Your audiophile chair

the Ekones Stressless is an excellent chair for lounging. i use one for TV watching, have owned 3 or 4 over time, and really like it when i have the back reclined. but for listening to stereo it’s not ideal, in that mostly it cups the sound around your head, and it does place the weight on your tailbone when your head is at the tweeter height. so it’s a 2 hour chair for serious listening.

there are Ekones Stressless chairs with lower back rests that don’t cup the sound, but the tailbone issue remains. so it’s compromised.

OTOH a perfect chair/zero gravity chair from the relax the back store, with a fixed back and thigh support and a weight transfer for your lower legs unweights your tailbone, so you can sit in it indefinitely. some ’perfect’ chairs have issues with also cupping the sound, but my perfect chair has a narrow back rest and head pillow and so reflects sound away from your ears so no tonal shift.

i’ve owned my ’perfect chair’ since 1999, 24 years now. i can and do listen for 12 straight hours with it. i’ll be buried with it.

When you are listening in your chair are you in a reclined position or upright?

@ronboco

my chair is always in a slightly reclined position (see link below for a picture).

my chair has a fixed backrest, fixed seat, and fixed leg supports. it tilts around an axis but i keep it in one position (since 1999 so far), which puts my ears just below the tweeter position, 40" verses 41" off the ground. the chair is tilted back so when i have my laptop with a pillow or i’m reading it’s perfect for my neck to be comfortable. sometimes my head is on the small half round head/neck pillow, sometimes slightly forward. my feet can be flat on the ground or suspended when using the lower leg support.

here is a link to a picture from 2001 in my old room showing this chair.

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/what-did-your-system-look-like-20-years-ago.34143/#post-770073

and btw; when i have listening visitors i move my ’perfect’ chair out of the sweet spot and move in a very different chair, the Cassina K-10 Dodo. it’s a 2 hour chair, but swivels and has a low back so is more communal. this is the chair the shows in my system pictures, but not what i use. i want a chair i can be in continually.

https://www.miliashop.com/en/armchairs/4309-k10-dodo-armchair-cassina.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw67ajBhAVEiwA2g_jED_I2xDr3abyekPhseHRSbCE7EUm_Q2BtRJ1l3LU0BvmnjYhITfe6BoCqQwQAvD_BwE