Next best thing to Herman Miller Aeron chair?

[Engineer]

I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )

Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.

[Scott Dorsey]

Engineer <ProMusicuity@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
>Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )

Can you afford $200 for a used one? Prices aren't as low as they were
during the depths of the internet bust, but there are still a lot of
used ones out there.

>Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.

I really, really like kneeling chairs. Not too many of them made these
days other than the Balans, though.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[nuke]

<< I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )

Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.


>><BR><BR>


I just got a Aeon from my ergonomics department. They had a few other chairs to
try out, but being a big guy (6'3" and somewhat overweight) the Aeon fit me
best. Some of the others weren't bad.

Don't let it go too long. I did. First, it was just my tail-bone that hurt.
After a few months of sitting in the wrong chair, I developed sciatic nerve
pain, likely from a herniated disk. That's what happens when you sit too long
in a bad posture.


--
Dr. Nuketopia
Sorry, no e-Mail.
Spam forgeries have resulted in thousands of faked bounces to my address.

[Todd H.]

ProMusicuity@hotmail.com (Engineer) writes:
> I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
>
> Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.

There are really only two chairs on the market I like:
The Bodybilt J757
Herman MIller Aeron

Neither are cheap. I'd be interested in the answer your your question
too... that used market idea was a really good one, I think.


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[Graham Duncan]

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
news:bi4ahn$qhq$1@panix2.panix.com...
> Engineer <ProMusicuity@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> >Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
>
> Can you afford $200 for a used one? Prices aren't as low as they were
> during the depths of the internet bust, but there are still a lot of
> used ones out there.
>
> >Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.
>
> I really, really like kneeling chairs. Not too many of them made these
> days other than the Balans, though.
> --scott

Global makes one, available at Office Depot.

Graham

[Blind Joni]

>I really, really like kneeling chairs. Not too many of them made these
>days other than the Balans, though.
>--scott

I use one sometimes but after a short while it makes my knees itch and
uncomfortable.


John A. Chiara
SOS Recording Studio
Live Sound Inc.
Albany, NY
www.sosrecording.net
518-449-1637

[Jon Best]

Yeah, but Scott's putting, what, 60 pounds on each knee? For me it's a
little more...

--
Jon Best
Muddy Creek Audio
"Blind Joni" <blindjoni@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20030822131434.02607.00000321@mb-m23.aol.com...
> >I really, really like kneeling chairs. Not too many of them made these
> >days other than the Balans, though.
> >--scott
>
> I use one sometimes but after a short while it makes my knees itch and
> uncomfortable.
>
>
> John A. Chiara
> SOS Recording Studio
> Live Sound Inc.
> Albany, NY
> www.sosrecording.net
> 518-449-1637

[Justin Ulysses Morse]

Engineer <ProMusicuity@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.


Sit up straight, lose weight, and get in shape. And quit sitting in
front of that damn computer for days at a time.

ulysses

[Richard Whisnant]

bmiawmb@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote in message news:<m0y8xlhijz.fsf@rcn.com>...
> ProMusicuity@hotmail.com (Engineer) writes:
> > I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> > Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
> >
> > Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.
>
I've been happy with a bungee chair, similar to the one pictured at
http://www.artfurnitureontheweb.com/Frames/Items/040180.html

although I got mine at a local retailer and recommend doing that,
since YMMV.

Very comfortable, adequately adjustable, and not a giant looming
presence in the control room.

[EganMedia]

Allsteel #19

I got one for father's day and it is truly amazing. My wife paid something
like $650 for a floor demo from the local Boise Cascade store. There is an
Aeron in another studio down the hall from me which pales in comparison.


Joe Egan
EMP
Colchester, VT
www.eganmedia.com

[Roger W. Norman]

****, go to any woman's furniture area where they have the makeup section
(vanities, whatever these things are called) and stuff. Plenty of kneeling
chairs. My wife has one. Had I really thought about it when I was
younger....! <g>

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
Purchase your copy of the Fifth of RAP CD set at www.recaudiopro.net.
See how far $20 really goes.




"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
news:bi4ahn$qhq$1@panix2.panix.com...
> Engineer <ProMusicuity@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> >Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
>
> Can you afford $200 for a used one? Prices aren't as low as they were
> during the depths of the internet bust, but there are still a lot of
> used ones out there.
>
> >Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.
>
> I really, really like kneeling chairs. Not too many of them made these
> days other than the Balans, though.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Engineer]

Justin Ulysses Morse <ulysses@rollmusic.com> wrote in message news:<230820030351154291%ulysses@rollmusic.com>...
> Engineer <ProMusicuity@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.
>
>
> Sit up straight, lose weight, and get in shape. And quit sitting in
> front of that damn computer for days at a time.
>
> ulysses


You mean quit recording and drop down UNDER 130 lbs?? damn... I guess
a crack binge would work...

[WSpeckmann]

After more than 20 painful years on kneeling chairs (and others) I finally
found t h e o n e :

The Swopper.

Have a look at swopper.de or swopper.com. ( I'm not related to the company in
any way !!)
You have to get used to it first - it's a very "active" way of sitting.
I bought mine ( a friend had one already ) a couple of months ago after another
four painful weeks of backproblems.
Two days later they were gone - amazing.
It's about 550 Euro here in Germany (worth every cent!)

The only problem I had so far: a customer complained: "Will you please stop
hopping and wiggling all the time - makes me really nervous ..."

Cheers
Walter

[BC]

In article <515d31a5.0308230328.6eca6fd4@posting.google.com>,
recordist@room2b.com says...
> bmiawmb@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote in message news:<m0y8xlhijz.fsf@rcn.com>...
> > ProMusicuity@hotmail.com (Engineer) writes:
> > > I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> > > Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.
> >
> I've been happy with a bungee chair, similar to the one pictured at
> http://www.artfurnitureontheweb.com/Frames/Items/040180.html
>
> although I got mine at a local retailer and recommend doing that,
> since YMMV.
>
> Very comfortable, adequately adjustable, and not a giant looming
> presence in the control room.
>

Can you remove the arms?

[xy]

???
Isn't this kind of like mattresses? I would think it would be largely
preference. I just got a swivel chair for $39 that rules. I couldn't
imagine spending $600 on a chair. We'll I could imagine it, but it
would be immediately eclipsed by another buy-decision. But I can sit
in just about any chair all day long, so I guess I'm not up against
this kind of challenge.

Scott D. has one advantage on us: those kneeling chairs are ultra low
profile so they won't create sound baffles in your mixing area. But I
always felt I had to "pay attention" too much in those chairs to the
actual "art of sitting".

I guess if I ever hit the big time, I now know what the "cool guy"
chair is for poser value. I wonder if Armani makes chairs?


ProMusicuity@hotmail.com (Engineer) wrote in message news:<852c9a08.0308212120.1b7c6e3@posting.google.com>...
> I need a great chair and I cant afford $600 or more for a Herman
> Miller (though I will some day, mark my words :) )
>
> Any suggestions? My back and ass hurts.

[Psy]

wspeckmann@aol.com (WSpeckmann) lost his marbles in
news:20030825050344.21828.00000995@mb-m07.aol.com:

> The Swopper.

At the local office of Ogilvy and Mather they have a meeting room where the
only seating is Swoppers. It's very strange being in a *serious* discussion
where everyone is bobbing up and down like corks in water.

--
Paul Russell
Muso, Producer, Songwriter, Renowned Wit and all round Egotist
www.calamitypop.com

[Richard Whisnant]

Q: > Can you remove the arms?

I think so. Looks like they're each attached with two allen bolts that
can be reached behind rubber inserts, and it doesn't appear that the
arms are structural parts of the chair. But I haven't tried it, so I'm
not sure. One of the cool things about the design is that each little
piece, down to the individual bungees, seems to be modular and
separately attached, so you could replace them fairly simply.