Herman Miller x Logitech Gaming Chair Review: Five Years Later, I Still Love It

The Herman Miller x Logitech Embody is the seat that supported maine done lockdown successful 2020, and astir six years aboriginal it inactive feels astir brand-new. That's a rarity for the gaming chairs I've utilized successful the past, which person each shown disposable signs of deterioration – oregon adjacent genuine functional misfortune – aft akin timeframes. While the plan has remained the aforesaid ever after, Herman Miller and partners Logitech person produced caller colorways implicit the years, including an eye-catching navy/purple "Nova" combo positive the white/orange "Ignite" shadiness that precocious arrived astatine my doorstep.

That makes it a large clip to mull implicit precisely wherefore the Embody has remained my go-to option, contempt investigating a half-dozen different large gaming chairs successful arsenic galore years – galore of which travel with overmuch longer diagnostic lists, greater adjustability and much charismatic terms tags.

Design

The Embody Gaming Chair is simply a striking seat to look at, particularly successful immoderate of the wilder colorways available. Each two-tone plan highlights the astir skeletal operation astatine the backmost of the chair, with segmented brushed and stretchy integrative supported by bladed integrative ribs that gradually nexus up into larger assemblies and yet articulation onto the aluminum frame. Underneath the seat, a denser mesh of akin operation supports your weight.

Meanwhile, arms curve up from the basal of the chair, again with a much integrated signifier compared to the default racing-style bucket spot utilized by astir gaming seat manufacturers. This operation gives the Embody much flexibility than those different designs; arsenic you alteration presumption naturally, the seat stretches, supports and realigns.

The white/orange look stands out, and draws attraction to the design.

The beforehand of the chair, aka the spot that volition perchance look successful Zoom meetings, is overmuch much anonymous. Black oregon achromatic polyester cloth covers the backmost remainder and seat, with an highly subtle color-matched Logitech logo and a fewer textural ridges being the lone plan elements of enactment beyond the wide mildly curving shape. The apical of the limb rests are made of squidgy foam, and the five-star basal holds double-wheel casters of a humble (2.5-inch) size.

All told, the spot measures 29 inches wide, 41 to 52 inches precocious and 38 to 46 inches deep, portion the full tallness of the seat is 42 to 45 inches. With these dimensions and a maximum value capableness of 300 pounds, the Embody Gaming Chair is robustly constructed and should suit adjacent the large and/or tall, including my 6'2", 190 lb frame.

Assembly and Adjustability

I usually request to walk a batch of clip detailing the assembly process successful seat reviews, but thankfully I don't person to bash that here. That's due to the fact that the Embody is shipped afloat constructed, truthful you simply unfastened 1 look of the monolithic cardboard cube that arrives, and the seat rolls out, acceptable to go. You're near with a immense magnitude of cardboard to chopped down into tiny capable pieces that it'll acceptable into your recycling situation, oregon you tin permission it successful spot if you privation a king-sized container for your kids/cats/enemies to chill in. Still, versus different chairs that travel packed successful each mode of non-recyclable foam, polystyrene oregon different assorted guff, the Embody is mercifully casual to cleanable up after. Not having to walk an hr (or three) connected assembly is besides a monolithic plus.

Receiving a fully-assembled seat means that you get a immense magnitude of cardboard to recycle – but nary existent quantity of foam oregon different annoyingly nonrecyclable materials.

Once you've lugged the seat into position, you're escaped to acceptable it up, which is again rather straightforward arsenic the Embody's diagnostic database isn't miles long. A propulsion power connected the beforehand close broadside controls the hydraulics, letting you rise oregon little the chair, portion a dial successful the aforesaid spot controls the hostility of reclining. On the backmost right, you tin set the spot of the lumbar support, with the seat moving from being straight-backed to being much s-shaped. A paddle connected the near locks oregon unlocks the recline mechanism, and handles connected either broadside of the beforehand of the spot fto you widen the spot depth. Finally, the limb rests person tiny buttons hidden underneath; pushing them successful allows the arms to beryllium raised oregon lowered. You tin besides exert a small unit to propulsion the limb rests retired wide, oregon determination them person to your body.

It's each precise straightforward stuff, and yet there's plentifulness present that is unsocial successful its execution. The arms, for example, tin driblet truthful debased that you tin determination afloat underneath astir desks; normally, I'd person to wholly unbolt the arms and instrumentality them disconnected to follow my favored forearms-on-desk typing position. Likewise, moving the arms successful makes maine consciousness much cozy successful acold weather, particularly if I person a hoodie on, portion pushing them wider gives maine much country to wriggle successful warmer weather. The backrest adjustments look amended suited than astir successful pushing maine into an upright presumption that's really comfy for hours connected end, and being capable to widen the spot extent is superb for erstwhile I've got my ft up connected the desk's cross-brace.

Note the propulsion tab for tallness adjustment, and the grip to propulsion the spot retired further.

There's besides plentifulness that's not present compared to astir gaming chairs. The arm-rests aren't "4D", truthful they don't determination guardant oregon backwards oregon rotate broadside to side. The backmost of the spot ends astatine my shoulders, and there's nary caput rest. Similarly, there's nary quality to recline astatine astir 180 degrees.

I miss perfectly nary of these features. In fact, I'm actively gladsome that they haven't been included, arsenic their omission makes the Embody a shorter, much mobile seat that's easier to propulsion from 1 country to another, oregon acceptable nether a lasting table successful its upright position. The deficiency of a cervix remainder means that you really request to beryllium upright alternatively than doing a full-body slouch, and nary heavy recline means that you indispensable prevarication down connected a furniture oregon something, each of which consciousness similar they're overmuch amended for you. Indeed, I had reasonably atrocious backmost symptom disconnected and connected for years earlier getting the Embody, and it's been overmuch rarer since.

Still, immoderate of this volition travel down to idiosyncratic preference. I cognize immoderate radical that emotion to remainder their arms connected their chairs, and the Embody doesn't connection overmuch adjustability here. Likewise, if you are the benignant of idiosyncratic that likes to tilt mode backmost and look astatine the ceiling portion thinking, the Embody doesn't let for it. That doesn't marque it a atrocious seat by immoderate means, but arsenic with galore peripherals, it's arsenic overmuch a lawsuit of idiosyncratic request arsenic it is of nonsubjective measurement of quality.

Comfort and Performance

The Embody, similar different adjustable gaming oregon bureau chairs, volition instrumentality immoderate clip to get dialed in. While tallness and limb remainder presumption is apt thing you'll acceptable erstwhile and not interaction excessively often again, adjusting the spot of the lumbar enactment and however the seat reclines whitethorn necessitate immoderate experimentation. There are nary discrete notches to signify wherever successful a fixed settings' accommodation you are, and changing 1 mounting tin interaction another, truthful you whitethorn person to support tweaking things for a play of days oregon weeks earlier you're genuinely happy.

Still, what you're really changing is astatine slightest casual to understand, and astir radical that person tried the Embody – including my woman and friends that person stayed with america for a fewer days oregon weeks – ended up being rather blessed with wide comfortableness levels aft spending a time oregon 2 making adjustments.

Once acceptable up, the Embody is simply a stalwart companion for some moving and gaming. I effort to premix lasting and sitting erstwhile working, and having a seat that provides a bully magnitude of lumbar enactment portion besides fitting easy nether a lasting table makes things a batch easier. Similarly, having arms that driblet down debased capable to fto maine descent nether a table and enactment my look truly adjacent to the surface is perfect for Counter-Strike and different games that reward being capable to spot changes to conscionable a fistful of pixels.

On days wherever I'm being naughty and not lasting up astatine all, the Embody is supportive and comfy capable that I tin beryllium down for 4 hours, benignant up a clump of reviews, and get up without feeling successful pain. It's inactive evidently amended to instrumentality breaks, basal up, spell look astatine quality and truthful on, but for days wherever you request to fastener successful for immoderate reason, the Embody has been excellent.

Best of all, that comfortableness has persisted. I'm present astir half-way done the chair's 12-year warranty period, and my aged seat looks and feels astir identical to 1 delivered conscionable a fewer weeks ago. (Having said that, I truly bash request to vacuum immoderate of the fluff retired of the backmost of the seat.) That acquisition gives maine a unsocial accidental to urge a merchandise based connected existent semipermanent use, alternatively than a needfully little archetypal investigating period, and bash truthful with a existent measurement of confidence.

Will is erstwhile lawman tech exertion for IGN, specialising successful PC hardware, sim racing and show tech. He has been publishing astir games and exertion since 2001 (age 12). Will was formerly Deputy Editor astatine Digital Foundry. He is presently playing BattleTech Advanced Universe.