FOR MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

PLAY LONGER. SIT BETTER.

Traditional stools weren't built for a full set, a long rehearsal, or a residency gig. The Stealth Performer gives seated players a real backrest, real adjustability, and real support — without getting in the way of your instrument.

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Performer Series Studio Stool With Backrest - Stealth Chairs

THE STOOL PROBLEM

Seated performers — keyboardists, guitarists, vocalists on in-ear monitors — are stuck choosing between a backless stool with no support and an office chair with armrests that get in the way of the instrument.

The Stealth Performer was built as a third option: a saddle seat and chair glides for freedom of movement, a proper backrest for the long set or the long residency, and no armrests to fight with your playing position.

Same ZenWave technology as the rest of the lineup — built into a stage-ready stool.

Built for the stage

One platform.
Five models.

Every Stealth Chair starts from the same battle-tested platform — including the Performer, our stage-ready stool. Choosing the right one comes down to two simple questions.

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Step 1

How tall are you?

Height is the only thing that decides Standard vs Pro. There's no weight limit — every Stealth Chair is built tough.

Step 2

Which backrest?

“Executive” changes only the backrest — a larger one. Everything else stays the same. If you want to lounge, go with the Executive.

The Performer

Playing, not mixing? The Performer is our stage build — two piston heights, footring and chair glides, no arms.

Standard series

Stealth Standard

Recommended for engineers & players 6′0″ and under.

$599

Lumbar backrest
Standard seat
Standard Casters
4D Removable Arms
Adjustable Footring
2 Included Piston Heights

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Standard series

Stealth Standard Executive

Recommended for engineers & players 6′0″ and under.

$649

Executive (Large) Backrest
Standard seat
Standard Casters
4D Removable Arms
Adjustable Footring
2 Included Piston Heights

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Pro series

Stealth Pro

Recommended for engineers & players 6′0″ and taller.

$749

Lumbar Backrest
Pro (Large) Seat
Standard Casters and 4" TourMax Casters Included
4D Removable Arms
Adjustable Footring
2 Included Piston Heights

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Pro series

Stealth Pro Executive

Recommended for engineers & players 6′0″ and taller.

$799

Executive (Large) Backrest
Pro (Large) Seat
Standard Casters and 4" TourMax Casters Included
4D Removable Arms
Adjustable Footring
2 Included Piston Heights

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Performer

Stealth Performer

Recommended for guitarists, keyboardists & vocalists.

$699

Lumbar Backrest
Saddle Seat
Chair glides
Standard Casters
Adjustable Footring
2 Included Piston Heights
No armrests

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Every chair, your height

Every Stealth Chair includes two pistons: a Studio / Desk height and a taller Touring / Standing-desk height. When assembling, pick the one that meets your needs.

Pro chairs - Pro Wheels

Every Pro and Pro Executive ships with two sets of wheels — standard casters and our larger 4″ TourMax casters. You decide which to roll on.

Arms come off in seconds

Toolless removal means you get to pull them off when you need clearance and drop them back in when you don't.

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The Lab

Your instrument already
decided your posture.

The kit, the pedalboard, the neck of the thing you are holding — they dictate where your body goes. The chair should not be arguing with both of you. Three questions.

Playing position. What does your instrument make you do?

What’s actually happening

This is the position conventional seating is worst at. Mandal's point is anatomical: chairs assume around 90 degrees of hip flexion and most people have nearer 60, so the shortfall comes out of the lumbar spine and your lower back rounds. Lean further and the backrest stops touching you, leaving those muscles to hold your torso unaided. Soderberg's EMG work found that tilting the seat forward significantly reduced exactly that muscle activity.

What’s actually happening

Upright is only half of it. Arms held forward and unsupported load the shoulder girdle continuously, and on a flat pan your pelvis is still rolling back underneath you — the hip-angle shortfall Mandal described does not care how straight your back looks.

What’s actually happening

Perching opens the hip angle, which is the constraint Mandal identified — you stop borrowing movement from your lumbar spine because you are no longer asking the hip for more than it has. The catch is real and measured: Hamaoui found sloped seating raised thigh and calf muscle activity by 1.5 to 2.5 times. That is an argument for a footring, not against perching. Give the legs something to brace on and the load has somewhere to go.

Rough dimensions. How much chair do you need?

What’s actually happening

Standard seat, 18.5 by 16.75 inches. A pan wider or deeper than your frame is not more generous, it is less supportive: the seat should end before your thigh does, or the front edge stops carrying you and starts pressing into the back of your leg.

What’s actually happening

Pro seat, 20.25 by 19.5 inches, with more cylinder travel. Both models are rated to 350lb — the difference is footprint, not strength. Too small a pan concentrates your weight into less tissue area, which is where numbness starts on a long day.

Where are you playing?

What’s actually happening

Stage Glide Casters, most likely — non-marking and broadcast-quiet, giving controlled roll rather than free roll, which is what you want when a chair moving during a quiet passage is a noise problem before it is a safety one. Every set includes a locking caster. Full glides stop movement entirely, but most players would rather keep the ability to reposition and lock it off.

What’s actually happening

Duration changes which variable matters. Wilke's work points at movement rather than posture as the thing that keeps a disc supplied, so the useful property over a long session is being able to shift constantly without ever leaving support — not finding one correct angle and freezing in it.

What’s actually happening

Then weight rating and serviceability beat any comfort feature. Every part is stocked, so what breaks in transit is a part rather than a purchase.

Your chair

Your match

Stealth Standard

The core chair. Patented forward-lean motion and a Free-Float backrest that stays in contact as you move, sized for a frame under 6ft and 200lb.

Seat 18.5" × 16.75" · rated to 350 lbs · 5-year warranty

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Stealth Pro

Same mechanism, larger footprint, more cylinder travel. For a taller or heavier frame, a shared chair, or a day long enough that adjustment range matters more than anything else.

Seat 20.25" × 19.5" · rated to 350 lbs · 5-year warranty

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Performer stool

Perch height with a backrest and a footring — which matters, because the research on sloped seating found it shifts load onto the legs unless they have somewhere to brace. Runs on the same caster options as the chairs, including the 4-inch TourMax wheels.

Perch height · footring · TourMax, stage glide or standard casters · 5-year warranty

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What the research says

Twenty people typing for fifteen minutes per posture. With the seat inclined forward, electrical activity in the back muscles was significantly lower than on a flat seat. This is the closest thing to a direct measurement of what a forward-tilted seat does to the load on your back. Soderberg, Blanco, Cosentino & Kurdelmeier (1986). An EMG Analysis of Posterior Trunk Musculature during Flat and Anteriorly Inclined Sitting. Human Factors 28(4), 483–491.
Conventional seating is built assuming you can bend about 90 degrees at the hip. Most people have closer to 60. The missing thirty degrees get taken out of the lumbar spine instead, which is why a flat seat rounds your lower back whether or not you are paying attention to it. Mandal (1981). The seated man (Homo Sedens): the seated work position. Applied Ergonomics 12(1), 19–26.
A sloping chair produced less trunk flexion, and a sloping work surface less neck flexion, than conventional furniture. Worth reading honestly: the author described the differences as small. Bridger (1988). Postural Adaptations to a Sloping Chair and Work Surface. Human Factors 30(2).
The study that disagrees with us, included because you should have it. A 15 degree sloping seat produced no significant improvement in head, trunk or pelvic position, and raised thigh and calf muscle activity by 1.5 to 2.5 times. Two things are worth holding alongside it. Lumbar back-muscle activity still fell, which is the same direction Soderberg measured, so the finding the chair rests on survives its own counter-evidence. And the rig was a bare sloped seat — twelve young men, a reading task, no backrest, nothing under the feet. A slope with nowhere to brace pushes load into the legs, which is exactly what this study measured and exactly what a footring and a backrest that stays in contact are for. Read straight, it says tilt alone is not the answer. We agree; that is why the chair is not just a tilt. Hamaoui, Hassaïne & Zanone (2015). Sitting on a Sloping Seat Does Not Reduce the Strain Sustained by the Postural Chain. PLOS ONE 10(1): e0116353.
Pressure measured directly inside a lumbar disc came out at roughly 0.46 MPa sitting against 0.5 standing — sitting slightly lower, not higher. If you have read that sitting loads your spine far more than standing, that came from older measurements this study revised. What did hold up: muscle activity raises disc pressure, and changing position regularly matters for getting fluid and nutrients into the disc. Wilke, Neef, Caimi, Hoogland & Claes (1999). New in vivo measurements of pressures in the intervertebral disc in daily life. Spine 24(8), 755–762.

These are published ergonomics findings about seated posture in general, not tests of this chair, and none of them are medical advice. We have included the study that disagrees with us as well as the ones that support us. If your back hurts, see someone qualified.

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