Herman Miller Aeron. Expensive but you get what you pay for. It's covered by a 12-year warranty that includes parts and labour and will probably outlast me. I bought this heavily discounted in a "Black Friday" sale a couple of years back as I wanted a Size C (for tall people), though there are plenty of fully refurbished ones available in Size B that fit nearly everyone.
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I had a couple of quite expensive 'gaming' chairs, they weren't particularly comfortable to sit playing games for any length of time. Got rid of and bought a Call Centre chair. Not cheap, but designed for heavy use and with plenty of adjustments to tailor the chair to me.
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I really like my Markus chair, really comfortable - have had it many years now (more than the 10 year guarantee), many hours per day use. The arms on the more expensive Järvfjället look awful to my mind.
Doesnt that hold true with shoes, too? And other garments your wear?
I have a secretlab Omega. I prefer them over the Titan. They're really snug on my bum. And they don't make the horrible sounds the lumbar support of the Titan does.
I've had back surgery for L4/L5 disc.
My chair is one of those mesh chairs. I bought it over a decade ago and its very nice. As goldilocks said, its just right. However, I've noted that similar chairs now in the office stores are more expensive and more cheaply built. This one has just enough spring in the mesh seat. You can adjust the lumbar support, but I don't lean back in my chair to notice. I alternate between sitting in it and standing.
The chair looks like a herman miller aeron chair but not even nearly the cost of one.
I did have to replace the armrests and wheels on this office chair. Those parts are actually quite cheap. The expense seems to be in the gas chamber which was not broken.
For my gaming computer, I bought a "gaming" chair. I think that just means "we upped the price on a regular chair". Its not quite as nice, but it does the trick.
My chair is one of those mesh chairs. I bought it over a decade ago and its very nice. As goldilocks said, its just right. However, I've noted that similar chairs now in the office stores are more expensive and more cheaply built. This one has just enough spring in the mesh seat. You can adjust the lumbar support, but I don't lean back in my chair to notice. I alternate between sitting in it and standing.
The chair looks like a herman miller aeron chair but not even nearly the cost of one.
I did have to replace the armrests and wheels on this office chair. Those parts are actually quite cheap. The expense seems to be in the gas chamber which was not broken.
For my gaming computer, I bought a "gaming" chair. I think that just means "we upped the price on a regular chair". Its not quite as nice, but it does the trick.
Good point - the ex-display Järvfjället I got was prebuilt and has no arms, so can't comment on those.
I've been using a secretlab Titan since 2019 and it has been one of the best peripherals I've ever bought. The pleather upholstering on the arm rests has kinda split open on the sides, but considering the thousands of hours I've already sat in this thing that is pretty negligible, imo. Everything else still works as it did on the first day.
Disclaimer: no lower back problems here, I work out 3-4 times a week
Disclaimer: no lower back problems here, I work out 3-4 times a week
They look like standard office chair arm rests to me. I hate the armrests on the Markus, by not being adjustable they are completely useless and always in the way
.I think I might swing by the local IKEA after work and take a look at the Järfv... Järvf... whatever. The other chair.
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It's very practical.
It's very practical.
Yeah, agreed about the markus armrests. That's why I removed them and used this instead:They look like standard office chair arm rests to me. I hate the armrests on the Markus, by not being adjustable they are completely useless and always in the way
I think I might swing by the local IKEA after work and take a look at the Järfv... Järvf... whatever. The other chair.
The cheap chairs have naff materials, particularly the foam in the seat, so your backside hits the plywood underneath.
The expensive chairs can also suffer the same issue.
Some have lumber supports that are fixed and suit some people and give others back pain.
Some have a silly little cushion on an elastic band for support. You might as well stick a rolled up T shirt in your lumber.
Best to sit in the chair before you buy it.
My advice: Sit in your chair and get someone to take a photo from the back and the side of you playing a game. If the photo shows you leaning to the side or forwards then you will end up with neck, shoulder or lower back problems, even if you are sat in the most expensive games chair.
The expensive chairs can also suffer the same issue.
Some have lumber supports that are fixed and suit some people and give others back pain.
Some have a silly little cushion on an elastic band for support. You might as well stick a rolled up T shirt in your lumber.
Best to sit in the chair before you buy it.
My advice: Sit in your chair and get someone to take a photo from the back and the side of you playing a game. If the photo shows you leaning to the side or forwards then you will end up with neck, shoulder or lower back problems, even if you are sat in the most expensive games chair.
A layer of square gel, a small thin square pillow and then an orthopedic u-cutout gel cushion on top of that that takes the pressure off the spine area. It makes it tolerable for reasonable lengths of time. I can put this setup on any chair that has a relatively flat area and it works great. I think the most important thing other than what's under you is the ability for the chair to maintain a straight position to fortify proper posture.
I bought the fantasy lab big and tall because it has a giant seat area I can fit my layered cushioned creation into and it accommodates a lumbar vertical support cushion as well and is still roomy. The actual bottom of the chair is very hard and super uncomfortable if you aren't using some kind of additional cushion. As a stand alone chair I would rate it very uncomfortable but if you need the space to layer on your own stuff its a perfect host. It is solid and adjusts decently.
As an edit I will add that you should experiment with bottom cushions, regardless of how good something feels at first with sitting for extended sessions after about an hour even the nicest gel slabs and comfort cushions compress and everything feels hard. I played with many different variations until I settled on the gel bottom layer, the typical cotton seat cushion in the middle and the orthopedic memory foam / gel comfort layer bottomed u seat on the top. I was using memory foam pillows and all kinds of in-betweens. If you cannot find a comfortable lumbar support that works for you (There's decent orderable ones to put behind you, and they are fairly cheap) get the thinnest memory foam pillow you can find and wrap it around your lower back, it got me through for a long time till I found an ad-able lumbar support that worked. This is what inspired me to find a giant chair, more of like a commanders bridge chair than a small gaming chair. Even with all this though I cant really deal with it after about two hours so I definitely game less these days.
Bulging L4-L5 left side dominant into severe sciatica.
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That ... Pay attention to what weight the chair is rated for and pick one that has a weight rating well over your weight. That way, it'll last longer.
That's the problem ... You have to be lucky to find something that doesn't cost a fortune.But beware, they're mostoften not of a really cheap nature...
Not for me, I can't buy cloths or shoes in stores because they don't have anything that I could or would buy. And they don't have parking, so even if they had stuff I could buy, I'd still buy online because without parking, there's no way to get there and it's awfully time consuming. Plus every time I went there, when they still had parking (you still had to walk for miles and it sucked), they said 'We're closing because it's noon brake' and when I went later they said "We're closing, it's almost 18:00 hours now", so I still didn't have a chance. It's been over 20 years that they had stuff I would buy and it was always a nightmare. Buying online is so much easier ... buy one pair of jeans (or a shirt) and if it fits buy 3 (10) or so more, same with shoes. If it doesn't fit, send it back if it's worthwhile returning it; they tend to include the papers for the return. I keep wondering why they still have stores in town; who still goes there when they're unreachable and always closed. To buy cloths or shoes online, you only need to know what size you need.
The furniture shops tend to have parking, and ordering a chair online, putting it together to try it out and sending it back like 10 times or more often isn't really a good option. I wonder how they'd deal with that: Most chairs you can't take apart again for shipping once assembled ...
One thing I've learned over the years is that it's cheaper in the long run to pay extra for quality. Buying something cruddy and low-cost now just means you'll end up replacing it all the faster.
The wisdom of Sam Vimes