Sihoo Doro S300 Chair Review

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VR might occasionally push you to stand up, and even occasionally flail your arms about, but generally speaking, gaming is done while seated. The sedentary gamer can often sink into a sofa for hours upon end, but your hip, back and neck aren’t going to thank you for it twenty years later. What you need is a chair, but in gaming circles, not just any chair will do. While there’s plenty of options out there, with faux leather and logos emblazoned across them, these are the Ford Focus’ of the gaming sphere, when what you’re really looking for is a Tesla. The Sihoo Doro S300 is a thoroughly modern take on the gaming/office chair, and it’s also the most comfortable one I’ve ever tested.

The Sihoo Doro S300 looks like it’s come from a spaceship or, as several visitors have noted, a dentist’s surgery. Our white and chrome review unit certainly looks futuristic, but there’s also a clinical tone to the sweeping aluminium lines of the central spine and the armrests. The chair itself is fashioned from separate pieces of Italian velvet mesh, stretched across glass fibre frames, with a central base unit, two lumbar pads – one for either side of your back – and a topmost shoulder/headrest.

As with all gaming and office chairs, the S300 arrived as a series of separate components which you need to put together yourself. Unlike some previous builds – I’m looking particularly at the Secretlab lineup – this is a chair you can put together on your own, but an extra pair of hands could be useful as the main unit is relatively heavy thanks to its prevalent use of actual metal.

All of the tools and screws you need are included, and the instructions were clear enough that I didn’t have to puzzle over them for very long at all. All in all, it took less than half an hour from opening the box to having a fully built chair in front of me.

While the chair immediately screams quality, that is something that’s reflected in the price, commanding a hefty £800 pricetag – though there’s currently a