Need For Seat Maxnomic Dominator Gaming & Office Chair
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,671 words · ~8 min read
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how does one even begin to review a chair I mean computer stuff no problem
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I guess today's video is just going to be a little different then isn't
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next build click now to learn more we'll
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start with the shopping experience color selection was easy all their chairs look
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pretty freaking awesome actually and I went with an orange and black color
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scheme very similar to the Linus techtips one model selection though was
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where things got a little bit tougher they have DX racer chairs listed on the
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need for seat site but the model names don't correspond to the ones on DX
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Racer's own website in any meaningful way and when I contacted DX racer about
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the naming and visual similarities between the products they denied any
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affiliation so I settled on Need for seat's own max nomic line which based on
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the tear down on their site versus copycat chairs looks pretty freaking
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awesome you should check out the tear down by the way if you get a chance I
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didn't want to cut up my chair because I plan on using it for years to come but
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if their point is the difference in materials and construction that you get
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for an extra $100 versus a lookalike is worth it then it comes across very well
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the unboxing and assembly process only took about a half an hour even though I
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did it myself and the manual suggests getting a helper speaking of which the
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manual is full color and I was really pleased with it until I got to the part
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where it broke the news to me that this is not in fact a sex chair I tried
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pretty hard not to hold that against the chair when I was doing my sitting
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benchmarks but no promises onto the
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evaluation of the chair I'll start with my past experience I've got a 100ish
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doll IKEA chair that I use at the office every day a $2 200ish leather Costco
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chair that I use at home every day and now I have a$ 300 plus doll chair so the
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angle I'll be tackling this from is what do you get in terms of extra features
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and comfort as you spend more money
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height adjust is pretty standard these days and while the gas lift on the max
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nomic only moves about 3 in I found that
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even when it's bottomed out you don't get that rock hard feeling as you plunk
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down into it so it's got a wider usable range than my other chairs where I have
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to leave a bit of an air cushion at the bottom at all times I did find the lever
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a bit tough to reach compared to the other designs though and on that note
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this seems like a good time to check out the other levers that are down here the
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one on the left is a lean lock but I left this off because there's a knob on
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the bottom that you can turn to adjust the tension of the lean so I set it up
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so that it was basically impossible for me to lean the chair accidentally but
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easy to do it on purpose with my feet up under my desk the way I sometimes like
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to sit when I'm writing the last lever is back over on the right and controls
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the recline feature it's a little disconcerting at first being able to
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lean so far back in a chair but even with the stock base they have a heavier
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Duty one I didn't feel like there was any risk of me falling over it's got
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like 12 steps four of which at the beginning are completely unusable see
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like really and then combined with the included head pillow I'd say it's
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legitimately comfortable enough to sleep in if you're into that and you're alone
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which leads us to overall Comfort I usually don't do 8 hour Marathon sits
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but even since I've gotten it I've had a couple days where I've been sitting for
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3 plus hours at a time and that's where I often run into trouble with my buns
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falling asleep in my other chairs because when I've gone shopping for
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chairs in the past I've looked for soft cushioning and the problem with the
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chairs I buy is that after half an hour to an hour you're basically sitting on
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the plywood inner material because the cushion is so easy to push through while
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the Dominator doesn't feel like sitting on a cloud or anything the cushion is so
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thick and has enough strength to it that even though it's not goose down I can't
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get through it to the inner structure so there's always some padding which
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allowed my buns to stay awake much better and I also found that sitting on
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something that's comfortable but not soft made my sitting position naturally
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better somehow I mean I'm still not Percy perfect posture by any stretch but
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small improvements can add up to a lot when you spend a long time in your chair
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I didn't find their Lumber bar support pillow that useful because it moved
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around a fair bit when I got up and sat back down on the chair but the chair is
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plenty comfortable without it anyway and I did find the headrest one was a little
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bit more useful onto the armrests they're kind of awesome actually they
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have a ton of adjustments they can go up and down they can go if I can find all
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these buttons in real time here they can go side to side whatever we'll do this
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in b roll they can go side to side they can be angled in and out and they can go
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forward and back it's a feature I normally don't find myself using much
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these adjustments you just kind of set it and forget it but with how quick it
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is to adjust particularly the height I actually found myself raising my mouse
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ARM so I'd have a nice flat again cushioned but not overly comfortable
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platform to rest my elbow on then tucking them down and moving my chair in
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whenever I needed to do some serious typing again little ergonomic
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improvements that help over time speaking of time I guess it's conclusion
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time the worst thing about this chair has got to be the shopping experience
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need for seat needs to add a comparison tool or a shopping helper wizard to
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their site because for most people the differences in features will not be the
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main deciding factor and getting the size and weight suggestions right will
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be more important their less expensive casual sport model may have actually
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been a better fit for me but I didn't realize that until after this one had
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already arrived in spite of it being a little bit big for me though it's very
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comfortable and even though it uses fake leather rather other than natural
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leather the inside materials make up for this in my mind and I'll be using this
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chair as my new daily driver at work but the real test of course will be what we
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go with when it's time to equip everyone in the office with better chairs so stay
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