FOR PODCASTERS & BROADCASTERS

RECORD FOR HOURS. SIT LIKE IT.

Multi-hour episodes. Back-to-back guest bookings. Leaning into the boom arm and the board take after take. Your chair is either helping you keep the energy up or working against you.

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THE BOOTH CHAIR PROBLEM

Podcast and broadcast booths put you in the same forward-lean position as a mix engineer — reaching for the board, leaning toward the boom arm, holding focus through a two-hour interview or a full day of segments back to back.

Generic office chairs are built for sitting upright at a keyboard, not for that lean. Over a long recording day it shows up as the same lower-back ache and restless shifting that studio engineers deal with.

Stealth's patented ZenWave motion and Free-Float backrest were engineered for exactly that forward-lean posture.

Built for the booth

One platform.
Five models.

Every Stealth Chair starts from the same battle-tested platform, built for the forward lean of booth work. Choosing the right one comes down to two simple questions.

Tap a choice to filter the models below ↓

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

Three hours leaning
into a microphone.

It is technically a posture. Your guest is comfortable, the levels are good, and your lower back has been holding you at a fixed angle since the cold open. Three questions.

Recording. Where are you relative to the mic?

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

The right instinct — move the equipment to the body rather than the body to the equipment. What is left is the seat itself: a flat pan still rolls the pelvis backwards while you sit back, which is the shortfall Mandal described.

What’s actually happening

Performing a posture is more tiring than adopting one, because conscious muscular control is added to a body that is already fatiguing. Soderberg's finding is useful here: a forward-inclined seat lowered back-muscle activity during a seated task, so the position costs you less to hold.

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.

What does the room have to deal with?

What’s actually happening

The practical constraint is silence before looks — a chair that creaks or rolls ends up in the edit. Stage Glide Casters are built for exactly this: non-marking, broadcast-quiet, controlled rather than free-rolling, with a locking caster in the set so it stays put during a take.

What’s actually happening

Tool-free adjustment is the whole specification for a shared chair. Set once for one body, it is wrong for every other body, and nobody re-rigs a chair before a shift — they sit badly for two hours instead.

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.

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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Your match

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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Your match

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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