- Oh shit. (Jake laughs)
(camera beeps)
(Jake groans)
Look at that. That's a big box.
Today we're looking at a chair, which is unusual for me.
Not a big chair guy to be honest, but Colton's not here.
So I'm filling in.
This, in this giant box here, is the Cooler Master Synk X.
It's a gaming chair with haptic feedback
which basically means it's gonna vibrate your ass.
I can't wait.
This is a Jerryrig Everything knife,
you can get one at lttstore.com.
Did you know that?
Ow. Don't play with knives kids.
Oh wow. That actually like, holy crap.
That's life changing.
God. So much styrofoam.
I will admit you could probably package this
with a cardboard kind of piece here
instead of a bunch of styrofoam.
Not exactly good for the planet,
but it's fully assembled
Which is nice. (Jake grunts)
See look, a cardboard piece, they even know.
Why don't you do this?
Oh, okay. A power brick.
I guess that makes sense.
The chair's gonna have to be powered to vibrate your ass.
Pretty standard power brick.
Pretty reasonable power consumption for a chair.
Oh my god, this is gonna suck.
It's like the worst combo ever.
It's bubble wrap and then they wrapped it in like
what do you call this? Cling wraps?
Don't cut the chair?
Why? What's the worst that could happen?
I wonder if anyone's ever gonna make a cooled chair
like we made. That would be pretty.
Oh, whoa. Damn brother.
That's gotta sting to it.
(Jake sniffs)
Oh my god. Come, come smell.
This is like you just opened a can of paint smell.
It is dank.
Give her a whiff.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- That is what it exactly what it is.
It's paint. It's awful.
- To be fair, this is like a pre-production one.
It's very possible the packaging
and the stank factor will change.
I can only evaluate it as is and as is, woo.
Woop.
What is that? Whoa.
Whoa. Is that a foot rest. Leg rest?
So you can go like, oh man, this chair can't do this.
It's so stinky, man.
It is like toxic.
It's not very confidence inspiring on the lean back.
(Brandon laughs) Ugh.
So it's gotta flip out action and a slide.
Stows away pretty nicely.
We got up and down on the arms. Forward and back.
They also angle, which is nice.
They feel nice. They got a little cute little groove here.
Pretty hard kind of plasticy field
but they do angle nicely on the arms.
The Synk is made up of a wood and metal frame
covered in high density molded memory foam.
I'm gonna be honest, it feels more just like normal foam.
I don't feel like there's a lot of memory
action happening here.
And then on top of that is like a breathable fabric.
It very much feels like a standard sort of office chair.
It doesn't look super gamery
which depending on who you are, might be a good thing.
These casters are awful.
They're like plastic as (beep).
Am I doing it wrong?
Are they locked? Like this is bad.
I'm moving like two feet, man.
Even when the chair, like even when I'm not sitting in it.
Oh, maybe they just suck.
They must just be grinding.
Going forward for some reason feels better.
It's still bad. They're bad casters.
Luckily on most chairs you can swap those.
So if every other part of this is good
then it might be okay.
I'd lock the back.
Oh cool. All right.
You can lock the back.
That's nice.
There's a little bit of play in the back.
I don't know if it's intended
but it actually kind of, it's kind of nice.
- [Bell] 135 degree posture-bracing backrest.
- It must be 135 degrees from here.
Are you meant to be able to lean back on this?
Oh man.
- [Bell] Okay now. (Bell laughs)
- Am I lifted off the ground yet?
- [Bell] No.
- It's not exactly confidence inspiring.
- [Bell] What about the leg rest?
- Can you do the honors?
(both laugh)
Ooh, getting personal there. Oh (beep).
Is that all the way out?
- [Bell] Yeah I think so.
- Okay. (Jake whines)
- [Bell] Do you feel unconfident?
- I feel like I'm gonna tip over. Ah, um.
- [Bell] Yeah you're fully on the floor for your casters.
- I feel like I'm balanced
but if I leaned further back, this would be a problem.
It's probably fine.
To be fair, the reason that
I'm like a little bit iffy about it
is 'cause I haven't tried. (Jake groans)
You know? I think it'd be okay.
I think this chair can do this.
It's a little scary though
but that's not really the main attraction here.
What else we got?
It's a pretty like hefty looking frame.
Okay. On. (chair rattles)
(camera beeps)
On closer inspection of these casters.
These are absolute (beep).
And it does look like you can replace 'em.
They're just the standards style.
The base is metal, which is good to see.
The frame down here,
if you look at that, it's really gnarly.
Like this is a well built base of a chair.
She thick.
You can of course adjust the resistance
on the back down here to dial that in.
I wanna see if it's charged because the main selling feature
of this chair isn't being super comfortable.
It's that it has haptic feedback.
(chair clanks)
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He is short.
Hey, it turned on.
Oh, you have to plug it in to get the battery status.
Okay. That's kind of weird.
It looks like we got a 3.5 millimeter audio input,
I imagine.
We have a pairing mode.
Oh, this thing has Bluetooth.
Having it wireless is probably kind of important.
We got a headphone out presumably
so you can listen to headphones.
We got volume master, a RGB.
Hey, look at that.
I didn't even notice.
Wow. What other RGB modes we got?
Pulsing, rainbow, nothing.
Red, purple, green, blue, rainbow circle.
We'll leave it on that.
Hmm. What is this? There's like a panel here.
It's like blocked off.
Future expansion might be a service port
or something like that.
The select is a few different modes.
There's aux, which I assume is this input here.
There's BT, which has gotta be Bluetooth,
and then 5.8G.
Maybe in the long run this will also come with a USB dongle.
That would be my guess.
Let's check how the charging works here.
(charger clanks)
Okay, let's see how this works.
Plug in. It just blink red.
Does that mean it's not working?
I wanna know what my battery status is.
Well we're just gonna have to assume
that that's doing things.
Should we try to pair it to Bluetooth?
What are the odds we have any idea
what this Bluetooth device is called?
(playful music)
I don't know if this is even an audio.
It's not an audio device
so I don't know what I just to, it's blinking.
There's so many Bluetooth devices in this office.
Maybe it's this PXC 550,
because my back is shaking.
- [Brandon] PXC 550 is my headphone.
(Jake laughs)
- [Bell] Why are you connected to this?
- We're connected to your headphones.
Dude, this thing stinks. I have a headache.
Genuinely have a headache.
Belly, (beep), got it, I got it.
Ah, it's showing on my phone but not on the computer.
Maybe it's like, oh, it went away.
I give up. Aux cord it is.
Why'd you give me the shortest aux cord you can find.
Oh dude, my ass is shaking.
It's like a massage almost.
(chair vibrates)
Whoa.
That has got some oomph to it.
Ugh. Woo, it's making it off gas more.
Man this chair is just like, this is the default position.
I can't go more up. Come on chair.
It just, Ooh.
It's vibrating my skull.
Whoa. Do you hear my voice sounding weird?
Epic gamer moment.
Oh, this is, I dunno what's giving me more of a headache?
The vibration?
What the (beep) these headphones dude?
I don't know if this is really gonna
give me the best experience.
I spent all the money on my chair.
All I had was these like Air Canada ass over ear headphones.
(chair vibrates)
I feel very immersed right now.
♪ Dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun, dun. ♪
It's like shaking my whole soul.
Wait, it stopped. Oh no.
We ran outta battery.
Oh, it tells you what it's doing in the headphones.
It said Synk X activated, Bluetooth is ready to pair.
Okay, so if you wanna set this up,
just plug crappy headphones.
There we go. Bluetooth connected. Yes.
I would love to play a racing game with this.
I feel like that's the one thing you would actually
want your ass to vibrate for.
Oh God. There's no dead zone on the steering.
I only have like zero or a hundred percent steering.
It does give you feedback, I will say.
And like when you go off the track
your like whole ass is shaking.
Whoa. Oh it shakes in different areas.
When I was listening to music earlier
it was mostly just the back that was vibrating.
But in this instance when I went off the track
the butt part was vibrating and then up here not so much.
And then when I'm just sitting here idle
and you're like kind of, you know
your engine's vibrating a little bit more
'cause it's that idle.
The back is what's vibrating.
So there's kind of like zoning to it almost.
I like this. This is pretty cool.
Now the question is, whoa, what's the price?
We're trying to see if there's a way
to get it to be more vertical.
'Cause Brandon was saying
at the start of this video, it was more vertical.
Maybe we bent it or something.
I just grabbed the back
and reefed it forward and it seems like it bent back.
Oh God, am I just bending the metal?
Oh no. Ah. Like a traditional chair.
You've got kind of like a bracket on the side.
This is literally just the middle,
and it's just metal right here.
You could totally bend this thing.
Let's watch. Let's see.
And now it's vertical again.
I don't know what to say, dude, this is pretty bad.
In terms of the actual haptic function.
I don't know if it's like the most accurate,
cleanest bass ever, but it does give you
that physical feedback that's really good for racing games.
Or if you're watching like an action movie or something.
For that, pretty good.
I'm a little concerned because A,
the caster's not very good.
The off-gassing fabric smell
while really strong will probably go away.
But something that can't be ignored is the build quality.
It feels pretty good out of the box, but man
this back is just connected at the middle
and if you go back it bends back.
This is where I was sitting before.
Now the chair is back here.
That is honestly kind of inexcusable.
I think honestly they need to go back
to the drawing board with this one.
This chair should really be set up
as like a standard gaming chair with brackets
on either side to properly reinforce the back.
Because as is, the fact
that I'm just able to bend it by leaning back a bunch.
I'm not even trying to push that hard
and look at that kinda unacceptable.
I also don't have pricing to give you kind
of a recommendation on whether I think it's
out to lunch or a decent deal.
But just based on the build quality alone
I'm gonna go with, you should probably skip this one.
Maybe for the v2 they can fix a few things,
but as is I would not spend my money on this.
So thanks for watching.
If you guys like this video, maybe check out
the AM five motherboard mystery crate unboxing that I did.
That was pretty fun.
And if you miss Colton in Chair Reviews,
well too bad he's gone today and I took this one.
Sucks to suck. Colton, huh?
Okay, bye.