This tell you the amount of pressure that can be applied before the motor stalls. The other key aspect of a massage gun is stall force. And the Hypervolt clone from Hirix is actually the quietest.Īll three are comfortably quiet enough to use while watching the TV, as long as you’re not sat next to someone who will get annoyed by the buzz. What can we take from these figures? While they motor tones are quite different, the noise levels of the cheapest massager are very similar to the Theragun’s. Their job is trickier, though, as fully branded massage guns tend to have more powerful motors than the cheap crowd. Much of this comes from changes to the motors inside, which companies like Therabody and Hyperice most likely do not design from the ground up. Therabody has made huge improvements to noise levels in the last couple of generations. Some early models sounded much like power tools, because that’s more or less what they were. Noise is one of the main areas of improvement for massage guns over the last two years. The mid-price massager from Hirix has touch sensitive controls on the back Andrew Williams Noise The entry-level Rybozen gun uses a simple set of LEDs to show the mode used, the middle contender a large LCD screen and the Theragun Elite a small OLED. It feels great, and is the attachement I use most of the time.
I think this may be in part down to the very soft default general purpose head. That said, two of the three people I tried these massagers on preferred the Theragun instantly. The Theragun Elite does not have a “relaxed” setting, as its base 1750rpm mode is still energetic.įor a longer, chilled-out massage of your legs while watching the TV, sometimes the low-rent massage guns are a better fit. However, I do like that the power floor of the cheaper massage guns is much lower. You’re likely to find two or three settings you like the most, so the extra choice means little in the end. The cheapest massager has six and the mid-tier one has 20. The feature set of a massage gun does not tell you much about how good it is, or how much it costs.įor example, the Theragun Elite has the fewest speed presets, just five. Its range of motion is still far greater than a regular massager not designed for sports use.
That said, I used this gun for several weeks before the others arrived, and still found it a useful tool for recovery. The cheapest Rybozen massager seems disappointingly shallow next to the other two, and ends up feeling relatively weak at comparable speeds. However, even in direct comparison, the middle-price Hirix massager gives a perfectly good massage. The softer a tip is, the less intensely it pushes into a specific area, which is why the smaller attachments are the harder ones. There's a much greater variation in attachment hardness in the higher-price Theragun Andrew WilliamsĪll of the cheaper massager guns tips are much harder, with much less variation. Here’s how the softest Therabody and softest Hirix attachments compare: They range from fairly soft to dense foam tips with only a little give. The Therabody Theragun Elite also has much greater variation in the density, or hardness, of its attachments. You can improve this a bit in the cheaper one by pushing harder, but it’s not quite the same effect.
Greater motion overs a deeper-feeling massage. It tells you the range of motion of the head. Two factors elevate the pricey massage gun, amplitude and head density. The Theragun Elite feels better than either of the two cheaper models, proving more-or-less instantly you don’t get exactly the same experience for much less cash.īut why? That’s the more interesting part. There are no phantom buzzing sounds and the design is more flexible as it has a multi-angle handle. The Theragun Elite has none of the same build worries. The Rybozen is also, of course, useless away from a power socket. And the power cable has a habit of falling out when you try to use the gun on your shoulder blades.
This leaves the power port exposed, not handy for use around sweaty people. However, as there is no battery the handle (where the battery usually lives) feels relatively hollow, and the adapter plugs into the back. Its simpler design offers fewer parts to go wrong. The cheapest Rybozen massager actually seems sturdie. That said, the most point of failure for these devices is the battery, that at some point it just stops holding charge. These issues give you far less confidence that a massage gun will last long-term. Each cheaper massager has its own little build quality issues Andrew Williams
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