Office Master OM5 Chair from ErgoDirect
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,819 words · ~9 min read
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so r4a into chair reviews has been an interesting one it's a it's a weird
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category to begin with since you can't exactly graph butt comfort and Excel
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making everything very subjective but since we needed to find new chairs for
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our new office whether we ended up buying them or trading a position as the
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official chair of our new office and the WAN Show or something like that we set
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out to find something that would match our black and orange corporate colors
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yeah and cushion our press highes while
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we make videos about both chairs and
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other
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things ozone gamings argon RGB Mouse
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features an 8200 DPI laser sensor complete with a 16.8 million color
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lighting system and nine programmable buttons check out the link in the video
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description to learn more need for seat the first brand we were actually ever in
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contact with left a very good impression with their Dominator chair DX racer sent
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us their f-s series which we agreed as a team was quite solid but not as well
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built as the max nomic then we received chairs from arazzi and GT Omega that
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were decidedly not as good as either of the others even though we did appreciate
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the effort GT Omega put in to impress us by embroidering our logo on the chair so
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with the way things were just kind of getting worse as we continued to pursue
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less known Brands we made a final decision and Max nomic ended up
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sponsoring all the chairs at our office but that doesn't mean that I wasn't
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reading your messages asking us to check out something other than flashy gaming
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chairs enter the office Master om5 a
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non-gaming chair but also the winner of pcgamer.com recommended award in April
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of this year and an option that intrigued me enough to give a non-gaming
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chair a spin for review even though we had already locked in a sponsor for the
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new office first I needed to get my handson one so we reached out to Ergo
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direct who carries pretty much every
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different variety of om5 you could possibly want and it's actually it's a
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little easier than it sounds because every single chair is customade with a
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wide variety of color and finish options available so I went with the premium
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padium gray frame the pivoting and sliding ARM upgrade the gray polylex
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slatted back material without upholstery my back tends to get kind of warm so I
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figured the ventilation would be nice then I went with the rocket 4506 color
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for the Ceda hstry added a chrome cylinder and polished aluminum base and
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finished it off with the standard multi-surface soft casters overall I'd
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say the ordering process was actually the most difficult part of this video I
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mean the information is all there like the upholstery fabric catalog that
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actually gives a really nice look at all the various weaves and finishes below
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the chair itself but Ergo direct could
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improve the ordering experience dramatically with a live preview as
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you're selecting options like what dbrand.com has on their vinyl skin
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ordering page where you can see a rough idea of what the chair is going to look
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like all put together before you click order something that in my mind is
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essential when you're ordering online once the chair arrived though it was
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packed well enough and setup was very straightforward like if you've ever
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assembled a chair there won't be anything here to surprise you other than
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how heavy the om5 is for its size but I
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guess that's where the lifetime warranty comes from because the construction of
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the chair was very good across the board the casters roll smoothly the
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construction of the frame is rugged the back rest slats have ample give without
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feeling flimsy and even the plastic used feels similar to that stuff that they
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make like kids playgrounds out of super
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tough and not cheap feeling at all all
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right so enough physical tour let's get into the chair I've had the om5 in my
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computer room at home since Ergo direct sent it to me so for about four months
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and I guess you can consider the following to be based on my long-term
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impressions for your reference I'm 5' 6 150 lb and my wife's who is 5'4 and
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about 100 lb since the chair only ended up belonging to me for about 6 weeks
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before she claimed it as her own and I actually only just got it back from her
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recently to finally do this video the seat cushion material is great some
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seats like the leather Costco office chairs that my wife and I were using
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before have this padding material on it that feels soft when you put your hands
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on it but that is too soft and exposes
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your tushy to the hard flat wooden board underneath when you have to sit on it
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for a long period of time now I don't have this problem with the max nomic
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chairs in the office that use a dense enough foam to prevent the issue but
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office Master takes things a step further by shaping the hard supporting
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surface below the cushion to relieve any potential pressure points my butts not
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flat so it makes sense for the seat surface to have more cushion near the
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back where my weight will be above it and less at the front where it just has
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to deal with my legs next is the back rest I've only got a couple of
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complaints here number one is that the plastic slats remind me of like 80s
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patio furniture or something I would buy for my kids to sit on they look kind of
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cheap and number two when you get up in the middle of the night and you're not
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wearing a shirt you can kind of stick to them a little bit but I mean it's called
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office Master not sitting in it naked master so I guess that's not a complaint
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that they get that often and other than that I love the way the slats adjust to
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automatically redistribute themselves to the shape of my back so they can be
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supportive without any pressure points whether I'm sitting completely straight
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or reclining in it a little bit which leads us I guess to to the big killer
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feature of the om5 it only has a height
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adjust lever on the bottom that's it there is no lever to recline because the
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user is expected to just lean to adjust
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the position and have it stay there and this is some serious witchcraft here
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because it actually works to be clear it
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doesn't recline the way that our gaming chairs can and it doesn't have the
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requisite headrest for that functionality to make sense anyway you
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won't be sleeping in it but if you're going to be working at a desk I'd say it
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goes about as far back as you could need and then it stays there which doesn't
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mean I have no complaints the armrests were very underwhelming especially
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considering this is an upgraded option over the standard ones and the base
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chair doesn't come with any armrests at all they are adjustable in height
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forward and backward movement and angle but the angle positions are very limited
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and the forward back slider doesn't lock at all meaning it was something I
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constantly had to fidget with and on the subject of paying extra for adjustable
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armrests by the way the om5 uh is not
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cheap it may be affordable compared to Brands like Herman Miller but while I
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had actually written a lot of this review thinking that the Dominator chair
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that I use in my office at work was similarly priced because it's been over
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a year since I did the video on that and I forgot how much it costs the om5 even
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in its base configuration with no armrests is $200 more than a dominator
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and the config that you're looking at costs about double so is the om5 the
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most comfortable of the chairs we've reviewed so far the answer is yes with
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its versatility as a one-size fitall solution being another major selling
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point especially if you're outfitting an office for more than 10 people and you
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