It is Okay, read all these comments before deciding.
Some points:<br />Chair is very large, taller than any normal recliner and when it reclines back, it needs a good two feet open behind it... definitely not a wall hugger!<br />The documentation is pretty bad, barely English and in an odd order, like how to use it comes before how to assemble it<br />Assembly wasn't bad at all, but note that the chair is very heavy!  You will need help moving it if any stairs at all are in play.  Took two strong guys to lift it up two steps from garage to house.<br />The control panel is fixed on right side, and the keys are not lit, so I find it difficult to read the key labels in normal room lighting at night.<br />The controls are really kludgy... you really don't know what you are doing or what effect it really has.  It runs these scenarios that you choose from... but then there are many controls for specific functions and I can't tell when I'm modifying a scenario or when I'm turning the scenario off and doing something else... the organization of the buttons is confusing at best<br />The startup procedure does a calibration, but you can't tell what you should be adjusting it to... no instructions on it ... it only says to sense your back and you adjust... but to what?<br />And the movable head or neck massaged: no instructions on how to adjust it properly... it seems that it should be obvious where to put the neck section, but it isn't ... shoulders?  Neck? Lower skull?  You can do any of these but I can't tell what is correct...<br />Chair is good for my 6'2&#34; height... that was a big concern, but no problem... the foot section expands and I could definitely be even taller.<br />Oddly, my 5'2&#34; wife is not tall enough for the chair to fit properly... her feet don't reach the foot rollers!<br />The massage: I'm finding it to be pretty good heat on my back, and the kneading of my back.  The stretching modes do seem to work, but I think they could have more potential if the chair was programmed differently...  it could stretch you more and better but it seems to have bugs in this area... for example, what it does is grab you laterally with airbags and then recline the chair which then stretches your spine in theory.  What's old is that it doesn't activate the best shoulder bags, and the leg air bags grab you on the shins extremely tightly (actually hurts) but the shin bags don't let go until way after the other bags release, even as it goes back to upright, which feels a bit like it will break your legs... definitely do not wear jeans as the seam on the jeans digs in with the high air bag pressure.<br />It comes with headphones and will play MP3 from a USB stick... kinda cool, but note the controls are terrible... it tends to repeat songs and there is no mode to set that so I find I have to skip forward after every song.  And most of the modes inflate the &#34;stupid&#34; air bags around your neck or head area making the headphones come off... you have to play with controls to find something that doesn't use those bags if you want to listen.<br />Othernthan the stretching, the airbags seem like they aren't worth that much for massaging.<br />I am finding I really just like the bag kneading and heat..  which I probably could have bought a chair at half or third of the price and gotten those features just as well.  The extra money for this chair may not be worth it for some or many.<br />All said, I'm glad I have a massage chair, but honestly I wish I had bought a cheaper one with less features and a smaller chair that didn't use so much room.<br />But it does work....
Rating: 3 stars