What are important features in a listening chair

This is the chair I use. To me it's the ideal listening chair. It's a bit pricey, but goes on sale a few times a year.

https://www.crateandbarrel.com/briarwood-leather-chair/s271157

I'm interested in relaxation while listening, so it has always been something akin to or exactly as a stressless design.

@dsotm073 - Have you seen the "Pelican Chair"? Looks like it blocks side-wall reflections before they reach you! 

That Gilrmartin Rocking chair is beautiful. It must have cost a small fortune, but to have it tailored to your body makes it worth it. We need more craftsman like that.

All the best,
Nonoise

I've got a shock-absorbing high-speed chair from a SEAL attack boat with a 15" Eminence driver attached under the seat. Bass you can truly feel, but hard on the prostate.

My custom made Gilmartin Rocking chair.  Sized to my body and much, much more comfortable then it looks.  Since it was sized to fit me, it offers great back support.  Difficult to get visitors out of the chair once they sit down.  Also looks outrageous. (The chair at the top.)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/55450639136286625/

It has to be a design that allows spikes to replace the original chair feet, so that it makes you mechanically grounded with the speakers when sitting in it. Especially beneficial with vibrations induced with higher DB's.
8^0   

Build style and materials is a personal thing, but the height it places your ears at is very important depending on the speaker type and design.

i.e. ESL/Planar speakers sound best when your ears are somewhere in front of the panels. (not above......... or below)

Box designs your ears should be close to level with the tweeter.  That's been my personal experience. 

+1 Stressless

I always thought this one version of the Eames looked cool:https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/fud/d/aluminum-aviation-eames-lounge-chair/6880860006.html

All the best,
Nonoise

gtechaudio60 nailed it. At least in the budget category. I had a very similar version of this. Light weight. Space-efficient. Supremely comfortable. Not only comfortable, but supports my head just about perfectly without coming up behind the ears. Rendering, needless to say, the irrelevant foam commenter irrelevant. Again.  https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S99903929/

At the top of the cost no object category is the Eames. https://store.hermanmiller.com/living/lounge-chairs-and-ottomans/eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman/1000...
But there's a hundred out there just like it, everything from $100 crap all the way up to better than Eames just minus the price tag. My fave is the Ekornes Stressless with Ottoman. 

I sit on the floor.
Thats how I have been listening since 1958 when my dad used to play them old 78s. I am 71 now, still sitting on the floor.

My mother works for Knoll so I am lucky enough to have both a Barcelona chair as well as a Womb chair. I prefer the Womb because of the way the fabric catches the reflections around my head. The Barcelona is no slouch either, but nothing beats the comfort that the Womb offers.

I would say that comfort would be THE most important aspect for a chair you plan on spending hours in. Also consider the way the fabric interacts with the imaging and reflections. 

I have an antique wicker chair with a comfortable cotton cushion and a small pillow for lower back support. Absolutely perfect for me.

Eames Lounge and Ottoman is my choice.
We have a pair of clones (widely available on Amazon in many grades of leather) in the music listening room (also good for reading and sharing coffee in the morning). We have three total, and they are great for the price. Authentic Eames loungers are still manufactured (by the original manufacturer licensed to produce by Eames). They are much better, but cost $5k+ depending on wood selection and leather choice.

I use a pair of these: http://www.ifn-modern.com/shop/chairs/lounge-chairs/pavilion-chair-ottoman.html
This Canadian outfit sourced a really top quality replica of the original Knoll chair. I've seen and sampled some really bad ones and sat on an original and it's very close.

All the best,
Nonoise

@dweller How were you misunderstood?
@larryi Wonder if there is a chair specifically deigned to "focus" the sound? Like a satellite dish...
@ivan_nosnibor I guess you listen alone :)
@elizabeth It be good speak listen

Wonder how using acoustic wool as a "stuffing" material can help with the chair being acoustically inert. 

Very happy with my Ekornes Stressless

Elizabeth, with you listening preferences I would have thought you’d have preferred German. Or maybe Italian. 

I am saving pennies for the ultimate chair in the world!!!!!

https://store.hermanmiller.com/living/lounge-chairs-and-ottomans/eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman/1000...

My chair is similar to jperry's except with a soft pillow back cushion.I reupholstered it a few years ago with a sturdy cotton fabric.Super comfy.

Try to avoid some fabrics like microsuede which can cause a static build up when you move to get up from it and then go to touch your gear, it can be hell on your digital in winter. Also I avoid the usual cheap leather substitutes than can creak and fart a lot when you even slightly move around on it, making things a bit noisy.

If there's going to be any creaking and farting going on in my listening room, I prefer it to come just from me.

I have 2 of this chair in my listening room, and two small ottomans

https://m2.ikea.com/us/en/p/jaeppling-armchair-kimstad-dark-brown-10370741/

Low-back chairs will reduce reflections from the chair itself affecting the sound.  That, at least in theory, makes them preferable to chairs with headrests that stick out to the side.  But, in practice, I don't mind the sound when sitting in a comfortable chair with a high-back headrest.  The sound seems well focused when I sit in these types of chairs.

I have a large leather arm chair with ottoman. I'd say that for me comfort is the number one priority. No matter what a chair means to the acoustic equation if it isn't pleasant to sit in then its useless.

It has a high back, but I am tall. I can sit with my head fully above the back or slumped down so that the back is higher than my head. There is no sonic difference whatsoever.

Totally misunderstood (as usual).

I use a Herman Miller office chair at the moment, with a low back, but I feel like I'm in a classroom listening to my teacher... To make it even more comfortable, I have had to add a cutting board on top of the cushion to help with my sciatica. So, I've been wanting something more comfortable. @geoffkait  Agree re: Puang, considered it for a brief second, but then realized I would be basically putting a pillow behind my head, and thats no good... 

@dweller Would really like some head/neck support also as I have a bad neck and lower back - thank you reckless youth - but don't want to have the headrest part interfering to the sound as per @whostolethebatmobile.

Am thinking of something with a light mesh, but curious if that will cause any diffraction of the sound or if it would work more like a speaker grill cloth and be "mostly" transparent.

The IKEA Puang Chair takes a lot of heat from yours truly due to the foam they use in the chair. It’s a Trojan Horse. It might be the worst thing ever foisted on gullible naive audiophiles. Makes the sound all weird and phasey like. Very reminiscent of SONEX, another sonic catastrophe.

perkri -
yes, but more so that the sound does not reflect from the back of the chair directly into my ears. Also, I want to hear the back wall reflections to give a realistic audible impression of my visual surroundings. I like the audio-visual environment to be integrated. Otherwise, I might as well just use headphones.

My ideal chair is what you would find in a dentist office. Has the headrest that covers the back of your skull and that's about it. A built-in motor to vibrate with bass frequencies (without the sound) for apartment-dwellers would be nice. Cover mine with alligator, please...

Thanks.

I gather so the back of the chair does not effect sound as it moves through the room? 

Do you have any pref. re: materials used and/or adjustability?

My biggest requirement is the back of the chair should not rise above shoulder level.