Hi suffolk,
I can only speak to the quality and value of a mattress based on the materials but comfort choices are always best left to your own personal testing for a local purchase or on “equivalent” mattresses if there are any available locally where you can come close to matching the materials and firmness levels of an online mattress you are considering. Other than this … the best approach is with more detailed conversations with the manufacturers or retailers themselves because they have much more knowledge about the details of their mattresses than anyone else and which of their mattresses may be most suitable for different body types and sleeping styles based on the “averages” of their customers.
Post #2 here and post #2 here have more information about how I would make final choices once you know the details of all the materials in each mattress and have eliminated the worst choices and you are down to making choices between “good and good”. Since Brooklyn Bedding makes both the Nuform mattresses and the Dreamfoam mattresses as well as their own line of mattresses … they may have more insights about the differences between them that may help you choose.
[quote]really hard to get any info on the NE mattress, i called Blue bell and a few dealers. Guy said the NE set was on sale for 2099$, made one call and another place offered the set for 1379. WOW what a difference. what i am getting at is it seems the 10 or 11" mattress without a topper is plenty for me.
i am 5-10, 185 and the wife is 5-0 115 and right now we are sleeping on a 4 year old cheap overstock 14" memory foam mattress that is done.[/quote]
As you can see in post #42 here … Comfort Solutions (and in particular Blue Bell which is their licensee that makes the Natural Elegance mattresses) are not very transparent or helpful about providing information about their mattresses or the materials that are in them and since major brands are not usually particularly good value anyway and because even if you only use them for testing purposes, without knowing the materials and layering inside them there is no way to know their real quality or value or make meaningful comparisons with other mattresses … even for testing … I would tend to avoid them.
I’m always happy to provide generic guidelines and information and to help the members here connect with the better retailers and manufacturers that are available to them but comfort choices and final choices are always up to each person and their own unique needs and preferences and the individual criteria of their own personal value equation that are most important to them.
Phoenix