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how does one even begin to review a chair I mean computer stuff don't problem for us we've got a review of Silverstone's awesome looking at 205 case coming soon make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that but a chair well I guess today's video is just going to be a little different than isn't it coolermaster neptune series CPU coolers are available in a variety of radiator sizes to perfectly suit your next build click now to learn more we'll start with the shopping experience color selection was easy all their chairs look pretty freakin awesome actually I went with an orange and black color scheme very similar to the Linus tech tips one model selection though was where things got a little bit tougher they have dxracer chairs listed on the need for seat site but the model names don't correspond to the ones on dxracer zone website in any meaningful way and when I contacted dxracer about the naming and visual similarities between the products they denied any affiliation so I settled on need for seats on max Nanak line which based on the teardown on their site versus copycat chairs looks pretty freaking awesome you should check out the teardown by the way if you get a chance I didn't want to cut up my chair because I plan on using it for years to come but if their point is the difference in materials and construction that you get for an extra hundred dollars versus a lookalike is worth it then it comes across very well the unboxing and assembly process only took about half an hour even though I did it myself and the manual suggests getting a helper speaking of which the manual is full color and I was really pleased with it until I got to the part where it broke the news to me that this is not in fact a sex chair I tried pretty hard not to hold that against the chair when I was doing my sitting benchmarks but no promises on to the evaluation of the chair I'll start with my past experience I've got a hundred ish dollar IKEA chair that I use at the office everyday a 200 ish dollar leather Costco chair that I use at home everyday and now I have a 300 plus dollar chair so the angle I'll be tackling this from is what do you get in terms of extra features and comfort as you spend more money HIDA just is pretty standard these days and the gas lift on the max Nanak only moves about three inches I found that even when it's bottomed out you don't get that rock-hard feeling as you plunked down into it so it's got a wider usable range than my other chairs where I have to leave a bit of an air cushion at the bottom at all times I did find the lever a bit tough to reach compared to the other designs though and on that note this seems like a good time to check out the other leaders that are down here the one on the left is Aileen Locke but I left this off because there's a knob on the bottom that you can turn to adjust the tension of the lien so I set it up so that it was basically impossible for me to lean the chair accidentally but easy to do it on purpose with my feet up under my desk the way I sometimes like to sit when I'm writing the last leader is back over on the right and controls the recline feature it's a little disconcerting at first being able to lean so far back in a chair but even with the stock base they have a heavier duty one I didn't feel like there was any risk of me falling over it's got like 12 steps four of which at the beginning are completely unusable see wait really and then combined with the included head pillow I'd say it's legitimately comfortable enough to sleep in if you're into that and you're alone which leads us to overall comfort I usually don't do eight hour marathon sits but even since I've gotten it I've had a couple days where I've been sitting for three plus hours at a time and that's where I often run into trouble with my buns falling asleep in my other chairs because when I've gone shopping for chairs in the past I looked for soft cushioning and the problem with the chairs i buy is that after half an hour to an hour you're basically sitting on the plywood inner material because the cushion is so easy to push through while the Dominator doesn't feel like sitting on a cloud or anything the cushioning is so thick and has enough strength to it that even though it's not goose down I can't get through it to the inner structure so there's always some padding which allowed my buns to stay awake much better and I also found that sitting on something that's comfortable but not soft made my sitting position naturally better somehow I mean I'm still not Percy perfect posture by any stretch but small improvements can add up to a lot when you step a long time in your chair I didn't find their lumbar support pillow that useful because it moved around a fair bit when I got up and sat back down on the chair but the chair is plenty comfortable without it anyway and I did find the headrest one was a little bit more useful on to the arm rests they're kind of Awesome actually they have a ton of adjustments they can go up and down they can go I can find all these buttons in real time here they can go side to side whatever will do this in b-roll they can go side to side they can be angled in and out and they can go forward and back it's a feature I normally don't find myself using much these adjustments you just kind of set it and forget it but with how quick it is to adjust particularly the height I actually found myself raising my mouse arm so I'd have a nice flat again cushioned but not overly comfortable platform to rest my elbow on then tucking them down and moving my chair in whenever I needed to do some serious typing again little ergonomic improvements that helped over time speaking of time I guess its conclusion time the worst thing about this chair has got to be the shopping experience need for seat needs to add a comparison tool or a shopping helper wizard to their site because for most people the differences in features will not be the main deciding factor and getting the size and weight suggestions right will be more important they're less expensive casual sport model may have actually been a better fit for me but I didn't realize that until after this one had already arrived in spite of it being a little bit big for me though it's very comfortable and even though it uses fake leather rather than natural leather the inside materials make up for this in my mind and I'll be using this chair as my new daily driver at work but the real test of course will be what we go with when it's time to equip everyone in the office with better chairs so stay tuned because we want to try out some other options and once we've made a decision we will definitely update you guys with another final video speaking of updating you guys with another video fractal design is doing a giveaway and you can watch this video for the full details or you can just keep watching right now to find out what's up either way is fine I guess it doesn't matter the giveaway is 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