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Massage chairs are a competitive market and to of the biggest powers are Sanyo and Panasonic. We compare two of their higher and chairs and a back to back breakdown. The SA 5000 is the contender from Sanyo and the Panasonic 30004 is the heavyweight from Osaka. We will match up some of their top-notch features and layout their warranty coverage.

Let’s roll with the SA 5000 from Sanyo and its impressive feature list. This massage chair boasts some amazing mechanical technology. The GK roller system is Sanyo’s leg up on the competition. This roller system can literally reach over your shoulders. It provides a great massage that relieves tension in the shoulders and neck.

The contender also comes with some fantastic features from Panasonic. The 30004 comes with the Junetsu massage. The Junetsu massage provides for deep tissue relief and releasing of knots in the back. The soothing circular motions along with increases in pressure soothe the entirely through the muscle region.

Sanyo has incorporated a new stiffness massage. The stiffness massage is to relieve tension in the muscles. This massage is especially targeted for the shoulders and neck. With the use of their proprietary GK roller mechanism, Sanyo is able to provide a gripping massage around the neck and shoulder area. This can provide needed relief and relaxation.

The Panasonic 30004 is stocked with five automatic programs for your relaxation and pleasure. These programs are intended for different types of massage therapy. The five automatic programs are Shiatsu, Swedish, Deep, Arm stretch and Leg stretch. Traditional shiatsu massage targets your acupoints. The chair will scan your back and identify the acupressure points to release tension in your body.

A stress detector is incorporated into the Sanyo SA 5000 massage chair. Sanyo also makes lie detectors and they use the same technology to determine where stress is coming from in the body. You copy or hand over the top of the sensor and the computer then runs a reading to determine stress points in the body. The program then inputs those points into the computer and the program then identifies and targets your stress points for relief.

Panasonic has added an upper body and arm stretch capability to the 30004. This massage chair has an airbag contained and the armrest of the chair. This airbag can be used to provide a compression massage to the arm and hand. It is also used to hold the arm in place and recliner chair to stretch out the upper body, shoulders and arms.

The manual massages of the SA 5000 allow the user to choose the massage technique. There are four manual massage techniques and this recliner. This comes with kneading, tapping, rolling and combination massage. Also, manual massage courses are available to massage a specified region or point.

The 30004 comes with manual massage techniques as well. This recliner is loaded with eight manual massage types including Junetsu, shiatsu, kneading, Swedish, stretch, tapping, rolling and grip. The variety of manual methods is quite extraordinary in this massage chair. You are also free to choose from manual courses to contain the massage in a specific in a specific region or area.

The warranty coverage of the Panasonic is quite good. You get three years of parts protection on the 30004 massage therapy recliner. Also, Panasonic includes in home technician service for the first year. Sanyo also matches Panasonic on the one-year in-home service. However, Sanyo covers only the roller mechanism for three years. The other parts are covered only for one year.

Sanyo and Panasonic are the Titans of the electronics industry. These two Heavyweights square off with the SA 5000 and the 30004 massage chair recliners. Both of these are solid machines that deliver soothing and relaxing massage therapy on demand. If you enjoy deep penetrating massages and like stretching then go with the 30004 by Panasonic. If you like a neck and shoulders massage then the SA 5000 by Sanyo is for you. In either case these massage chairs deliver.

Every industry has its myth about products, technology or features. The massage chair industry is no different and many myths have been put forward. One paticularly persistent one is about the number of motors. This myth claims that the more motors the better. There were claims of shiatsu massage chairs having 6, 10 or even 18 motors. Of course, having more motors can be advantegeous, but also has tradeoffs. Are these claims sustainable in reality. This myth is put to the test.

This myth buster will challenge the more motors the better the chair. There are inherent advantages to having more motors, such as more massage movements. As with anything, there are tradeoffs, such as quantity versus quality. Can a massage chair with 18 motors have the same quality motors in a chair with only 3 motors? Keep in mind that motors are one of the most expensive items in a massage chair. Since, motors are not cheap, as the number of motors increases, the cost of the chair increases holding the quality level equal. Obviously, there is a great chance as motors are added; the quality level of the motors will drop.

Weight is a consideration since motors weigh between 2 lbs to 5 lbs each. Imagine a massage chair with 18 motors, each weighing 5 lbs for a total of 90 lbs just in motors. Motors can quickly add more weight. Space is another important consideration. There is only so much space in a shiatsu massage chair for the motors and the mechanisms driven by the motor. Shiatsu assage chairs with 3 motors in the chair back are already constrained, where do the other 15 motors go?

How are high end luxury massage chairs designed with motors? Most manufacturers use 3 high quality motors. One for the kneading massage, one for the tapping massage and the third motor for moving the roller unit up and down. Software synchronizes the movements of the motors and running the tapping and kneading motors together produces the shiatsu massage.

There is a 5 motor design where the kneading and tapping use two motors each. This is done by having a motor on both the left and right side rollers for both the kneading and tapping. Having 2 motors for kneading splits the duty and should lead to longer motor life. Did it make any difference in the massage capabilities? There was no noticeable difference. Is more better?

Some massage chair companies started this fad and some how it caught on and became perpertuated into myth. We still see massage chair companies hyping that they have 12 or 15 motors. It is obvious that these motors cannot all drive the massage mechanisms. These companies think that if it moves, we can count it as a motor. Having motors is not enough, what do they actually do? This is a myth built on hype and unsubstantiated facts. Why would someone want an overly complex chair with low quality motors? Simple is the elegant solution.