Seatcraft Equinox

Edit:I've had some quality issues with the chair in the last 6 months including finding magic marker marks on the leather that cant be removed, and the footrest ripped and left foam all over the house. However, customer service from 4seating has been phenomenal. They shipped me a new one shortly after I contacted them. Unfortunately, since I dont like the chair, I'm going to have to sell it now.Everything about this chair screams high quality - at first. Then you realize how bad it is when its too late and you just paid $1600 for the chair and the soundshaker amp. Every good quality of this chair has a negative side effect.- Love the LED lights. That is, until you have company or open it while watching a movie and everyone in the room is blinded by them. Seriously, that neon light is insanely bright to everyone else. Good thing it just shuts off at random on you.- Love the swivel table, until you realize that its practically impossible to eat from due to the position and it covers half of a cup holder. Also scratches very easily.- The electric recline - who could argue with that - except that the controls are nonsensical, and the chair itself makes this sound thats like the biggest fart you can imagine because of the leather panels rubbing together. But hey, the motor is quiet!! At least I think it is. Cant hear it over the massive fart sound. I hate getting up from this chair.- The memory function - works a couple of times and then just forgets your setting entirely. Suddenly you're flat on your back like youre at the dentist about to get a root canal.- The leather is great quality - nice and thick. I'd love it if my motorcycle jacket was made from it because it wouldnt scratch in a crash. For sitting on, its rough and somehow slippery at the same time. Not good. This is supposed to be top quality leather but its not soft or supple like it should be.- Comfort? Pretty much forget about it. This thing is hard and the padding barely gives. Its like sitting on a rock. I expected to be comfortable after paying $1200- Soundshaker is cool - but incredibly weak. It takes serious bass sounds coming from my receiver to even register on this thing. I have everything on the amp turned to the max.- The soundshaker receiver (I realize this is a different product, but I consider it part of the chair design to have included this product) - the receiver interferes with every other wifi device you have going in the house. Hope you dont like using your phone or tablet when watching tv.- The headrest - when you adjust it, it should support your neck, not push the top of your head forward. Who thought that would be a good idea?- The arm rests are only half as long as the arm of the chair, so its really more of an elbow rest while 60% of your forearm and hand just dangle from the end.- Bottom portion of the chair is tall. I.. am not. So my feet dangle.- The only fully positive thing I have to say about this chair is the storage in the arm rests.I should really try to send this thing back.

Buying online is a little risky, because you can't actually feel the material. This is my second online recliner, as I immediately returned the last one I bought. I decided to risk it one more time, and I'm not disappointed at all. However, from the pics, I was expecting buttery-soft leather, which it's not. It's a tough leather, like what you'd expect when looking at high-quality, real leather recliners. I'm probably a novice when it comes to knowing about leather, and all the different ways it can be finished, but I can tell that this leather is going to last a lifetime. Speaking of quality, this chair is rock-solid! I broke my last recliner, but I'm confident the Equinox will handle lots of abuse.One of the things that I thought could use a little design improvement, are the LED lights. - should have a separate switch to turn off the base light - should have a dimmer for the lightsThe base light is really bright! In my theater room, it would certainly be bright enough to throw off the colors on my projector screen. I've read posts about people adding a dimming cover, sold separately. I think that's a bandaid on the problem. I ended up cutting the zip ties holding the LED rope light on the bottom of the chair, flipping the rope to the other side of the bar it was on, then zip tyjng it in place. Made a huge difference, and it just took a couple minutes! Look through the pics to see how I did it, and the results.One other little gripe I have is the SoundShaker plug. It's set up to accept the proprietary plug from the matching amp, sold separately. It would've been nice if they added an open-ended plug to connect to an external amp. Intead, I'll have to it and replace the plug with a standard RCA plug, or bare POS/neg wires.Other than that, I'm really happy with this recliner! It's really comfortable, and I imagine the leather will soften over time. The price is actually less than many of the leather Lay-Z-Boy recliners I was looking at, and with way more bells and whistles. On top of all that, it's an absolutely beautiful chair! It looks so good in my living room, and makes everything else in the room look a little more classy! I'm definitely going with a row of these in the theater room, when I'm ready.

Perfect family room theatre seating. After visiting several local furniture stores, very unhappy with quality of products and was advised 12-14 weeks for ordering any higher quality seating. Turned to Amazon and found what seemed to be high quality theatre seating with all the options with delivery in just a few days. After unpacking, I was amazed at the quality of this product. Now that we have been using for over a month, I can say we made the right choice. Would purchase again, highly recommend.

I was looking for a recliner with "real" leather after the not-leather on my old recliner started flaking off everywhere after 4 years. Hopefully this one will stand the test of time.Assembly was easy -- just slide the back into the guides, connect two wires and plug in the power supply. The hard part is figuring out which side you want to use the tray on...The floor LED's are simply too bright to leave on while watching tv. It would be nice if the single lighting button worked like ceiling fan lights do -- push once to turn on/off and hold to cycle through dim/bright and save the setting.The tray table corners should be recessed on the mounting end so that you could still use the cup holder. Then if it would slide/extend out about 8 inches into the middle of the seat it would be perfect!The controls could use a simple instruction diagram -- maybe just added to the included assembly instructions. I've posted an operational graphic for anybody curious about the controls.-Dana