Cirrus Luxe-ES 13....is it a poor man's Tempur Cloud Luxe?

[phoenix]

Hi BigManLittleLady,

Most of the other forums in which you’ve spoke about the Cloud you haven’t necessarily said the material that make up the mattresses is altogether poor quality, its just for what you are getting the price is inflated. So I have a few questions…

Yes … the quality of the Tempurpedic has never been at issue (at least until the introduction of their new Simplicity line which uses much lower quality 2.5 lb memory foam which is among the lowest memory foam density available). The real issue with them has always been price and value and with so many good memory foam options availabe that also use high quaity memory foam … there is just no reason to go with Tempurpedic IMO unless there is some specific reason that someone would be willing to pay these prices for similar density and quality foam that they could purchase elsewhere.

So except for the new Simplicity line … Tempurpedic is high quality but poor value. The simplicity is lower quality and poor value.

First, as a larger guy (although I’m slowing becoming a more normal sized guy and if I stay on my current path I’ll be closer to 200lbs then the 265lb I am now) will a memory foam mattress like the Cloud or Cirrus give me any problems down the line? Note that I don’t currently have any pain from sleeping.

For higher weights like yours it’s usually a good idea to go with higher density or quality foams. While there are some good quality 4 lb foams available (such as the top layers in the cloud series and manyothers) … none of them will have the same durability as 5 lb foam. If the feel of 4 lb memory foam is the most important thing … then at least the consumer would know ahead of time that the mattress will be less durable than if they had used a higher density foam but this would be part of their “value equation”. Some of the factors involved in the durability of a mattress are discussed in post #2 here. The only other issue is that because memory foam layers will soften, the softening can have more of an effect on the mattress if the memofy foam layers are too thick for the person and this could lead to some degree of loss of support that keeps you in alignment. This too will depend on many factors and depends on where you were in the “range” of your support needs when you first purchased a particular mattress and how much softening it would take to put you on the wrong side of the line.

So as far as quality and durability how does the Cirrus Luxe stand up against the Tempurpedic Cloud Luxe? And are there other memory foam companies that I could look at as well to increase my choices?

Memoryfoam.com and Selectfoam.com are the same company and they and others (including one of our members of the site) are listed among a few of the better memory foam options in post #12 here.

In terms of quality and durability they use similar density foams in a similar thickness and layering so they would be very similar yes.

NOTE ADDED: Select Foam was a member of this site but because of ongoing customer service issues and delays their membership was terminated and I would read the warning here before considering them.

Of course this doesn’t say anything about the “feel” of a mattress because there are many versions of memory foam … each with it’s own properties and responses. Some of the differences between memory foams are listed in post #9 here. It seems though that their mattresses are designed to have a similar feel to many of the tempurpedic models so they wold likely be fairly similar … although anything to do with “feel” is also very subjective. I would certainly talk with them to see if they can add any more details about the similarities and differences between them based on their customer’s feedback and their own personal knowledge.

Phoenix