Hi needanewmattress,
If a zoned pocket spring is one of your main criteria then it would be a matter of looking at the options that are available to you either locally or online (including the options that I linked previously) and asking about their springs so you can find out whether they meet your criteria. The specifics of all the thousands of mattresses that are available through the information on the site isn’t something that I keep in my head so this is a part of your research that you would need to do based on the information on their websites or with a phone call.
There are three main parts to the value of a mattress purchase that are discussed in post #13 here.
The first of these is suitability or what I call PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences). There are hundreds of different versions of pocket coils and pocket coil mattresses that are very different from each other and some of them may be suitable for your body type and sleeping positions and preferences and some of them may be completely unsuitable for you to sleep on even though they are in the same “category” or use a similar type of support core. The only way to confirm whether any mattress is a good match for you is based on your own personal testing or experience. If you can’t test a mattress before a purchase or if you aren’t confident that your testing would be a reliable way to know whether a mattress is suitable for you then the only effective way to decide on whether to consider a particular mattress or have any idea about whether it may be suitable for you would be based on a more detailed conversation with an online manufacturer or retailer who can help “talk you through” the options they have available that would have the best chance of success based on “averages” of other customers that are similar to you (and you may or may not be inside the averages that they use). In this case the options you have after a purchase would likely become a much more important part of the “value” of your purchase so you can use your actual sleeping experience to decide on whether the mattress is suitable for you and can return it or fine tune it for a reasonable cost if it’s not.
The second most important part of the “value” of your mattress purchase involves durability and the useful life of a mattress relative to the other mattresses that you are considering. This is where knowing the information about the materials and components in a mattress are important so you can identify any lower quality and less durable materials or weak links in a mattress. Specs are not an effective way to decide on the suitability of a mattress but they are the only way to have any meaningful idea about the durability and useful life of a mattress because you can’t “feel” the quality or durability of the materials in a mattress. Poor quality and less durable materials can feel exactly the same in a showroom or when a mattress is new as higher quality and more durable materials. They just don’t last as long before they soften and break down and you are no longer sleeping well on them.
Once you have put together a list of finalists that you believe would be suitable for you in terms of PPP (either based on your own testing or on more detailed conversations with online manufacturers or retailers) and you have confirmed that they all use high quality materials and don’t have any weak links in their design … then the final part of deciding on which mattress is the “best value for you” would be to compare them for “value” based on all the parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you.
I would always keep in mind that the types of mattress that you tend to prefer is a personal preference but that regardless of which type of mattress you may prefer that you won’t be able to know whether a mattress in that “category” will be suitable for you based on “comfort” specs but that the specs about the quality of the materials inside a mattress are the only reliable way to know whether a mattress has any lower quality materials or any weak links in the design.
In my previous replies I linked the pocket coil /latex hybrids I’m aware of which along with the members here that sell innerspring mattresses online that are linked in the tutorial post and the local lists I linked will give you a place to start but I don’t keep a record of mattress specs for specific mattresses in my head or in a database (it would be impossible for anyone to keep up with this in a market that includes thousands of mattresses that are constantly changing) so you would need to use this as a starting point and check websites or make some calls to help you narrow down the choices that you wish to consider.
I can certainly act as a “fact check” or help you differentiate lower quality materials from higher quality materials but only you can decide on preference choices or whether you believe any particular mattress would be suitable for you to sleep on or depending on the return or exchange policies whether it would be worth the “risk” if you aren’t certain.
Phoenix