so r4a into chair reviews has been an interesting one it's a it's a weird
category to begin with since you can't exactly graph butt comfort and Excel
making everything very subjective but since we needed to find new chairs for
our new office whether we ended up buying them or trading a position as the
official chair of our new office and the WAN Show or something like that we set
out to find something that would match our black and orange corporate colors
yeah and cushion our press highes while
we make videos about both chairs and
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description to learn more need for seat the first brand we were actually ever in
contact with left a very good impression with their Dominator chair DX racer sent
us their f-s series which we agreed as a team was quite solid but not as well
built as the max nomic then we received chairs from arazzi and GT Omega that
were decidedly not as good as either of the others even though we did appreciate
the effort GT Omega put in to impress us by embroidering our logo on the chair so
with the way things were just kind of getting worse as we continued to pursue
less known Brands we made a final decision and Max nomic ended up
sponsoring all the chairs at our office but that doesn't mean that I wasn't
reading your messages asking us to check out something other than flashy gaming
chairs enter the office Master om5 a
non-gaming chair but also the winner of pcgamer.com recommended award in April
of this year and an option that intrigued me enough to give a non-gaming
chair a spin for review even though we had already locked in a sponsor for the
new office first I needed to get my handson one so we reached out to Ergo
direct who carries pretty much every
different variety of om5 you could possibly want and it's actually it's a
little easier than it sounds because every single chair is customade with a
wide variety of color and finish options available so I went with the premium
padium gray frame the pivoting and sliding ARM upgrade the gray polylex
slatted back material without upholstery my back tends to get kind of warm so I
figured the ventilation would be nice then I went with the rocket 4506 color
for the Ceda hstry added a chrome cylinder and polished aluminum base and
finished it off with the standard multi-surface soft casters overall I'd
say the ordering process was actually the most difficult part of this video I
mean the information is all there like the upholstery fabric catalog that
actually gives a really nice look at all the various weaves and finishes below
the chair itself but Ergo direct could
improve the ordering experience dramatically with a live preview as
you're selecting options like what dbrand.com has on their vinyl skin
ordering page where you can see a rough idea of what the chair is going to look
like all put together before you click order something that in my mind is
essential when you're ordering online once the chair arrived though it was
packed well enough and setup was very straightforward like if you've ever
assembled a chair there won't be anything here to surprise you other than
how heavy the om5 is for its size but I
guess that's where the lifetime warranty comes from because the construction of
the chair was very good across the board the casters roll smoothly the
construction of the frame is rugged the back rest slats have ample give without
feeling flimsy and even the plastic used feels similar to that stuff that they
make like kids playgrounds out of super
tough and not cheap feeling at all all
right so enough physical tour let's get into the chair I've had the om5 in my
computer room at home since Ergo direct sent it to me so for about four months
and I guess you can consider the following to be based on my long-term
impressions for your reference I'm 5' 6 150 lb and my wife's who is 5'4 and
about 100 lb since the chair only ended up belonging to me for about 6 weeks
before she claimed it as her own and I actually only just got it back from her
recently to finally do this video the seat cushion material is great some
seats like the leather Costco office chairs that my wife and I were using
before have this padding material on it that feels soft when you put your hands
on it but that is too soft and exposes
your tushy to the hard flat wooden board underneath when you have to sit on it
for a long period of time now I don't have this problem with the max nomic
chairs in the office that use a dense enough foam to prevent the issue but
office Master takes things a step further by shaping the hard supporting
surface below the cushion to relieve any potential pressure points my butts not
flat so it makes sense for the seat surface to have more cushion near the
back where my weight will be above it and less at the front where it just has
to deal with my legs next is the back rest I've only got a couple of
complaints here number one is that the plastic slats remind me of like 80s
patio furniture or something I would buy for my kids to sit on they look kind of
cheap and number two when you get up in the middle of the night and you're not
wearing a shirt you can kind of stick to them a little bit but I mean it's called
office Master not sitting in it naked master so I guess that's not a complaint
that they get that often and other than that I love the way the slats adjust to
automatically redistribute themselves to the shape of my back so they can be
supportive without any pressure points whether I'm sitting completely straight
or reclining in it a little bit which leads us I guess to to the big killer
feature of the om5 it only has a height
adjust lever on the bottom that's it there is no lever to recline because the
user is expected to just lean to adjust
the position and have it stay there and this is some serious witchcraft here
because it actually works to be clear it
doesn't recline the way that our gaming chairs can and it doesn't have the
requisite headrest for that functionality to make sense anyway you
won't be sleeping in it but if you're going to be working at a desk I'd say it
goes about as far back as you could need and then it stays there which doesn't
mean I have no complaints the armrests were very underwhelming especially
considering this is an upgraded option over the standard ones and the base
chair doesn't come with any armrests at all they are adjustable in height
forward and backward movement and angle but the angle positions are very limited
and the forward back slider doesn't lock at all meaning it was something I
constantly had to fidget with and on the subject of paying extra for adjustable
armrests by the way the om5 uh is not
cheap it may be affordable compared to Brands like Herman Miller but while I
had actually written a lot of this review thinking that the Dominator chair
that I use in my office at work was similarly priced because it's been over
a year since I did the video on that and I forgot how much it costs the om5 even
in its base configuration with no armrests is $200 more than a dominator
and the config that you're looking at costs about double so is the om5 the
most comfortable of the chairs we've reviewed so far the answer is yes with
its versatility as a one-size fitall solution being another major selling
point especially if you're outfitting an office for more than 10 people and you
can't run around buying a different Siz chair for everybody's body type but with
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