AKRacing Office Series Opal - Ergonomic Fabric Computer Chair with High Backrest, Flat Seat, Recliner, Swivel, Tilt, Rocker & Seat Height Adjustment Mechanisms, 5/10 Warranty, Black (AK-Opal)

I'll do the obligatory size mention. I'm 6'3 and around 270. I needed a new desk chair for my now Work From Home office and was looking for a chair that hit the following items:1) Must have a high back2) Must be fabric so my cat doesn't ruin it with claws3) Needs to be wide enough in the seat so i'm not pinched in the thighs4) Needs some sort of Lumbar support for my bad backI was originally looking at the Tank series from DXRacer. Those are twice the price of this chair. Also they didn't seem to carry what I wanted anymore. It only came in leather. Next I went to SecretLab to look at their Titan. It hit all the items but was again twice the price of this chair.I looked at the other AKRacing chairs and discovered that even though it isn't said, the EX-Wide and this chair are the same chair, except for the seat. This seat is a flat seat where the EX-Wide has the more hip-hugging sides.I used that knowledge to check out reviews and took the plunge on this chair. I haven't been disappointed. I have had this chair for almost 4 months and here is where I am at:1) My back pain has been reduced. I have the chair almost upright and the lumbar cushion helps. It takes getting used to but it helps.2) My cat hasn't destroyed it. We had a leather chair and she put holes in it from climing it to lay on the top of the chair. The cloth on this chair doesn't have that problem.3) It feels incredibly sturdy. It doesn't make noise when swiveling, I've laid back in it a couple of times with no issues, and the piston is holding strong. It doesn't drop at all when I sit in it.4) It rolls pretty well. I have it on a chair mat but it rolls very easily on the stock wheels.5) Only downside I have is the seat isn't super cushioned so sometimes I get some pain when sitting for 3-4 hours of not moving. This doesn't apply as long as I get up every 90 minutes or so for a quick stretch.I must say I really like this chair. The price tag was a bit steep to me, but that's because the last chair I bought was 20 years earlier at 1/3rd the price on sale at a big box office store. That chair was a good chair but it was no where near the quality and durability of this one. I had that other chair for 13 years before I had to trash it. By that time I had repaired it multiple times and replaced a lot of the parts. I don't see that happening to this chair. Everything that matters is metal. I am looking forward to many happy years with this chair.

I bought this as a replacement to a very overpriced, uncomfortable, and straight up painful to use Arozzi Vernaza. The Arozzi forced my posture into a horribly uncomfortable position and caused not only poor posture and ergonomics, but also caused pain at multiple levels. While it had all the basic features and overpriced chair should have (the "premium" fabric still didn't breathe) some chair experts I talked to indicated the Vernazza was a joke of a product at the price it was listed, wouldn't last more on the padding for more than a year, maybe two, and from my own personal experience, the size was made for a person with abnormally long legs and abnormally short torso.I was recommended to look at the AKRacing Opal. While a chair at this price has no excuse to NOT have tilt angle lock, I reached out to AKRacing to see if there was a hardware option to add it. They did not have one to fit the Opal, which I think is a great disservice to this chair and the price. The current MSRP is $360, and a joke. Do NOT spend that. I got mine for $305 shipped, and that is a much more appropriate price, though still a hair high.The chair itself is nice, with good quality arm rests, a lower base height that most other gaming chairs don't have, the flat portion of the seat back is wider than the others I've measured (this was designed to be more an office style chair than a gaming chair.... the ergonomics are SO much better), which doesn't force my posture into a terrible unnatural position.The seat length is a couple inches shorter than the Vernazza, which does NOT cause my legs to go numb from lost circulation.Padding is still a little thin in the seat cushion, but that could just be me having hip issues. It is MUCH softer than the Vernazza, and I can still sit in it without a MUST to having a 3rd party extra cushion, although I do still have an open coccyx support pillow, and that may just be a necessary addition to all of my chairs for me at this point now.The fabric at first is very coarse to bare skin, and still gets a little sweaty, but I corrected this just by laying a towel over the parts of the chair I have bare skin contact as I like to sit at my computer shirtless.Seat width is wide enough for me to man spread and still be comfortable, except the very corners of the seat get to be a hair too long for the backs of my knees to rest on.Fabric option should be the default against that disgusting PU leather trash that should not even exist.The warranty on this is significantly better than anything else on the market.I bought this as a necessity - I was injured at work and my chair that this replaced wasn't helping me at all. It wasn't tall enough to fully lay back in and was falling apart from 5 years of use. gaming chairs were the only ones that had a tall enough back that I could actually lean back in and have my head fully supported. The neck pillow is a better shape than most other chairs that include a pathetic little lump of fibers that don't have any real design to actually act as a pillow. I will say the best feature of the Vernazza was probably the neck pillow though.Final thoughts are that this is a well built chair that should be a FIRST option for most people that need a tall back and a cloth option. This chair is the most ergonomic of the "gaming chairs" unless you want to pay even MORE for other brands that have no justification to be that expensive - "hand made" or not. Get this one on sale, and AKRacing better include a tilt angle lock on this specific model in the future as well, there's no excuse to not have it at this cost.

At first I wasn't sure what to think of this chair since it's so different from my old one. It's very firm, not plush or pillowy. But after some time with it, I love it! The ergonomics make it very comfortable, and the adjustable head and lumbar pillows are very nice. I also like how the arms adjust as well. I do wish it could tilt forward more and go lower, but those are minor preferences and if you're a big person, you'll like it. I love how you can tilt it all the way flat, though it feels like it might fall over if you're not careful. Extremely well constructed and sturdy. Very easy to put together - more detailed instructions can be downloaded though the instructions that came with it worked fine except for the pillows. Overall, I'm loving this chair!

This was relatively easy to put together. All the parts were included and functional, which is a pretty low bar, but considering reviews of other chairs I though it was good to mention. The chair is relatively comfortable, but definitely not amazing. The fabric seams on the cheap side, but not terrible. The cushioning is ok, but you can definitely feel the frame without putting in too much extra effort. Only time will tell whether the padding holds up or falls apart. It'll be pretty uncomfortable if the padding doesn't hold up. The reclining function works fine, but reclining more than a little bit feels awkward, like the balance is off and the hinge isn't placed right for the mechanics of the human body.Overall, I'd say it's an ok chair. Nothing to write home about, but the competition is a pretty low bar unless you want to spend a lot of money.