Osaki OS-Pro Admiral Massage Chair Review 2024

Do you have a job that sees you on your feet most of the day? Have you been looking for a massage chair designed to help you solve that problem and give you a great full-body massage anytime you want one?

If you answered yes to either or both questions, you would be impressed with what you read in our Osaki OS-Pro Admiral massage chair review.

Osaki is one of the major players in the massage chair ecosystem. They make consistently great products, offer them at surprisingly attractive prices, and are extremely well-regarded in the industry. Their products deserve to be on your shortlist of options if you’re in the market. Read this article to explore other models.

In the sections that follow, we’ll outline everything that the Osaki Pro Admiral electric massage chair is capable of, and we won’t hold back when it comes to describing this model’s points of weakness (and it has a few).

By the time you reach the end, even if you conclude that this isn’t the model you’re looking for, we think you’ll agree—it’s an amazing design with a lot to offer. If you’re interested in learning more, read on, and let’s take a closer look.

Key Features of the Osaki OS-Pro Admiral Massage Chair

Let’s start this section of our Osaki OS-Pro Admiral massage chair review with first impressions. If you’ve looked at massage chairs before, you know that they don’t win high marks for beauty. They’re not necessarily ugly, but unless your living room looks a lot like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, a massage chair will probably look a little out of place.

On top of that, these are big pieces of furniture, and the Admiral is no exception. It measures 64.2” x 30.7” x 50” when upright and 74.8” x 30.7” x 40.6” when fully reclined.

It’s also a heavy piece of furniture, weighing a healthy 239 pounds. Of interest, though, is that this model can only support 220 pounds of user weight. Most of the chairs on the market today support at least 300 pounds, but this model supports disappointingly less than that.

Naturally, if you weigh less than 220 pounds, this limitation is not an issue, but if you weigh more, it will be an outright dealbreaker. That’s a pity because this model does have a lot to offer. 

Before we get into the specifics, we’ll close out this section by saying that, assuming the modest weight limit isn’t an issue for you, you can order yours in black, brown, or grey. While the color selection isn’t what we’d call generous, the available colors are neutral, and one of them is almost certainly a good fit for whatever room you’re planning on putting the chair in.

Our one quibble here is that the chair is upholstered with PU. That’s incredibly common in the massage chair industry, but we don’t have to like it. PU looks and feels like leather, but it’s not as durable as we’d like. It will probably start showing its age by peeling and cracking long before you hope it will.

Unfortunately, only a handful of chairs on the market today are upholstered with top-grain leather, so it’s just something we’ve learned to live with. Even so, we’re a little underwhelmed by the upholstery.

Another thing we should draw your attention to is the fact that although the chair is a large and imposing piece of furniture, it doesn’t take as much room as you might think to use it effectively.

That’s because the Admiral is designed with space-saving technology, which means it pivots on its base when you recline in it.

Chairs that aren’t designed in this manner typically require a couple of feet of clearance between the seatback and whatever wall you place it near. With this chair, you only need about 4” of clearance, and that’s huge.

It makes the Admiral a lot more user-friendly. It still fills up a room, but the minimal clearance needed helps.

The final thing to bring to your attention before we leave this section is that you may find this referenced as the Osaki Pro Admiral II. That’s because the Admiral is one of the company’s older models. Osaki has worked hard to keep this model current and has recently upgraded the underlying tech.

Many websites still refer to the chair as “The Admiral.” Still, under the hood, you’re getting the Osaki Pro Admiral 2 unless you’re buying from a warehouse vendor that stocks older and discontinued models.

L-Track & Quad Rollers

This is the major thing that defines the quality of a massage chair. After all, the track the chair has and the number of rollers it sports play major roles in determining the overall quality of the massage a given chair can render.

Here, Osaki OS-Pro Admiral gets off to a great start with an L-Track that extends beneath the seat. This allows the rollers to give you not just a neck, back, and shoulder massage but one that can also attend to your glutes and the backs of your thighs. 

That’s superb, but it gets better because the Osaki Pro Admiral massage chair sports quad rollers, which do an “admirable” (pun very much intended) job of replicating the feel of human hands. Every time you sit in the chair to enjoy a massage, you get a feeling similar to paying a visit to your local chiropractor’s office.

The massage track is dimensional. The rollers can move on the x-, y-, and z-axis, which means that when you increase the intensity of the rollers, they will press more firmly into your back.

3D Body Scan

This section will be another short but incredibly important part of our Osaki Admiral massage chair review. Osaki’s body scanning technology is another critical element in the overall massage quality.

Each time you sit in the chair, the sensors inside it get busy scanning you. Based on the scan results (the chair identifying your body’s pressure points), the rollers shift around quietly. When your massage starts, they hit where you need them to, which makes the massage feel amazing.

Not all body scanning routines are created equal, however. Some companies use absolutely wretched routines and seldom get the job done. 

Osaki’s body scanning tech is exceptional, and in practice, it gets the rollers in exactly the right spot about 95% of the time. In the few instances where the tech misses the mark, the remote has controls that allow you to tweak the roller positions manually.

Combining those two things virtually guarantees that the rollers will be precisely where you want them whenever you order a massage.

Zero-Gravity Seating Offered

Only about a third of the massage chairs on the market today offer Zero-G seating, and the Osaki Pro Admiral massage chair is one of them.

Inspired by NASA, Zero-G seating reclines you to a position where your knees are slightly above your heart. This is not only exceptionally comfortable but also leaves you with a feeling of weightlessness.

In addition to being a cool-sounding feature, it has been documented to help improve blood flow. If you’ve recently had surgery, it will facilitate faster healing, which means you’ll be back to enjoying life to the fullest before you know it.

The one drawback is that only a single Zero-G seating position is offered. That’s not horrible, given the price of the chair, but you can find some models that offer two or even three different Zero-G positions. We certainly can’t complain about the one offered here, and we think you’ll love it!

Above-Average Number of Massage Options

Now we get to the meat of it. Different companies take varying approaches to massage implementation.

Some offer a broad range of techniques but relatively few pre-programmed options.

Osaki goes in the other direction. You’ll only find a handful of massage techniques, but the company goes out of its way to give you many one-touch options.

That’s a good approach for people who aren’t tech-savvy and don’t want to fiddle with the controls. Getting a massage in the Osaki Pro Admiral 2 is as simple as sitting down and pressing a button. You can take more control and tweak settings, but you don’t need to.

In terms of precisely what the Admiral offers, you get access to the following massage techniques:

It covers the basics and gives you access to one advanced technique.

Shiatsu is far and away the most common advanced massage technique offered on massage chairs, so there aren’t any surprises here.

As we said earlier, where Osaki really shines is in the number of pre-programmed massage options available. You get a total of sixteen on the Admiral. They are:

Experiment and decide for yourself which one works best for you.

In addition to selecting from several pre-programmed options, the Admiral allows you to control the roller intensity and speed via six adjustment levels.

You can also create your custom massage, but you cannot save your settings for one-touch recall later.

Even so, you can create any massage you want. Via the remote, you can focus the rollers on your shoulders and neck, your full back, your lower back, or your feet and calves.

Airbag Massage Too!

The Admiral doesn’t stop with just a great roller-based massage, though. It also offers a fantastic airbag-based massage that uses the 24 airbags scattered throughout the chair.

As with the rollers, users can set the intensity of the airbag massage to five levels and dial their massage into specific regions of the body (the same regions we outlined above for the roller-based massage).

Lumbar & Calf Heat

We regard this as one of the most important components of our Osaki Pro Admiral electric massage chair review.

Heat is only offered on a minority of the chairs on the market today, and most chairs that feature heat only have heat in the lower back region (lumbar). The Admiral is a notable exception because it offers lumbar heat and heated footwells.

Heat is a powerful therapeutic feature, and it’s outstanding that it’s offered in two different areas.

Our only issue with implementing this feature is that you can’t activate heat in just the footwell.

The first time you press the heat button, you get lumbar heat. A second press adds heat to the footwells, and a third turns the heat off.

The heat activation button is a small but annoying design flaw. It would have been simple to add a couple of additional options that would allow you to add heat to only the region you want. Even so, heat is far better than no heat, and two heated regions make the Admiral superb.

Calf & Foot Massage

Many Osaki Admiral massage chair reviews rightly highlight the exceptional calf and foot massage as a highlight of the design.

We agree but would argue that it’s even bigger than that. In our view, this is the reason to buy the Admiral.

Sure, it gives a great general massage and has a decent but not best-in-class body stretch, which is a powerful therapeutic feature in its own right. However, the foot massage with the heated footwells really sets this chair apart from the competition.

The foot and calf massage is rendered via three rollers for your feet and airbags for your calves.

The intensity of the rollers and airbags can be set independently via three different intensity settings (three for the rollers and three for the airbags). The reflexology technology that Osaki incorporates into its foot massage makes it one of the best in the business. However, it comes close to nirvana when combined with heat.

If you’re looking for a chair that can bring your aching feet some soothing relief, this will be hands down your favorite aspect of the Admiral’s design.

The heated foot massage is decadent. You’re going to love it.

A Generous Number of Finishing Touches on Top of All That!

While finding other models with more finishing touches is easy, there’s a lot to like here. Combining it with all the other great features we’ve already discussed makes it easy to see why the Admiral is such a popular model and one of Osaki’s best sellers.

Pros & Cons of Osaki Admiral Massage Chair

We like almost everything about the Osaki Admiral, but in our view, the highlights are:

Unfortunately, it has a couple of weaknesses, and one is quite serious.

Our biggest issue is that the chair only supports 220 pounds of user weight. That isn’t very pleasant and makes this chair fairly narrowly focused.

We were also underwhelmed by the upholstery (PU) and the Admiral only offers one advanced massage technique (Shiatsu).

Those two points won’t be dealbreakers for most folks, but the weight limit certainly may.

Osaki OS-Pro Admiral Massage Chair Review Conclusion

We wanted to love the Admiral, and we almost did, but it didn’t quite get there. The modest weight limit is a significant drawback that almost makes this a niche product. In our Osaki OS-Pro Admiral massage chair review, we’d say that it still appeals to more of the market than it alienates, though. So it’s not quite niche, but it does come fairly close to that.

Assuming the weight limit isn’t a dealbreaker, and especially if you are looking for a model that will help ease the pain in your aching feet, this one belongs on your shortlist of options to consider. We recommend it.

Other Options to Consider

If the Admiral is a non-starter, here are a couple of other options you may want to consider.

This model offers more of what you like best about the Admiral and supports more user weight.

Note, however, that you give up the heated footwell, but you get a better and more versatile chair overall.

One of the best values in the massage chair market today, the Kahuna LM6800 sports the best body stretch in the industry, along with an impressive array of hard-hitting features that you typically only find in much more expensive chairs. In other words, the 6800 punches well above its weight class and is a superb option, regardless of the chair you’re looking for.

Official Manufacturer Support

References & Resources:

• Osaki Message Chair, Official Brand Website.
• What is Holistic Massage Therapy? Worldwide Health.
• Management of Frozen Shoulder with Oil Cupping Massage: A Case Study, Research Gate.