After A Year With The Secretlab Magnus Pro Xl, Here's My Honest Review

The SecretLab Magnus Pro Desk is everything I wanted from the original Magnus Desk! I compare the Magnus Pro Desk to my previous Uplift Standing Desk in this review video.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 Old Desk
1:10 Warranty
1:20 Sizes
2:16 Price
3:08 Assembly
4:38 Cable Management
6:43 Monitor Arms
8:46 Desk Mat
11:07 Accessories
11:43 Complaints
12:17 Wobble
12:44 Raising and Lowering with Sound Test
13:15 Verdict

Thank you for your support!

This video is NOT intended to be medical advice nor is it meant to replace the professional advice from your Doctor or Physical Therapist. Please stretch and exercise responsibly and within your personal limits. My views and opinions do not represent the U.S. Army nor do they officially endorse this channel.

[Secretlabchairs]

Great video! thanks for the detailed review, and we're glad the cable management tray has worked perfectly with your setup. We also appreciate the feedback with some of the things we can improve with the MAGNUS Pro - we'll relay this with our Product team to note on how we can further work to fulfill more needs from our desk users. Cheers Fracno!

[stanleefanatic]

For those using their monitor arms on the desk and are concerned about putting it on with the minimum space because of the cable management lid, you can very easily unscrew the lid and put it back on after you attach your monitor arms. There is tons of space and it is super easy to take the lid off and put back on. Just 4 screws.

[negligentavarice]

The entire goal of a UPS is to provide surge protection and a backup battery so that you can shut everything off before it dies. As long as you aren't coupling another surge protector in, you are allowed to use a power STRIP in the cable management tray and plug the power of the desk into the ups to keep the entire operation running with one cable! Feel like this is most useful if you have any short cables, though.

[timschmidt]

Thanks for also providing a "complaints" section! Really good to know to make a better decision.

[MindfulMusic]

What blows my mind is how these two companies have the support leg thicknesses in reverse compared to others. This has been shown to be one of the major key factors in that extra wobble. The frames w/ the 3 stage support beams w/ the thicker legs that reduce to the smaller ones are just better.

[dylanc]

Missed seeing your vids, man! You have such a calm demeanor and way of speaking. It really makes for enjoyable videos, no matter what you are covering.

[Comrade_Broski]

As someone in IT, I really appreciated you advising people to use a UPS 👍 great review

[HassThaMann]

Good to see you are back on YouTube. I need my gaming health guru

[Quartz]

I like how the cable management works in the desk because its something that a only company like Secretlabs can do. Like I understand why every company doesn't do what Secretlabs does but with the Secretlabs desk it feels like you're getting your money worth.

[jordans]

Really appreciate the in depth review. I'm in the market for a new, bigger desk and love that secret labs has a bunch of accessories

[narpt]

"I Know myself I know I shouldnt just have.. free desk space" haha I love this, good transparency of character is what makes your videos YOUR VIDEOS franco, love it man, great overview.

[samirbhargava]

Just ordered mine $1300 later great review this helped me this will look sick with my Batman secret lab chair for my home office setup

[Yue]

So I have the exact same desk, and I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but the Secretlab Magnus Pro isn't exactly "all metal"; that part's a little misleading. It's really a sheet of steel veneer on top of MDF material. You'll be able to see that if you look under the desk, as the metal wraps around just under the edges. I was originally a bit concerned with the desk weight since I thought it was all metal, but using MDF makes sense to keep the desk from being ridiculously heavy and expensive. And it's still pretty durable material. It's at least relatively safe to get the top surface wet, and unlikely people will soak the bottom of it. It does also mean you can't really mount things magnetically under the desk though.

[mldnighttruffle]

dude i just assembled mine yesterday and i waiting the entire video for you to talk about trying to center the magnetic desk mat. i literally spent more time getting it aligned properly that i did assembling the rest of the dest moniror arms included haha

[BiXàiGì]

Your take at [11:40] is spot on! It’s exactly what I was looking for in a review.

[americanghostproject]

1:55 made me laugh. Dude, don't we all. Thanks for this review. We are moving into a new Studio space and I have been weighing getting one of these. This video made it a lot easier to make that choice.

[thomasdrake]

Bruh, thank you for such a well put together detailed review of this desk! You helped answer most of my questions and this lead me make my final decision!

[a.caguax]

@11:55 flashing a garbo on us pleebs + gundams = new subscriber.

[barryduncan]

Here's an idea... plug your UPS into.... YOUR DESK! And then everything is running off your UPS. You're welcome.

[MaxFluff]

awesome video! everything I wanted to know in 1 less than 15 min vid! thanks man