First day impression and details and manual
Hi just received my order of style 1 chair, the black “space tub egg escape pod” bestmassage chair.<br />Seems a day or two after ordering I got a text with a phone number to call and they found a date I’d be home and gave me like a 2 hour delivery window.<br />The chair sat on 2 wood strips in a bag and padding inside a heavy cardboard box.<br />It chair looks just like the amazon ad even though I believe the model number is a bit different, the manual is correct.<br />The imitation leather textured vinyl looks better than in the ad I think because I wasn't sure it was upholstered on the sides and it is there too.<br />The chair is solid, nothing feels of flimsy cardboard at all but I don't let anyone sit on the arms or abuse it.<br />I’m glad it’s not high maintenance real expensive leather.<br />I’ve uploaded the main pages of the manual for your viewing, the simple assembly info is in the last pages.<br />I believe others have said the side arms can be easily removed if needed although the manual does not say this and I just barely got it through the door sideways out of the box with 3 people without having to remove anything. We did risk damaging the upholstery because it was pretty tight, so I'd advise to remove the arms if you can if it's pretty tight don't force it.<br />It looks just like the picture and I’ll try to give an update after some time.<br />I have a kill a watt meter and it shows the stand by watts used is 1.7 which isn’t bad although i have read ideal is under 1 watt. In use it consumes around 50 watts with heat selected as well although the manual says 100 watts so any outlet can power this chair.<br /><br />It has a small outlet 24v transformer so the chair electric system can’t shock a user as our skin can resist that low so that is safe too.<br />The Bluetooth speakers on each outside are satisfactory and very basic simple with no control on the chair or wire or jack to attach to, you just find it in your phone’s search and it pairs. My phone volume turned all the way up can fill the room alright with music, this could perhaps really serve someone in a small room so they don't need a stereo system for their music needs.<br />All you have to have is the chair plugged in.<br />It fills the room with the sound of a small stereo with some alright base even and no distortion to say.<br />It’s odd the speakers face outside instead of inside the chair but it works and can double as music for the room anytime desired seems to be the concept.<br />I can't say the bluetooth connection will work all the time you get in the chair because I don't use the speakers much and I did have an occasion where I had to turn the main power stitch off at the back and back on to get the bluetooth to connect to my phone so I haven't played around with it to learn it's ins and outs.<br />The build in left panel controls on the chair are basic and display the run time up to 30 min and also A1 through A6 when the auto button is pressed. The manual says to not run it more than 30 min continuously, then you just need to give it 15 min off to let the motors cool/rest is what it says. So if you get it, don't let too many people line up and try it out without a rest.<br /><br />The right side wired remote control is large and much more elaborate and includes a colorful detailed digital display and options like being able to raise or lower the legs unit by themselves to about 45 degrees, this is done by an airbag between the leg unit and chair.<br />In fact you can move the leg unit and or the chair back without turning on the chair massage functions.<br />Also when the chair is off, it can be sat in a bit like a regular chair because the rollers part at the top under the flip in place when desired head pad.<br />Although you may want more padding if sitting for a while stationary just add a lounge chair pad etc<br />Although your legs movement is a bit restricted as well as your body might make long sits odd.<br />The leg foot rest can not be slid out of the way although I suppose you could completely remove or leave it off and plug the air lines if you wanted to....but then you should perhaps buy a lessor chair.<br /><br />The control buttons are not illuminated, it would be nice if they were but just a minor complaint when using in a dark room and very sensitive to touch as if they were a touch pad and there is always a beep sound when a button is pressed unless the button is not effective for that auto program mode you may be enjoying as some buttons only pertain to manual mode.<br />Assembly was easy, the foot rest attachment pins now have pull spring instead of the removable clip some complained about figuring out.<br />There is a plug and 2 air line tubes to plug together under the leg foot rest.<br />Everything is shipped in one large box.<br />The chair can recline just a bit more than zero gravity or you can leave it up while enjoying the massages.<br />There are Velcro and also zippers for some of the pieces which is nice in that you can get access to and also add more foam if you ever so desired like in the head pad or under the main back seat panel.<br />The main back seat area has a Velcro pad and under that is a zippered fabric panel and under that is a center hammock like strap that serves as support, you can see the 3 motors and 4 rollers exposed at this point and looks reasonably simple and roomy inside where the tract runs the rollers.<br />So far this is a great chair for $800 and it’s very obvious that the chairs selling for many many thousands of dollars are well over priced for rich cats to throw their money at it seems other companies have really cornered the market and are stubborn on the price.<br /><br />I’ve read reviews on very expensive chairs and the reliability and satisfaction is no better than the reviews for this chair is what I got out of all the reading from others.<br />Yes the 6000 dollar chair may have a better warranty but when the warranty is over how much are they going to want for parts when they charge so much for the chair to begin with?<br />This chair is the real deal I’d say not for frail people it’s not a stationary vibrating motors points similar priced chairs that look kind of like this one, no this one does actually have the S track that the rollers move on up and down your body as they do the different options and it really is nice that it goes down past your ass is a real pleasure.<br />Vibrating chair pads can be very nice and all some people want and that is great but this is more deep and pressing for those that want that.<br />If you don't want the legs massage, I did see, I believe this same company, makes a like gaming chair that has the shiatsu S track but no legs but it might not fit large people but it is even less in price.<br /><br />The foot roller is strong but you can move your feet so that it’s not on the sensitive area or put heavy socks on.<br />The extend stretch setting is very interesting as it grabs your legs and with the air bags and then draws the legs down while moving the body up, I like this setting for new users to surprise them LOL.<br /><br />Update after a 3  months:<br />We still like it and it does impress adult friends who enjoy sitting in it and you can chat with them as they enjoy it.<br />I am surprised that none of these rollers on a track chair companies, even the super expensive ones, seem to install the stationary vibrating motors from those inexpensive massage throw on a regular chair pads that are sold in common local stores to go with the shiatsu moving track so that we would get the massage rollers with it's actions and the little cheap stationary motors vibrating could really up the game and the happy sighs and moaning of the user whole body at once LOL.  Perhaps I will try putting the affordable vibrating pad on top of the massage chair and sitting in them and turning them both on and see! LOL<br />It's important to destress our bodies and treat our body to give it the space and time it needs to rejuvenate and unfortunately we aren't yet taught how to quiet our obsessive internal thinking that is causing a lot of our stress to begin with in our daily lives, massage devices of whatever type you buy might help and there's so few pleasures in the adult world so why not.<br /><br />Well I feel empty of anything else to say, that’s it for now.<br />Take care of yourself!<br />Xo
Rating: 4 stars