Arozzi Torretta XL Gaming Chair - Does bigger always mean better?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,564 words · ~7 min read
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so Linus has covered gaming chairs before from Max nomic and DX racer you
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can see those reviews here but this time around we were approached by a Rosy a
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Swedish company that wanted us to check out their tetta XL you may have noticed
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at one point or another that I'm a fair bit larger than lonus and given that the
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tetta XL is and I quote one of the first
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chairs designed for people that need a larger and wider chair I thought I'd
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now to learn more let's start with the packaging and assembly experience there
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was some sort of Fairly thin foam around most the metal arms of the chair which
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seemed to do an okay job and the actual padded seat and back sections of the
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chair were protected by a very thin layer of bubble wrap not the most well
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protected shipment ever but it did show up without any noticeable damage so that
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was good the chair actually did take quite a while to build and comparison to
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the Max nomic and DX racer chairs and this was directly caused by poor
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manufacturing tolerances there were many times where I'd be trying to screw in a
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bolt but the hole cut in the fabric was not even remotely centered over the
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Threaded Screw hole this resulted in me having to cut away some of the fabric in
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order to be able to continue and even after fixing a large amount of these
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Cuts manually there were more issues the
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back didn't fit into the base of the chair that well at all and required me
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to crank the support arms quite hard in order to get them around the backing and
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not something you really want to see in a brand new product I might just be
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nitpicking now due to being frustrated by the previous manufacturing tolerance
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issues but the plastic covers on the arms on each side of the chair seemed
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subpar to me as well on the left hand side while looking at the chair from the
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front there's a tall plastic piece this piece is only secured by one screw and
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moves very easily if it gets caught on something not really a big deal but it
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just feels cheap and if I were to move this chair to the new office say I would
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legitimately worry about it snapping off in transit if it happened to get caught
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on something lastly you just need to slip the head pillow over the top and
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thread the clips of your height adjustable lumbar support cushion around
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the outside I personally don't care much for lumbar support cushions as they
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don't seem to be the right size and I prefer the car seep implementation where
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they're user adjustable normally I don't like head cushions either uh especially
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because I wear headphones and with multiple monitors when you look around
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they can kind of scratch into each other and it it presses against the cushion
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and doesn't make it feel very good or you can hear the scratching which goes
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into the cans and makes a fairly light loud noise it's just not not a great
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experience but that being said out of the three chairs we have I prefer the
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head cushion of the tetta XL as I personally like the material and my head
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doesn't feel like it's going to slip off to the side like it does with the other
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ones which is good because I also feel like the tretta XL needs the head
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cushion due to the very noticeable and not padded enough framing which runs
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around the outside of the chair some people may be able to fit in this chair
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without their head resting against the framing but I can't unfortunately for me
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that is not where the issues with the fr FR stop unlike the seat in my car which
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lightly curves around and comfortably holds me from the back the tra XL has
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large jut outs accurately defined by tan as Wings the jet outs make it feel like
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you're being restricted almost like you're in a cup or a bowl the Wings near
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your legs force you into a very straightforward position I often like to
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change positions while I'm sitting as I'll likely be doing so for quite some
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time and one of my favorite mainly consists of folding one leg under the
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other and having my knee kind of sit out to the side not really a possible thing
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in this chair the wings on the back of the chair are no more comfortable I have
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very wide shoulders and These Wings have the unfortunate property of curving my
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back and pulling my shoulders forward this feels very awkward and resulted in
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my natural position being leaning forward as leaning back was just not
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worth it a surprising result coming from a cheap crappy IKEA chair which I can
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lean back in just fine the fabric Pooler material was actually a big plus however
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if you're not looking for for leather both the maxnomic and DX racer chairs
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come with leather materials so having the aosi tetta XL have a different more
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breathable option is actually kind of cool the benefit of which is that if
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you're like me where I'm basically a humanoid space heater it won't actually
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kind of heat up as much which is quite refreshing unfortunately the this type
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of fabric does have a downside if you happen to be a sloppy eater or just
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playing not that great with managing potentially spraying liquids this fabric
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will absorb that liquid and it will stain just a heads up the various
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adjustments seem fine enough and it doesn't go up or down all that far but I
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doubt anyone would really need more in either direction much like other
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versions we've seen this chair has the potential to go way too far back I've
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been informed that some of you want this functionality I don't get it but it has
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it and it's by no means a bad thing so
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there you go the cushion is quite dense and lends itself like the rest of the
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chair to a very fixed position position if your shoulder span can fit within the
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wings this combination will likely help to keep you in good posture and the
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density of this foam is more similar to maxnomic than DX racer I personally
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prefer Max nomics overall implementation but that may be biased due to being able
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to comfortably flit in the chair as a whole which leads us to the conclusion
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this chair isn't directly comparable to the previous two as it is specifically
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designed as a larger chair for larger people my main gripe of this chair is
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that I prefer the two chairs that were designed for smaller people because I
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fit better not because I'm small but because I'm too big for the chair that
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was designed for big people and the other smaller chairs offer quite a bit
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more leeway in the size of their users with less aggressively curved Wings on
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the side I feel like I would have preferred one of aros's other chairs
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from their Monza or Enzo series as they seem to have less aggressive wings and
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don't have the issues of these giant barlik Wings on the side which hold you
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like a bowl and are just generally really uncomfortable all right let me
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know what you guys think over on the Forum do you want a chair that kind of
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holds you like a bowl was I too hard on it for that which chair out of the three
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that we've reviewed do you prefer again let me know on the Forum while you guys
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