This is my very wet audio dream over the years. I never had a good Chair. My room never allowed me to do so but as I will be moving my wet dream about a perfect listening Chair begin to erect my imagination.

Now I have nice leather couch… I like it as a couch but I hate it as listening place. Couch focus sound via reflection but this is only a part of problems. Couch doe not naturally fix the heat at single proper spot.  This is why I seldomly listen music in my home at my sweep spot. – it is not very relaxing posture.

A good listening Chair does it all. It might be position in acoustically isolated location.  It has no acoustically-reflective boundaries above upper part of body. It is superbly comfortable and let you to sit or to lie very easily. It has all remote navigation controls over the entire playback….

A good listening Chair allow to listen music in the Boundary Mode - the ceremonial, supernatural, semi-meditative state of being where your body is virtually sleeps but your consciousness is super-sharp and very alerted…..

I do not have my beloved listening Chair but as soon I get my new listing room then my listening Chair will be the very first and the very cherished item of my attention…

Stitch, funny picture, I was laughing…

Op.9, I was searching the Lafuma Magic at the site you line and I did not find any.  I do not like the Lafuma’s idea their chairs are light and this back support is too toll.  But you never know as some chairs feel remarkably comfortable when you put your ass in them. Still, I would like to have a shallow chair with wide arms and that would weight no less the myself.

I for instance like the CinemaTech’s Embassy Chair

http://www.mycinematech.com/Seating/Embassy/index.html

It might not look sexy but it feels ridiculously comfortable when sat in it and it has very-very good NATURAL restriction of a head in a very narrow sweat spot. I think I will be looking something along with those ideas.

There is also the whole notion of Zero Gravity Chair that was initially developed by NASA during their SkyLab program. There are few companies that make “Perfect Chair - Zero Gravity” but they not too much accommodated for sound as they have too tall back support…

http://www.humantouch.com/pc006-view-18.html

More on plastic-seat-sweat-syndrome later.

Looking at the Cinematech Embassy, and reading the comments about its ability to support one's head, I conclude the ideal seat may not require a head support that goes all the way up behind the head... This was exactly my thinking when I bought one of these :

http://www.espacecanape.com/produit.php?categorie=fauteuils&modele=Faubourg=Fauteuil&id=26

In the low position, the head support is not quite high enough to keep one's head from falling back, but can be raised exactly as required. Ideally, the armrests would be closer to the center, but on the birghter side, there is space for listener + feline friend.

Motivations for the purchase were the following: 

1) Scale appropriate for large occupants (its not visually dwarfed by large people).

2) Features a reclining back, and an adjustable head support (click on the "AUTRES VUES" button), 

3) Comes standard upholstered in thick wool fabric (a sort of felt); this fabric breaths, and is far more comfortable than suffocating in leather or vinyl in front of hot amps.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M619sDp4oyI/SUlMauvRYTI/AAAAAAAABSw/LkeSkCSFecY/s400/southern+culture+on+the+skids.jpg

Wool will not be 100% martini or Cohiba-proof, and will likely attract furry creatures, but in the event of a serious mishap, or just normal wear, the factory is set up to take back and re-upholster/service anything they make (the frame will last for ever; welded from heavy, large-section metal tube).  

Which brings us to a possible snag; I'm not sure this thing is available in the US; Steiner is an 80+ year-old French company... I think its still family-owned (the founder was hauled away by the Nazis, and died not long after his release); but I'd be willing to bet they'd accommodate an over-seas sale. If not, there are ways...

jd*

Yes, Jessie, you get the idea correct. If a chair positions the upper body “properly” (whatever it means) then the upper part of body with attached to it head has no other way to go then to stick naturally out of the chair and does not need any head support. I think k the key in here is to find a configuration of the lover pat of body that would make a person so comfortable and so firm in the chair that would eliminate a need or an opportunity to move the head. The Cinematech Embassy in my view is a perfect example but Cinematech do not produce it anymore.

The Le fauteuil Faubourg chair looks good but I feel that the top part of the back is a bit too tall.  Also the chair is too wide and does not do the body’s self-centering.  I do what to hear the back side of the room and I am planning to position chair far from the back wall.  I have some very interesting and quite original ideas how to USE the space behind the chair – I will talk about it what I will be there. Meanwhile, if to look over the collection of the same espacecanape.com that you provided that I think this chair might be more suitable for my objectives: Fauteuils Confident

http://www.espacecanape.com/produit.php?categorie=fauteuils&modele=Confident&id=30

Unfortunately it is absolutely impossible to judge how comfortable chair  is until you sit in it…

The Cat

Here is a Listening Chair that I think might be very good:

http://www.liftchairs-store.com/p/jack-cartwright-joe-lounge-chair

Jack Cartwright’s site is here:

http://www.jackcartwright.com/pages/products/lounge.html

The only problem with this Chair that I never sat in it and I have no idea how deep butt sinks into it. You see, the comfort of Chair is very important BUT also it is important how comfortable to stand up from a chair. I need to find where can I try to sit into the Jack Cartwright’s Chair.

I stopped by this morning in my local furniture shop to look for chairs and the very first one that I saw I felt in love with. It is Ekornes Manhattan chair, pleasantly comfortable and superb for listening objectives: low back, perfect fixation of head in vertical and horizontal plane while keeping a relaxed posture

https://www.copenhagenfurniture.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=593

It is not even ugly!

So, in replacement of my egotistic single listening chair we decided to make it more like “living room” arrangement, organizing it to one couch, two chairs and a table. I very much welcome to this idea, in fact we did some prototyping with the couches and chairs that we have and I do like the result.

Stitch wrote:

The normal audiophile has a problem when he marries first and wants to add a good Stereo System later. One of my friends did it right, he bought his system first and married later, before he did that he showed all to his girlfriend and said "You know, what was first...." Never a problem. His long, fat Cardas Wires are all over the living room and when visitors enter the room, his wife tells them to take care of the cables and not to to touch his Turntable... You had your chance :-)