NewtralErgonomic Home Office Chair, High Back Desk Chair with Unique Adaptive Lumbar Support, Adjustable Headrest, Seat Depth Adjustment, 96°-126° Tilt, Adjustable Armrest Recliner Chair for Office

I spend 12+ hours per day sitting at a desk many days. I'm 5'11, 170 with a boney keister and back problems. I have many decades of office chair experience, so I can usually tell right away if a chair is going to create discomfort for me. You can probably see from the stars I gave it that this passed my initial "oh no way" test. I just got the chair, so I can't give any impressions on longevity, but here's my initial impressions:The chair base is powder coated steel. In my opinion, this is an upgrade over your typical plastic chair base. It looks simple, clean, unobtrusive and doesn't look cheap or dated. It's a small thing, but I appreciate it.The wheels are on the higher end of basic office chair wheels. Those rollerblade wheels are all the rage, but those have their own drawbacks - they can suck up your sock or bare foot (ouch!) and on hard floors, they can roll TOO easily. The wheels included with this chair roll smoothly without any of those drawbacks and look a bit nicer than your bottom-of-the-barrel office chair wheel. I have a 4x6 low-pile loop carpet mat that I use as a chair mat/floor protector, and these wheels roll nicely over this mat, while giving me enough resistance so the chair doesn't move when I don't want it to. Perfect.The arms - So, there is a lot of adjustment for these arms. They can raise from about 7.5"-10.5" (seat-to-arm) with a little release lever on the outside of the arm. The space between the arms can be adjusted slightly during assembly and there's another 1.5" of tool-free adjustment, as well as 2" front/back and a pivot to angle the arms inward or outward. It's cool that there's so much adjustment, but it does mean the arms aren't all that rigid. They aren't loose, but it's fairly easy to unintentionally adjust them. They aren't hard plastic, it's more of a very stiff foam with a plastic coating. They're also contoured nicely in the back and kind of cup your forearm.The seat base/cushion - the seat (together with the arms) can be adjusted forward and backward by about 2" in set increments (I think there's six notches). This can help your fine tune your seating position in relation to the the back, which is a cool feature. The cushion is soft, but high density foam and the fabric feels durable. Both the foam and the fabric remind me very much of automotive upholstery - in fact, it feels nearly the same as the driver's seat on my Jeep Wrangler, if maybe a bit softer foam. The underside of the seat and along the bottom edge is a plastic shroud, which does have a nice clean look. Time will tell how the foam holds up, but my initial impressions are that it feels good quality. Supportive, not too hard or too soft.The headrest - it's height adjustable and you can pivot it to suit your needs. The height adjustment has detents for a handful of set positions, but neither the height or the pivot can be locked into place, so like the arms, you can move the adjustment unintentionally sometimes. It's a firm headrest, but fine for leaning back for a few moments to rest your eyes. You won't be falling asleep on this headrest though.The back - I quite like the back. It has a plastic reinforcement behind the fabric at the lumbar area that is height adjustable. This makes the lumbar support is very good. The rest of back feels nice and supportive to lean against without any pressure points. The fabric is a linear pattern, not a "mesh", so it looks much nicer/modern than your typical mesh back. The back has three height positions that it can be attached to the chair base during assembly giving some additional range of fine tuning for your size. Very cool. The recline tension can go from very loose to very strong and there are three positions you can lock the seat back in. The seat base and arms recline slightly with the back, but they don't move together lockstep, which is kind of great - you get a deeper lean on the back and only a slight raise on the front edge of the seat cushion. Very well engineered mechanism.Finally - the back/gizmo/spring that moves the back forward and backward as you move. I don't like it. I know this is the big selling point of the chair, but, it just doesn't do anything for me. It's kind of noisy as it moves, and it feels like it's either not doing anything or it's pushing you off the chair, depending on the tension you have it set to. Plus it tends to pull your shirt up in the back while it moves, which is annoying. Additionally, if you lean back it can leave you with zero lumbar support unless you shift your tush back as you lean, which is just too much gymnastics for me. That being said, you can lock the mechanism in place at various positions, so it just makes for another adjustment point, which is great! This may just come down to personal preference, it wasn't for me, but you don't have to use it, so win-win.Honestly, the build quality and the adjustments available are very surprising to me at this price point. I don't think you could find a better chair for this price and it likely rivals chairs selling for twice as much or more. Assuming this chair holds up (and I have no reason to believe it won't), it is a very good buy.

I have a very tight/fatigued lower back that complains if I am behind a desk for more than a few hours. I knew finding a comfortable full-day use chair was going to be a challenge. I've tried 25+ different chairs in Staples, Costco, Office Depot, and a handful of office furniture stores to find a budget friendly chair to upgrade from my old trusty Staples mesh one that has worn down enough to no longer be comfortable.My back is so picky and so bad that I was often sitting with a yoga/pressure back stretching pad behind my back just to provide enough pressure on bad days. Old with the old in with this new Newtral chair.Newtral was definitely intriguing me with the amount of adjustability and the lumbar support piston called to me. I wanted that firm, yet adjustable lumbar support that would alleviate my lower back struggles.I was pleasantly shocked! I did my first full 8 hour work day behind the PC in a long time the next day after buying it. And since then I have done many many days of 6+ hours. It is comfortable enough that I can find myself starting to doze off on it during late night PC sessions. That's a good sign. As usually I have to tap out and lay down to give my back some relief. Yet with Newtral I was able to power thru it a full day and some very late nights.I'm still surprised how much adjustability this chair has. I love it for that reason.I AM NOT FORCING MY BODY TO FIT THE CHAIR, I AM ADJUSTING THE CHAIR TO FIT MY BODY!Completely Adjustable from Bottom to Top:* Seat Height - Adjustable* Seat Depth - 4 Lockable Positions* Recline - 3 Lockable Positionsor Floating Mode with Knob Adjustable Recline Resistance* Armrest Depth - 5 Lockable Positions* Armrest Angle - 3 Position Inward-Outward Angle Adjustable* Armrest Width - Slider Side-to-side Spacing* Armrest Height - 7 Lockable Positions* Lumbar Pressure - 3 Lockable Positionsor Floating Mode with Variable Resistance (via Knob)* Backseat Height Options - 3 Positions (tool-less change, takes about 2 mins)* Headrest - Height and Angle AdjustableI don't believe I have ever found a more adjustable and flexible chair. On focused periods I can keep the lumbar super firm in the far forward position and provide constant pressure while working in full upright mode. Other times I can release the lock and make it floating so if I am moving around in my chair more it gives good pressure dynamically as I lean back or forward. Or if my back needs a break or I want to lean back and relax a bit I can lock the lumbar piston in the deepest back position so it isn't aggressive at all and I can get more comfortable.A side benefit of the about of adjustability if you had 2+ people with fairly different builts/heights, the adjustability in positions from seat height to seat depth to lumbar pressure to lumbar position or floating mode to armrest height/depth/angle to tilt lock will come in handy. It can be one chair that can work well for both individuals.Deep diving and comparing a few dozen different chairs with real in-store seat time... I have without a doubt I cannot find a better one for this price range. It has a solid build in ever piece and all carefully wrapped in bubble wrap or foam. The e-mail support team is very responsive. Nothing on this chair feels fragile or like they cut corners.### 1 Month Update ###Now with over a month seat time I'm still in love with the chair. I'm in the chair so long some days that I choose to sit in it to watch a movie or just relax, that I do wish it had 1 more step recline making it >=135 instead of 125 degrees. But other than that I have ZERO complaints. One day I'll find a Herman Miller or Steelcase chair to compare it to just to see the hype of those, but at this time I feel like I got a steal of a deal for a comfortable chair that could last me an easy 5+ years.