Sihoo V1 Vs Ergohuman Mesh

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  Drakesy on 07/04/2025 - 09:38

  +2

  I picked up one of these off Kogan as an el cheapo version of the ergohuman and think it's great.

  Mesh throughout is a gamechanger. Would fork out the money for the ergohuman w/leg rest.

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  RobBoss on 07/04/2025 - 19:34

  I don't know much about the others, but I got the Ergohuman mesh with leather seats a while back, and it is a nice chair. The split lumbar design might provide you with a bit more comfort, and I reckon it is just marginally better. You are right on the mesh touching the plastic support, though, and that might increase wear and tear. Other than that, build quality is superb and I'm glad I got rid of my crappy "gaming" chair.

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  CaptainJack on 07/04/2025 - 23:11

  I've got an ergo human. Personally I think it's not bad but build quality doesn't seem that good for the price. So not sure I'd recommend it unless you've exhausted other options. Solid 3.5 stars.

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  quanticism on 08/04/2025 - 11:01

  I'm pretty 50/50 between the Sihoo and Ergohuman so far but I'm starting to lean towards the Ergohuman

  Potential pros of the Ergohuman Elite 2:
  - Mesh instead of PU leather for headrest and legrest means you don't have to worry about it melting in the long term
  - I saw this comment about its footrest: "It's deployed not by extension, but by unfolding. And this allows it to be fixed in intermediate positions. So you can set it to keep your knees bent, which feels more comfortable to me."
  - It's ability to fold part of the armrest up to support your army when reading a tablet or mobile may also be potentially useful
  - I saw a comment about the Sihoo V1's mesh sagging a little bit (but it stabilized aftewards). Not a significant sample size but it makes me wonder about the quality of mesh between the two. I never realized that sagging mesh was an issue since there's no noticeable sag on my 13 year old mesh chair.

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    quanticism on 09/04/2025 - 19:12

    +1

    Started to feel like I was wasting too much time looking at the two so I just pulled the trigger on the Ergohuman 2 Elite Mesh with Legrest for $989 incl shipping. We'll see how it goes.

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      Suprahoward on 14/05/2025 - 20:25

      Any update? cheers

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        quanticism on 15/05/2025 - 00:37

        +1

        My initial impression after swapping to it after daily driving my old chair for 13 years is that this mesh is a lot bouncier - that makes me wonder if mesh loses bounce after long term usage or if my old chair's mesh was always like that cause I still don't see noticeable sag there. The lumbar support actually feels like it does something now. In comparison, it felt like my old chair's lumbar support was either not forward enough or I had my chair depth out too far.

        The mesh is also a lot more scratchier than my old chair but maybe that'll become less prominent over time. Regardless, I'm already used to it.

        The footrest being mesh is a pretty massive downside. The mesh needs to be woven to an awkward shape with some corners unsupported by anything - who knows how long that'll last. But more importantly, the upper half of the footrest is mesh right over a piece of plastic. That hard plastic is very unpleasant to rest your ankle against when you're lounging around and want to fold your legs a bit, which moves your feet up onto that plastic. I'd take fake leather over this any day. Also the 2-fold mechanism is okay to use but I haven't found a use case for only half folding it atm so I would have been content with the simple pull-straight-out mechancism that the Sihoo uses.

        The armrests being able to bend upwards to support your elbows when looking at a phone hasn't been useful for me yet, but I rarely read my phone/tablet on my chair. I will say that I do accidentally bend it up every now and then when lounging with one leg on the chair - since my leg pushes it up. So it's a bit annoying to constantly need to pull it all the way up so it resets back down.

        Similarly, it's also annoying that the lumbar support, headrest and armrest height adjustment have no lock so sometimes I accidentally push them too high. And they all need to be pulled to their max height in order to bring it back down, which makes fixing it even more annoying. Granted it mainly happens to the armrest (both incline and height) so the other 2 are not as big an annoyance.

        With the seat, I noticed that sometimes I feel a bit of discomfort or pressure in my thighs. I imagine this pressure is what some people feel from the Herman Miller chair's raised lip but to a lesser extent. This chair's lip definitely doesn't look raised but I suspect it's because I sink into the mesh more than my old chair (hence the bouncier feeling) resulting in the lip area effectively being higher. Not a massive issue and I'll probably get used to it.

        This chair has a "forward" incline which I guess might be helpful to provide lumbar support if you're hunching over when writing (who does that now). It does make it slightly more annoying to lock the backseat in the standard upright position because the default is this forward incline so you have to push it slightly backwards before locking it.

        The edges of the plastic base are a lot thinner than my old chair, and my old chair's plastic base under the chair lip cracked in the middle like ~5 years in. I never noticed an impact so it ended up just being an aesthetic quirk. Hopefully the plastic being thinner won't become an issue here too.