In a Nutshell:
The Real Relax PS6000 is a great chair for the money. It’s got a solid feature set and offers tremendous value for the money. Recommended for anyone on a budget who weighs up to 400 pounds.
Overall Massage Quality
Customization options
Ease of Use
Value for the Money
Brand Reliability*
Overall Rating
4.2/5
Benefits
Drawbacks
Recommended For: Anyone looking for an alternative massage chair from the Real Relax brand.
Do you suffer from chronic back or leg pain? Do you spend an inordinate amount of time and money making trips to your local chiropractor in a bid to relieve or at least manage that pain?
If you answered yes to those questions and you’ve been looking for a well-priced massage chair to save time and money, then you’ll like what you read in this—our Real Relax PS6000 review.
Haven’t heard of Real Relax? That’s not too surprising. Although the company has been in business for more than twenty years, they have a relatively small footprint in the market and aren’t nearly as big or as well-known as industry giants like Kahuna or Osaki.
That said, they make surprisingly good chairs, and many of the models in the Real Relax lineup punch well above their weight class. If you’re familiar with the office furniture market, consider them the rough equivalent of the Flash Furniture of the massage chair world.
If you’re not brand-conscious, a chair like this will serve you very well. In the sections that follow, we’ll examine the PS 6000 and tell you everything it gets right. We also won’t hold back when describing the chair’s shortcomings.
That way, you’ll have all the information you need to decide whether this is the chair you’ve been looking for or if your search must continue. If that sounds good, read on, and let’s look closer.
Key Features of the Real Relax PS6000 Massage Chair
In terms of aesthetics, the PS6000’s design team stuck strictly to the convention. This chair looks much like most other massage chairs on the market today, with no attempt to hide its true function.
That doesn’t mean this model is ugly, but it does mean that unless your existing home décor scheme runs vaguely futuristic, the Real Relax PS6000 will stick out in whatever room you place it.
That isn’t helped by its size, either. This is a big piece of furniture, measuring 31.5” W x 58.3” L x 61.5” H and weighing a hefty 229.1 pounds. If you decide to order one of these, you’re almost certainly going to want a friend standing by on the day it arrives to assist you in getting it wherever you want to put it.
It’s just too big for most people to wrangle on their own.
It’s worth mentioning that if you order one of these, you can get yours in either black or brown, which gives you at least some flexibility in blending it with your existing color scheme. It’s important to remember that finding a permanent home for this chair might be somewhat challenging if you live in a smaller home or apartment.
While many massage chairs are designed with space-saving or wall-hugging technology, this isn’t one of them, so you’ll need about 20” of clearance between the back of the seat and whatever wall you plan on putting this chair near.
Assuming that’s not an issue, you’ll be pleased to know that this chair supports an impressive 400 pounds of user weight, which makes it a good fit for more than 95% of the potential market, and even better, given its impressive size, it can accommodate users up to 6’5” tall.
These are categorically solid numbers, making this an exceptional frame around which to build the rest of the chair. Next, we’ll outline what other technologies the company employed in the rest of the design!
Built With State-Of-The-Art Technology
We consider this to be a very strong component of our Real Relax PS6000 review.
Although Real Relax is a small company compared to the industry’s giants, they didn’t cut corners where this model is concerned.
It sports a delightfully long SL massage track that starts your massage at the tops of your shoulders and allows the rollers to travel down the length of your spine, then turn and continue under the chair where the rollers can render a massage of your glutes and the backs of your thighs.
Even better, the track is 3D, which allows the quad rollers to move along the X-, Y-, and Z-axis, which is a fancy, roundabout way of saying that this chair is capable of giving an superb massage that feels a lot like the one you’d get from a talented human masseuse.
Even better, the chair utilizes body scanning technology to ensure that the rollers hit your body’s pressure points exactly. In rare instances when they don’t, you’ll find control on the touch screen control system that enables you to tweak the roller position to perfection.
This is all to say that the PS6000 has very good bones. In the next section, we’ll look at how the design team built on the basics, and we think you’ll be impressed.
Generous Number of Massage Options
We’d consider this to be another very strong component of our Real Relax PS6000 review. For the money, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the number of massage options on offer.
Starting with basic massage techniques, you’ll find:
The techniques on offer here are pretty standard fare. These are what we’d consider the minimum necessary techniques to qualify as a decent massage chair, and you find these—sometimes slightly renamed—on just about every massage chair on the market today.
This, however, is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In addition to the massage techniques on offer, the PS6000 also features the following pre-programmed massage options:
All of these massage routines are excellent, and we think you’ll enjoy experimenting with them to find your favorites. If you suffer from chronic pain, the stretch and swing options will likely be at or near the top.
The stretch program is Real Relax’s take on the Thai stretch, which is fairly aggressive. It’s not the best in class, but it is quite good. However, if the Thai stretch is too much for you, then you may be better off with a chair made by Kahuna. They use a milder Yoga Stretch, which may be a better fit for you.
Assuming that the Thai stretch isn’t too aggressive for you, you’ll be pleased to know that the Real Relax PS6000 also offers spot and partial massage modes, and any massage you order from the chair can be modified via the touch panel through five different intensity levels.
Granted, you can find massage chairs that offer more in the way of customization and personalization, but for the money, this is quite good.
Zero-G Seating Options
The PS 6000 also offers not one but two different Zero-G seating options. If you’re not sure why that’s important or even a good thing, we’ll give you the inside scoop right now.
NASA-inspired Zero-G seating does leave you with a feeling of weightlessness. It’s more than just a gimmick, though. Zero-G seating offers powerful therapeutic benefits, including improving circulation, lowering blood pressure, and enhancing the overall quality of any massage you get from the chair.
Even better, sitting in a Zero-G position for a little while every day can facilitate faster post-surgical healing. This model offers not one but two Zero-G seating positions, both available at the touch of a button.
This is an awesome feature; we’re thrilled to see it included here. Kudos to the Real Relax design team!
Lumbar Heat
This is probably our favorite design aspect and another strong component of our Real Relax PS6000 review. Any massage you get from this chair will feel good. It’ll feel even better if you put the chair in one of its two Zero-G seating positions, and it will feel absolutely amazing if you add heat.
We’d love it even more if the offered heat was also in the leg massage ports and maybe even temperature-controlled. Honestly, we’re happy to see it in any form for the money, given all the other features this chair includes.
Heat is probably tied with the stretch routine as the most powerful therapeutic feature this model brings to the table.
Airbag Massage
While this isn’t one of the 6000’s stronger features, it’s worth mentioning that it also offers a decent airbag massage.
You can customize your airbag-based massage in two ways—by modifying the offered intensity levels (five of these) or by selectively activating the airbags via the following body zones:
While we’re pretty sure nobody is going to pick this model over some other on the strength of the airbag massage, it is a competently implemented feature, and you’re almost certain to get some use out of it.
Excellent Calf and Foot Massage
The calf and foot massage on the PS6000 Massage Chair is quite possibly the strongest feature this design offers.
The calf massage is rendered via airbags, while the foot massage is attended to via airbags and foot rollers. It feels amazing and is easily on par with the calf and foot massage you find on chairs offered by much bigger brands.
The only way this feature could be better would be if Real Relax also offered heat in the leg massage ports, the footwells, or both. If your legs and feet are killing you at the end of a typical day, this will almost certainly be your favorite aspect of the chair’s design. It’s superb.
Now Let’s Talk About Extras
Normally, when an off-brand company makes a massage chair, it cuts corners somewhere, and usually, it’s the “extras” that get cut. Those finishing touches and design flourishes tend to set the big-name brands apart from the little ones.
Real Relax didn’t do that here. This chair has as many high-value extras as the best chairs offered by brands like Osaki and Kahuna. They include:
The Bluetooth speakers and the USB charging port are exceptional because they allow you to listen to your favorite music or podcast while enjoying a massage, and the timer is a high-value addition that gives you yet another customization option.
The chair’s default massage time is fifteen minutes, but thanks to the built-in massage timer, you can adjust that to as little as five minutes or as long as thirty minutes.
Pros & Cons of Real Relax PS6500 Massage Chair
We don’t have any serious complaints about this chair. It was designed as an entry-level massage chair and fulfilled that role brilliantly.
Any complaint we could levy about the design would require adding features that would make it more expensive and, thus, make it something other than a value-priced offering.
Sure, there are a few enhancements we’d like to see on some future model updates, but those would amount to minor improvements. Honestly, the chair is fine as is.
Real Relax PS6000 Review Conclusion
At the end of the day, you’re either in the market for a value-priced chair or you aren’t. If you are, then this is a really good one that belongs on your short list of options to consider.
It’s not hard to find a chair that offers more features, extras, or therapeutic benefits, depending on your specific needs, but this one is going to be hard to beat if you’re looking for a well-priced massage chair that will admirably serve the needs of the vast majority of the market. We recommend it.
Other Options to Consider
If you’ve reached the end of this PS6000 massage chair review and you’re just not convinced that the 6000 is the right chair for you, here are a couple of other massage chairs you may want to consider:
Recommended For: Hobbyist/casual users, chronic pain sufferers, and taller users, almost anybody, will love this chair!
In our opinion, this is the Gold Standard by which all other entry-level chairs are judged. It’s simply the best value in the massage chair world today. It offers Kahuna’s legendary Yoga Stretch, milder than the Thai stretch.
You owe it to yourself to at least compare the two and see which one offers more of what you need.
Recommended For: Anyone on a budget who weighs up to 400 pounds.
Consider this the big brother of the chair we just discussed. If you like the 6000, you’re going to love the 6500. Sure, it will cost you a bit more, but it’s got more of everything you probably liked in this model.
References & Resources
- Real Relax, Official Brand Website.
- Tuina Massage: Benefits, Techniques, and More, Healthline.
- Massage Therapy For a Better Night’s Sleep, Sleep Review Mag.
- Use These Types of Massage For Chronic Pain, PainScale.
- Using Massage Therapy to Treat Arthritis Pain, Arthritis Society Canada.