X-Chair X2 Executive Task Chair, Black K-Sport Mesh

Well worth the money. Very solid and comfortable.

A bit pricey but a comfortable chair with good adjustments for the height, tilt, and seat. Sturdy construction. The negative components are the arms. Although they are adjustable in height, angle and forward/backward position, the adjustment is hit or miss and seems very flimsy with respect to the angle and forward and reverse positions and to some extent to the height of the arms. You hear a grinding-like sound in adjusting and there is no clear indication as to the angle chosen, position fore and aft, and height. You have to guess by feel. There are no markers or indicator of any sort, either tactile or visual. Slight movement of the arm while resting on the armrest can result in an unintended change of angle inward or outward. Same for inadvertent movement fore or aft when holding onto the armrest to get into our out of the chair. I would expect a more sophisticate adjustment mechanism for a chair of this price.

If someone told me I would pay $800 for a chair, .... Worth twice as much, Tommy 6 foot 175 poounds

The lumbar support is so weak it does not do any good at all. I am 5'-8" and the back along with the lumbar do not raise up enough to be in the proper location for my back. There are a lot of people taller than me and it does not work for me. To raise or lower the back or the arm rests, you pick up until you have it correct. The problem is when you get to the maximum height, you have to go all the way back down and start over and you don't know where you where for height. Almost impossible to get to the maximum height. The bottom tilts with the back and there is only three adjustment locations, too far forward, and too far back and way too far back. It is not variable and the lever for the adjustment does not release easily and you have to mess with it to get it to engage. In fact none of the levers work well. The armrests and the back adjust upward simply by lifting them up. Unfortunately when you grab them to move the chair they raise up and the adjustment procedure starts all over and it is difficult to get the height that you want because of what I previously described. I did not find anything good about this chair. I spent a lot of time reading reviews before I finally decided to get it. The only thing the reviewers said anything bad about it was about the armrests not being very sturdy and I agree with that. I really wonder if the reviewers actually tried this chair and how much they got paid to reviewed it. I do not recommend this chair to anyone.

Chair arrived in a box that showed considerable wear. Base of chair has significant scratches and the tension adjustment for the tilt does not engage cleanly. Very disappointed in purchase

We'll get to this X chair, but first - ever noticed something truly 'special' about the famous Aeron chair, the one used by the federal government in their offices? Here's what I noticed: 1. NO SERIOUS COMPETITION. C'mon, the Aeron chair headrest accessory alone costs $180 right now. Great chair but no serious competition, that's what's special about it. It's like the cable company in that regard. What's truly special about the X? - It's trying to disrupt the near-monopoly. So far it's making that steep climb. Herman Miller doesn't seem to change it's Aeron pricing one zinc penny, but soon will have to lower prices. Let's compare the two from the ground up and see just how difficult it is to challenge the mighty Aeron: A. Casters (wheels) - The ones on the Aeron are faster, meaning when you try to put just your feet up, you push the chair away (unless on carpet). The X has just as serious casters, not cheap ones, but they're slower so you don't roll when you don't want to. B. Pentagonal base - The one on Aeron is a metal that looks like a plastic, quite heavy; the one on X is polished aluminum and heavy but not as heavy. I like the one on Aeron slightly more because it's easier to use periodically as a footrest of sorts. They both look good in my opinion. C. The base under the seat that weighs so much in both chairs - The Aeron base is quite complex, you have to dust it in there but doing so helps one to appreciate why Aeron refuses to modify this model in any meaningful way. The X base is far more beautiful and also easier to clean, with a continuity to the polished aluminum frame for the back that supports the actual backrest. I don't know which is better even after giving it lots of thought. I kind of like the new direction that X went to by creating a polished aluminum spine and yet I'm not quick to dismiss the Aeron seat base since it at least used to be an engineering wonder. D. Controls - The Aeron has excellent controls that keep working. The X has controls that can be improved very soon so that they are as good. X plans to upgrade its current models so the chair one buys on Amazon should keep improving. E. Seat - I think the seats are equivalent in value although different in construction. The Aeron seat has a big plastic frame and a cushiony, almost spongy feel to the mesh seat. The X has a more serious ergonomic wrap that isn't spongy and has an even more pronounced front waterfall and of all things a back waterfall that's unique and surprisingly effective - and the X is not spongy but instead tight. The curved wrap of the X seat is what keeps it so tight. I think for office work the X might be better. The X has some tricks after all. F. Arms - Neither the Aeron nor the X got this right, but X seems to be fast to improve this very model. The Aeron doesn't permit the arms to be raised high enough even on the C size chair as if nobody is allowed to be over 5'11''; and the Aeron's arms flail in the 3 horizontal positions - one small shift in weight makes its arms point out. The X allows a series of notched height adjustments, but stops short of getting high enough - but since I got this chair X has put into the market a new part that fits on this chair and gets it more possible inches in height. But, but the X's arms need to be able to lock more securely, and X is about to bring those to market. The feeling of the X's arms jiggling a little bit really gets me, something X is in the process of changing for the better. Send it back to the engineers and patent attorneys, I say. See why it's so difficult to take on the Aeron? G. Armrests, how the material feels and looks - The Aeron wins this one but only by a little bit. And not for long. X will soon have better arms. H. Back - Finally X gets a major win over the apparently-complacent Aeron. Aeron has two types of backs and neither one works well in my opinion because neither has sufficient lumbar support. I never understood why Aeron gets away with this year after year. X has both the polished aluminum frame and the actual back mesh to beat the Aeron. The first thing X got right on this score is to allow the chair's back to be raised to the point where the lumbar piece can be properly placed on one's back unless one is over 6'1'' in which case one is one inch too tall for X and 4 inches too tall for Aeron in my view. X already has the part that fixes this and anybody can buy it if it wasn't included. Not only that, but X wisely divided the back mesh into two parts to avoid the annoying spongy feel of the Aeron back mesh. Aeron always tried to cover this up with it's posturefit and lumbar disaster piece. Here's what can happen to an Aeron chair: one small puncture, rip or tear anywhere in that large trampoline back will within a few months cause the entire back mesh to fail - and it's not covered in the warranty. The X has two separate and in fact stronger mesh parts in the back, dramatically reducing sponginess along with the possibility of catastrophic failure. Overall Summary: Take a look at the Herman Miller site on the Aeron page to see the title, "The Story Retold." That sums up the history of the Aeron. It started as by far the best office chair engineering in the history of the world and has been almost completely static ever since. Retelling the story ain't enough anymore. The Aeron, good as it is compared to nearly anything else out there, has major flaws as described. They never got the back right. They left the arms with half-measures. They're not made for tall people. Their warranty doesn't cover the actual mesh parts from normal wear and tear - seat or back. And it's overpriced, way, way overpriced just like the major cable companies since that's the essence of a monopoly. I think the price of the Aeron will go down fast once a competitor (looks maybe to be X) reaches high enough. The X is reaching but hasn't reached high enough. It earns 5-stars for reaching, because that's God's work. At its price the X should have arms that don't have lots of play in them. Its controls should be made to convey that they will last through years of use and even abuse. The armrests should be just a little bit more substantial.

I've been though a lot of chairs in my years. One thing I know is that it's not just how a chair feels the day it comes out of the box, it's how that chair feels as time goes on. So I held off on reviewing this X-Chair until I'd had to time to really use it, to break it in, and to see how it behaves over time. I'm happy to say that it holds up great. After a year of use, it feels like it did the day it came out of the box. The adjustments all work exactly as they should. The rollers are still smooth. The seat is still firm and supportive, as is the backrest. The precision of the parts that fit together, like the stem into the base of the chair, is still maintained, and the joint is still tight: No wobble, no jitter. So I can now say, with some certainty based on considerable use, that this chair holds up. That's something I have not been able to say about pretty much any other consumer chair that I've ever purchased. As for comfort, I'd call this chair as comfortable as any mesh based chair I've ever owned or used, and that includes even more expensive Herman Miller Aeron chair, which you find in a lot of upscale offices. I've never owned an Aeron, but I've had an Aeron assigned to me at work. So I (or more precisely my butt) have considerable experience with both. This X Chair is 100% competitive. Having all the adjustments for things like height, lumbard support and backrest position are great. Honestly, since I'm the one using this chair all the time, I set and forget those things (played with them the first day or two, found what I liked, never touched them again). But having those adjustments is great, and certainly a prime differentiator between this chair and the one you buy at your favorite office supply store for $100 on sale. (The other differentiators are the precision tolerances for the parts and how they fit together, and the quality mesh seat and back, which look identical today to when I took them out of the box). When you get the chair, it comes unassembled in a HEAVY box. Way heavier than those cheap chairs I mentioned above--another reflection of the quality construction. Putting it together is quite simple. Everything you need, including the Allen wrench, is included. You only need to to screw in a few bolts for assembly (see photo). It took me maybe 20 minutes to put it together, which included reading the instructions and getting the stuff out of the box. Anyone can do it. On the whole, this is a terrific chair. While it's a bit costly, it's also a far better chair than the cheap stuff. Based on my experience, it will last a very long time, and is probably an example of paying more up front, but getting something that will last and function properly for far longer than the cheap versions.

This chair would get 5 stars if the seat were wide enough. I am 6' 2" tall, 260 lbs and the seat is not wide enough. The dimensions of the seat include the hard plastic frame so you really do not have the full use of the stated width. my femur rests on the hard plastic frame on both sides and this is not comfortable. Other than the narrow seat the chair is well built, has fantastic lumbar support, and enough adjustments to fit most people smaller than me. If you are a tall person this chair is likely not for you. Useable seat area without touching the hard plastic frame is about 16.5 inches