FOR VIDEO EDITORS & POST-PRODUCTION

THE TIMELINE DOESN'T CARE HOW YOUR BACK FEELS

Color grading. Timeline scrubbing. Multi-monitor reviews that run long after everyone else has gone home. Editing is a forward-lean job, session after session, deadline after deadline.

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THE EDIT BAY PROBLEM

Editors and colorists spend more consecutive hours at a desk than almost anyone in production — leaning toward multiple monitors, working a mouse and keyboard for precision cuts, sitting through review after review as a deadline closes in.

A generic task chair is built for sitting upright, not for the forward lean of real edit-bay work. That mismatch is where the low-back fatigue by hour six comes from.

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

Built for the edit bay

One platform.
Five models.

Every Stealth Chair starts from the same battle-tested platform, built for the forward lean of desk 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.

Or

The Performer

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

Stealth Standard Chair- Standard Size Seat - Stealth Chairs
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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Stealth Executive Audio Engineer Chair - Stealth Chairs
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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Stealth Pro Executive Audio Engineer Chair - Stealth Chairs
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 Chair Series Studio Stool With Backrest
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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01

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.

02

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.

03

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

You have not moved
since the export started.

Scrub, trim, play back, again. The timeline moves and you do not. Three questions about what eleven hours in one position is doing to you.

Q1

Deep in a cut. Describe your position.

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

Easier on the lumbar spine, harder on the neck and shoulders. Reclining while still reaching forward to work means your arms and head are unsupported even though your back is. Wilke's in-disc measurements found muscle activity is what drives pressure up, so the aim is not to find one perfect angle but to be supported across the range you actually move through.

What’s actually happening

Physiologically this is the best answer. Wilke found that regularly changing position matters for moving fluid and nutrients into the disc — being held still is the problem more than any particular posture is. The difficulty is equipment: most chairs support one end of your range and abandon you at the other.

Q2

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.

Q3

What does a heavy week look like?

What’s actually happening

At eight hours the priorities are a neutral pelvis and constant small movement. Forward seat tilt and a backrest that follows you handle both without you thinking about it.

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

Feet with nothing under them leave the weight of your legs hanging off the front edge of the seat, concentrating pressure on the underside of the thigh. This is also where Hamaoui's finding bites: a forward-sloped seat increases leg-muscle load, so height without a footring trades a back problem for a leg one.

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

WHO WE SERVE

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Audio Engineers

Mix, master, and produce in comfort — built for the forward lean at the console.

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Front of House & Live Sound

From soundcheck to encore — Stage Glide casters and tour-tested durability.

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Podcasters & Broadcasters

Marathon recording sessions, boom-arm posture, and control-room comfort.

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Musicians & Performers

Play longer, sit better — a performance seat that supports your craft.

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Houses of Worship

Sunday services and rehearsal nights — all-day comfort at the sound booth.

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Video Editors & Post-Production

Color grading, timeline scrubbing, and multi-monitor precision work.

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Streamers & Content Creators

Long streams, live chats, and on-camera posture that holds up for hours.

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