I’m happy to help contribute to the site - I’ve learned so much from others experience sharing. I’ll post again with impressions after my next round of testing.
I agree that one person’s experience is not necessarily a good predictor. What caught my eye about Halifax’s issue was that he loved his mattress to start, but then over a longer period of time started having shoulder issues. I am already concerned that the comfort layers on that specific mattress are not thick enough for my husband’s shoulder, so I’m very interested if Halifax resolved his issue. Hopefully he’ll post an update.
Thanks for your assessment of my guess about why the pocket coils felt better to my husband. With pocket coils, there are 2 things that might not work so well for me. One is possible increased offgassing from the polyfoam surround and pocket coil glues, since I know I’m sensitive to offgassing. The other is the possible increase in dustmites due to the pocket fabric. Do you have opinions on either of these? Have you had anyone experience increased offgassing and/or dustmite issues with pocketcoils vs other types of innersprings? I think next time I talk with Fox I need to ask if they have a model that has the same comfort layers, but uses a non-pocket type of innerspring so we can test it for comfort.
And I will wait to ask Fox about the comfort layer thickness until after I do some further local testing of latex to find out if a thicker comfort layer feels better to us.