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start with the shopping experience color selection was easy all their chairs look
pretty freaking awesome actually and I went with an orange and black color
scheme very similar to the Linus techtips one model selection though was
where things got a little bit tougher they have DX racer chairs listed on the
need for seat site but the model names don't correspond to the ones on DX
Racer's own website in any meaningful way and when I contacted DX racer about
the naming and visual similarities between the products they denied any
affiliation so I settled on Need for seat's own max nomic line which based on
the tear down on their site versus copycat chairs looks pretty freaking
awesome you should check out the tear down by the way if you get a chance I
didn't want to cut up my chair because I plan on using it for years to come but
if their point is the difference in materials and construction that you get
for an extra $100 versus a lookalike is worth it then it comes across very well
the unboxing and assembly process only took about a half an hour even though I
did it myself and the manual suggests getting a helper speaking of which the
manual is full color and I was really pleased with it until I got to the part
where it broke the news to me that this is not in fact a sex chair I tried
pretty hard not to hold that against the chair when I was doing my sitting
benchmarks but no promises onto the
evaluation of the chair I'll start with my past experience I've got a 100ish
doll IKEA chair that I use at the office every day a $2 200ish leather Costco
chair that I use at home every day and now I have a$ 300 plus doll chair so the
angle I'll be tackling this from is what do you get in terms of extra features
and comfort as you spend more money
height adjust is pretty standard these days and while the gas lift on the max
nomic only moves about 3 in I found that
even when it's bottomed out you don't get that rock hard feeling as you plunk
down into it so it's got a wider usable range than my other chairs where I have
to leave a bit of an air cushion at the bottom at all times I did find the lever
a bit tough to reach compared to the other designs though and on that note
this seems like a good time to check out the other levers that are down here the
one on the left is a lean lock but I left this off because there's a knob on
the bottom that you can turn to adjust the tension of the lean so I set it up
so that it was basically impossible for me to lean the chair accidentally but
easy to do it on purpose with my feet up under my desk the way I sometimes like
to sit when I'm writing the last lever is back over on the right and controls
the recline feature it's a little disconcerting at first being able to
lean so far back in a chair but even with the stock base they have a heavier
Duty one I didn't feel like there was any risk of me falling over it's got
like 12 steps four of which at the beginning are completely unusable see
like really and then combined with the included head pillow I'd say it's
legitimately comfortable enough to sleep in if you're into that and you're alone
which leads us to overall Comfort I usually don't do 8 hour Marathon sits
but even since I've gotten it I've had a couple days where I've been sitting for
3 plus hours at a time and that's where I often run into trouble with my buns
falling asleep in my other chairs because when I've gone shopping for
chairs in the past I've looked for soft cushioning and the problem with the
chairs I buy is that after half an hour to an hour you're basically sitting on
the plywood inner material because the cushion is so easy to push through while
the Dominator doesn't feel like sitting on a cloud or anything the cushion is so
thick and has enough strength to it that even though it's not goose down I can't
get through it to the inner structure so there's always some padding which
allowed my buns to stay awake much better and I also found that sitting on
something that's comfortable but not soft made my sitting position naturally
better somehow I mean I'm still not Percy perfect posture by any stretch but
small improvements can add up to a lot when you spend a long time in your chair
I didn't find their Lumber bar support pillow that useful because it moved
around a fair bit when I got up and sat back down on the chair but the chair is
plenty comfortable without it anyway and I did find the headrest one was a little
bit more useful onto the armrests they're kind of awesome actually they
have a ton of adjustments they can go up and down they can go if I can find all
these buttons in real time here they can go side to side whatever we'll do this
in b roll they can go side to side they can be angled in and out and they can go
forward and back it's a feature I normally don't find myself using much
these adjustments you just kind of set it and forget it but with how quick it
is to adjust particularly the height I actually found myself raising my mouse
ARM so I'd have a nice flat again cushioned but not overly comfortable
platform to rest my elbow on then tucking them down and moving my chair in
whenever I needed to do some serious typing again little ergonomic
improvements that help over time speaking of time I guess it's conclusion
time the worst thing about this chair has got to be the shopping experience
need for seat needs to add a comparison tool or a shopping helper wizard to
their site because for most people the differences in features will not be the
main deciding factor and getting the size and weight suggestions right will
be more important their less expensive casual sport model may have actually
been a better fit for me but I didn't realize that until after this one had
already arrived in spite of it being a little bit big for me though it's very
comfortable and even though it uses fake leather rather other than natural
leather the inside materials make up for this in my mind and I'll be using this
chair as my new daily driver at work but the real test of course will be what we
go with when it's time to equip everyone in the office with better chairs so stay
tuned because we want to try out some other options and once we've made a
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