NOUHAUS Ergo3D Office Chair (Open Box)

This isn’t my full review yet, I love chair for a first impression, but this part of the headrest I found was broken. The screw in its plastic cover was inside the mesh hidden in its hole, but I heard wobbling behind my ear and it was this broken screw. It’s not a deal breaker obviously, and it’s not the reason for my 4-Stars. It’s just a worry that, as you can see, the mesh may start to get loosened up with time and use, and get easily ripped, because of this broken screw. I’d be happy if you send me a replacement headrest. Otherwise great chair, and I’d recommend, will also update this after using the chair for a bit. Edit: eeeeh... just after a couple/few weeks of use, I'm already coming back here to take away one star, for a total of 3. See, at first sight the chair looks very high quality, solid materials and looks great. PROS: I loved the reclining system, opposed to the traditional, gamer chair, one-position-lock-in-place system. Explanation: in my gamer chair/typical chair experience, this how the back of the chair works: you have a liver, set the back to a certain tilt degree, and have it permanently there, until your back gets sore and you have to reposition it. That's what my back gotten used to and that's what's given me back problems. See, in this chair, the back is best used as follows: leave the back liver in "freefall mode", meaning, don't lock the back in place, and then, using the knob on the bottom of the seat, adjust the "weight" of the back to match your preference. That way, the entire back seat of the chair will move freely along with your movement, it'll be stiff, so that it supports you and doesn't completely fall back if you lean on it; and, it'll be soft enough, so that IF you lean on it, it'll go back with you, but still be stiff enough to hold your posture in place. I don't know if that made sense, but, if you're a smaller guy, or better yet a smaller gal, this chair would fit you really well. CONS: First troubles started when assembling the chair, it was unnecessarily difficult, as in, only if they marked the screws and named them (like every other product assembly), the operation would've been much easier. All the screws look very similar, and it was a challenge for me figuring out each screw goes where, especially because they could fit in all holes. Second, the assembly is not precise, in each spot where you screw a part in, there's a huge room for error, example: attaching the back of the chair to the bottom, or attaching the pump to the bottom of the seat. These (in theory) MUST be locked in, in a very tight spot, where they're perfectly centered, with no wiggle room or anything like that, and then screwed in and tightened in place. That's how it should be... instead? You try your best to somehow hold the parts in place, perfectly bullseye center the screws in the holes without moving the whole thing and ruining the centeration, then tighten the screws diagonally one by one, and by the time you tighten the second screw, the first one would escape and shift its perfect centeration. Thus, shifting the whole centeration of the bottom seat being attaching to the pump and the base. Same exact thing goes to the back, and the armrests. I even got my brother to help me out rebuild the chair and try to center everything out, but it literally was impossible. That was TWO. Thirdly? After all the disasters and failed attempts in the alignment of the seat and the back, I get to start to rest and adjusting my posture to the chair, and here I find my red-flags. I'm a fairly small guy (compared to actual big guys), I'm 5'11-6' (180cm), and 158 lbs (72kg). And the chair was *very unfortunately* not comfortable over long hours. See, I'mma be clear, the chair is PERFECT for back posture, and sitting absolutely straight, I'm talking 90 degrees back, 90 degrees on the knees, for laser-focused-1-foot-from-the-monitor gaming. Like... it's actually really comfortable to sit absolutely straight in and game. But if you're anything like me, you get sore quick and tend to move your posture a lot? It's.... just not good! The space around the thighs is really really small, a snug fit, my thighs barely fit the mesh. If I slide a little bit lower, my back hits the plastic separator between the two back pieces. The headrest is decent, except it is too far back, whenever you want to rest your head on it, you have to reach your neck back to an uncomfortable position, i.e, you can't really rest your head on the headrest and continue using your PC. If you rest your head on it, you'll be look at the ceiling, even if you had the back of the chair completely tilted to the front. Lastly, the mesh material is uhhh.. I dunno it's not the softest and most comfortable, it is a mesh after all, so, much better than regular old gamer chair memory foam. But I dunno..... I guess I had my hopes a little bit higher. I'm already looking for a replacement, and this time I think I'm going for a real high end chair, I don't want to play the game of "budget guessing", buying something relatively cheaper and having to go through the pain of having it meet the expectations or absolutely shred them. That's the review.