In a Nutshell:

The Secretlab Titan Prime is a sleek, modern, edgy looking gaming chair. A great option if you like the aesthetic. Recommended for anyone who spends several hours a day in their chair, provided you’re a fan of the aesthetic.

Value for the Money
Comfort
Brand Reliability*
Aesthetic Flexibility**

Overall Rating

3.9/5
* Brand Reliability is a measure of the strength and longevity of the brand, which by extension, is a measure of the level of support you can expect. ** While aesthetics is a matter of taste, Aesthetic Flexibility is a measure of how easily a given design would fit into a wide range of home or office décor schemes.

Benefits

  • Good production quality
  • Lots of adjustability
  • Well-implemented ergonomic features
  • Delightfully comfortable
  • Well-suited for heavy daily use

Drawbacks

  • In-your-face logo work
  • Secretlab is relatively unknown
Secretlab TITAN 2020 Series Gaming Chair
3.9

Recommended For: Anyone who spends several hours a day in their chair, provided you’re a fan of the aesthetic.

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Does your current office chair leave a lot to be desired? Do you find yourself stiff and sore after spending several hours at a stretch sitting in it? Are you looking for an alternative that emphasizes comfort? You’ll be very interested in this review if you answered yes to any of those questions!

Haven’t you heard of Secretlab? We’d be surprised if you had. The company doesn’t have a lot of brand heft, and they’re not especially well-known, but by the time you finish reading this review, we think you’ll agree that they certainly know their way around the office furniture market!

Note that the Secretlab Titan Prime is a gaming chair. That’s significant because if there’s one thing that’s true about gamers, they tend to spend a lot of time playing their favorite titles, which invariably sees them spending a lot of time in their chairs. This chair, the Titan, was designed specifically to accommodate them.

We’ll be quick to say that it’s not a perfect model, and it does have a few shortcomings that you need to be aware of. We’ll cover all that in the sections below, so you’ve got all the information you need to decide if this is the model you’ve been looking for. If that sounds good to you, let’s get right to it!

Key Features of the Secretlab Titan Prime Gaming Chair

When you first lay eyes on the Secretlab Titan Prime Gaming Chair, you’re likely to think that it looks like it belongs in a race car. It has a racing-style seat and prominent logos on display. While some people are put off by the racing style design, most aren’t, and in truth, it blends in pretty well with most home décor schemes, or at least it would, but for one thing–those logos, they’re in your face.

We get it. We understand that the chair was designed for games, and the logos don’t factor into the equation in a major way for that crowd. However, if you’re not a gamer looking at this chair to use professionally, the in-your-face logos might be a knock against this model

In our view, it doesn’t detract horribly from the overall design, but it does make it a bit harder for the Titan Prime to blend seamlessly into a wide range of home décor schemes. It’s certainly not a fatal blow, but as one of the first things you’ll notice about the chair, it’s worth mentioning.

Chair Specifications

Let’s closely examine the model, assuming it does not disappoint you. Specifically, the core stats that define it. Here are the basics:

  • Chair Dimensions: 33.5” x 14.5” x 28”
  • Chair Weight: 77 pounds
  • Maximum Supported Weight: 300 pounds
  • Seat Height Adjustment Range: 19.5” to 23”
  • Seat Depth: 21”
  • Seat Width: 22”

There are a couple of things to note about these stats. First, you’ll probably be surprised by how heavy this chair is. While many office chairs are built with polyurethane bases, the Titan uses an aluminum base. Granted, it’s not as durable as some office chairs, like Flash Furniture’s impressive Hercules series, but it’s a nice touch that adds heft to the chair and makes it feel more substantial when sitting in it.

Front Image View of Secretlab Titan Prime PU Leather Gaming Chair

You’ll also note that the height adjustment range marks this as a chair best suited for bigger and taller folk. Typically, the big and tall height adjustment range is 18” to 22,” and this not only starts above that line but extends a bit beyond it, making this chair a good choice for people up to about 6’9”.

Unfortunately, the weight limit doesn’t fit that market segment well. Three hundred pounds is decent but far from great. You can find plenty of big and tall chairs with weight limits of 400 or even 500 pounds or more, so in that regard, the Titan is a bit underwhelming. Even so, it should serve most of the market well enough.

Upholstery

Most gaming chairs today have few options, so the Titan is a pleasant surprise. You can select from three upholstery options when you place your order: Fabric, PU, or Napa Leather.

We feel that the fabric option is the best overall, providing a good mix of breathability and durability. But if you love leather upholstered chairs, then the Napa leather option is hands down the one you want.

We don’t recommend the PU leather option. Although it is the least expensive option, it tends to start showing its age rather quickly, even if you’re careful with it, and it doesn’t stand up well to the rigors of heavy daily use. In our view, upholstering a chair of this quality with PU is a tragedy.

Customization

On top of that, when you place your order, you can select from one of a modest selection of custom logos if you don’t want the default Secretlab/Titan logo. Some of your options include:

  • Batman
  • House Stark
  • House Targaryen
  • House Lannister
  • Deadmau5
  • LCS
  • Cloud9
  • “Team Secret”

Color-wise, you can choose from:

  • Black
  • Stealth
  • Amber
  • Classic
  • Ash

Honestly, we were blown away by the options available on this chair. Kudos to Secretlab for going the extra mile on that front!

This section of our Secretlab Titan Prime review covers more. We’ll start with comfort and then discuss this model’s various adjustment features.

Comfortable Seat

The seat has a waterfall-edge design that helps improve leg circulation, an important detail for people who plan on spending several hours a day in it. The chair is also generously padded with cold-cured block foam, slightly superior to conventional block foam because it keeps its shape better in the longer term and helps distribute weight more evenly.

That, combined with the overall racing-style design, makes you feel cocooned in comfort while sitting in the chair. We would love to see Secretlab incorporate memory foam into the design, but that would add significantly to the price of the chair, so we understand why they refrained from doing so. 

You can find comparable features in our collection of office chairs for chronic leg pain.

Headrest Pillow

The only place you’ll find memory foam is in the bonus headrest pillow that comes with it. That’s a nice touch, of course, and the fact that it offers any extras at all is a point in the model’s favor, but yes – in a perfect world, we’d love to see this handsome chair padded with memory foam everywhere!

Right Side Image View of Secretlab Titan Prime PU Leather Gaming Chair

Adjustability

This is another area where Secretlab excels. While few adjustable features are on offer, the company hits all the high spots and does a great job implementing them.

The Secretlab Titan PU Leather Gaming Chair reclines to a maximum angle of 150 degrees, which is fantastic. However, we wish a pull-out footrest was mounted on the bottom or the chair came with an ottoman. 

It’s easy enough to engineer one if you’d like to prop your feet up, but we regard some footrests as a missed opportunity.

Left Back Side Image View of Secretlab Titan Prime PU Leather Gaming Chair

Lumbar Support

The chair also features a very well-implemented lumbar support system, and it, too, is adjustable, which allows you to get exactly the lower back support you need, exactly where you need it. While many gaming chairs feature lumbar support, most are stationary, limiting their value because every body shape is unique. Lacking the ability to fine-tune the amount of support you get and its position is a limitation. Fortunately, it’s not a limitation you’ll have to worry about with this model!

Armrests

Not only are the armrests well-padded and comfortable, making them well-suited for use over extended periods, but they’re also both height and sideways adjustable, allowing you to customize them to fit your body perfectly.

Many people don’t fully appreciate the value of highly adjustable armrests, but once you’ve sat in a chair that gives you the option, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them.

Casters

Finally, although this isn’t an adjustable feature, it’s worth mentioning that the Titan features oversized casters that work as well on thick carpeting as they do on hardwoods and other flat, smooth flooring surfaces. Although Secretlab isn’t especially well known at the moment, this kind of attention to detail will make them a force to be reckoned with.

Does Not Come Assembled

Very few pieces of office furniture being sold today come pre-assembled, so it will probably come as no surprise that when this one arrives at your door, it will come in a large box and several pieces. Here, we wish to give Secretlab high marks, but their assembly instructions leave much to be desired.

Recliner Position of Secretlab Titan Prime PU Leather Gaming Chair

They’re not the worst we’ve ever seen, but they’re near the bottom. That’s a pity because the production quality is fairly high, as you can read in our Secretlab gaming chair reviews, and all the pieces fit together well. Had the company drafted clear, concise instructions, this chair would have come together fairly quickly despite its impressive size.

As it stands, you’ll find yourself with a few head-scratching moments, and there are a couple of points during the assembly process that will be generally tough if you’re trying to put the chair together on your own.

Going solo, expect the process to take the better part of an hour from start to finish, and if you enlist the aid of a trusty assistant, you’ll have it wrapped up in thirty minutes or so. Sadly, the company could easily address this at a nominal cost to themselves. We were a little disappointed because it detracts a bit from what is generally a pretty solid design. It’s not a deal breaker but an easily avoided issue. We wish the company had taken the time to do so.

Pros and Cons of Secretlab Titan Prime

We love the Secretlab Titan Prime PU Leather Stealth Gaming chair on balance! Sure, it’s got a few shortcomings, the biggest being the in-your-face logo work that might be off-putting to some and the fact that Secretlab doesn’t have a huge amount of brand heft and is relatively unknown.

Neither of those are deal breakers, and if you’re not particularly brand conscious, the latter point won’t give you any pause at all.

Set against these things are the facts that the chair offers:

  • Good production quality
  • Lots of adjustability
  • And two well-implemented ergonomic features in the form of its seat design and its excellent lumbar support

It’s a delightfully comfortable chair, and as long as you don’t order it with PU upholstery, well-suited to the rigors of heavy daily use.

Secretlab Titan Prime Review Conclusion

People either like racing-style chairs or they don’t. If you’re not a fan and the highly visible logo work bothers you, you won’t seriously consider this chair, no matter what other features it might offer.

If you like the styling and don’t mind the logos, you’ll find that the Secretlab Titan Prime is easily on par with, and in some ways, superior to, most of the office furniture on the market today. If the company had the same brand recognition as the heavy hitters in the office furniture market, this chair would be at or near the top of every roundup review.

It’s clear that Secretlab knows and understands the furniture market, and we can’t wait to see how it grows as a company and brand in the years ahead. We recommend the Titan. It’s a great, well-designed chair.

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