camera but it actually bulges out you know and forms to your back and you can crank it however you want it's completely adjustable there's no option there's no such option for like that on the epic series chair which is kind of a disappointment instead to remedy that the loss of any adjustable back support they have included this pillow that's your that's your lower lumbar support which I don't know for a five or six hundred dollar chair I would expect a little bit more here and the problem with this pillow is that unless your back is exactly the dimensions with the same arch and stuff it's not going to feel right and when I when I had whyphy saw sit in this chair for the first time she said you know what I thought she would it's too flat the back is too flat so I tried having her sit in it again with the pillow and then she said well it's too poufy now and it was actually sticking out so far for her that her upper back wasn't able to touch the backrest properly so it's just you know it needs to be a bit more adjustable than that the head pillow is great though Gigi for a critique here probably the biggest critique out of this whole review is noble chairs if you're listening keep everything else the same this chair is freaking awesome the build quality is top-notch it really is a top-class chair the one thing I would add is adjustable lower lumbar support and that is the biggest difference between the max NAM ik and the epic series here today and I would say it's it's pretty damn important but yeah let me know what you guys think about it I'm very cute to hear your thoughts and I really do need a cameraman let me know what you think of the chair and what you think about genuine leather is that's something that you look for when shopping for a gaming chair or does it really not matter to you much I'm very curious to know also I will say thank you to today's sponsor because they are awesome Squarespace apart from being really awesome guys to work with and collab with and and sponsor stuff with they also have an amazing service where you can develop websites very easily on the cheap so I actually have my entire website bit with com store as well as the main the bane page all developed through Squarespace and I have jack-shit for web design experience guys I think the most experience I have with web 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