Let me start by saying I conducted an exhaustive research of massage chairs before finally going all out on the Alfine A860 Athena Dual Mechanism Massage Chair-2025 Flagship.
I have considerable neck, back, feet problems due to my damanding job. I used to see a chiropractor and massage person almost weekly to relieve my daily pain.
My first exposure to a massage max chair was their model MD906 (a 3D one massage roller chair) which my chiropractor purchased for his office.
I had never used a massage chair type like this and I really enjoyed the massage it gave me.
I had full intent on buying that exact chair.
When I started my online research I went down a rabbit hole, quickly realizing there were so many different styles and types of massage chairs available. Prices ranged from $1000-$20,000. The more research I did always brought me back to Massage Max chairs.
I compared every chair they offered to each other, and those chairs to every other competitors chair online.
Needless to say the Alfine A860 Athena Dual Mechanism Massage Chair-2025 Flagship had every option you could think of at one of the best prices available in the market. (This is also a dual roller massage component 4D+3D.)
From the massagemax website I located a local dealer 60 miles from my home. I drove to that store and met Mr. Liu who was more than helpful at explaining all of the chairs options offered. He even had competitors chairs on sight to compare as well. I sat in multiple chairs and realized that the cheaper chairs are fine for basic massage, but are no comparison to the more expensive chairs dual roller massage.
Mr. Liu also does maintenance on all the types of massage chairs and one of the major selling points to buying the A860 was that Mr. Liu showed me the internal moving parts contained in each of the massage chairs.
The parts built into the cheaper chairs were no match to the more expensive chairs Internal parts.
You could clearly see the more expensive chairs we__e going to last for years with no issues, when the cheaper chairs were almost guaranteed not to last for more than a few years without major replacement parts.
The other major selling point to the A860 was that this chair carries almost double the warranty of other chairs.
The only NEGATIVE to this chair is it only comes in black lacquer with either black or red interior.
The POSITIVE is it__ an all leather chair which is comparable to a top sports car feel.
The chair comes with 22 massage options and over the air updates. I honestly couldn__ see a need for anymore options than this. I actually prefer to choose my own massage options through the manual mode so I can max out the air and roller pressure.
Best time to buy this chair was during Black Friday and Christmas sales but it doesn__ hurt to ask a seller what they can do for you.
If you order from manufacturer directly you can also avoid taxes which will save you several hundred as well.
Shipping and delivery were a breeze because I also had Mr. Liu and his team deliver, install and put the parts together.
I honestly love everything about this chair and have no regrets on spending the extra thousands from the cheaper chairs. I now save hundreds a month on human massages and avoiding my chiropractor now that I have this chair doing both their jobs at once.
