Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition review

pcgamer.com:

I'm going to be honest, when Secretlab got in touch to say it was shipping me a brand new gaming chair with the subject line «the new Secretlab chair you've been waiting for...» I was expecting something more than another Titan Evo. That's not to denigrate the classic Secretlab chair—there's a reason that it still sits uncontested atop our best gaming chair list—but that in itself was a reworked version amalgamating two of its predecessors.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's a maxim more PC gaming brands could do with having tattooed on the inside of their eyelids when so many will change for change's sake to hit some artificial, iterative release cadence. And yet, and yet, change is vital to avoid stagnation, especially if you've become comfortable on the summit of your industry.

I can quickly point to Intel with CPUs, and Corsair with mechanical gaming keyboards, and if Secretlab wants to avoid falling behind its own competition then it needs to keep on innovating.

And, for me, I thought that meant producing something that maybe didn't look exactly the same as every Secretlab chair produced in the past five years or so. Maybe something so ergonomically ahead of the curve that all those copycat chairs hoping to catch people out on Amazon by looking almost identical to a Titan Evo would have to go back to the photocopier and get some new designs out to their mass production facilities.

Sizes: R (170–189 cm / <100kg), XL (181–205 cm / 80–180kg)
Fabric: NanoGen Hybrid Leatherette
Recline: up to 165°
Warranty: 3-year (extendable to 5-year via social endorsement)
Armrests: 4D adjustment
Price: $799 | £669 (Regular) $849 | £719 (XL)

I didn't have «paradoxical breakthrough» with «next-generation materials» combining «benefits previously thought impossible in the same material» on my Secretlab 2024 bingo card. I'll give you that sounds like peak marketing hyperbole, but if you're going to have a go at improving a classic gaming chair design you could do a lot worse