My Luxi experience and hybrid mattress questions

[phoenix]

Hi DMSexton47,

By “all foam” I meant memory foam / poly foam. Mainly because I’ve discovered I really want the mattress to have some bounce. This is one area that sets the Hybrid way above the Luxi for me.

The two “bounciest” materials would be innersprings and latex.

I’ve tried dozens of memory foam mattresses in stores, and I thought I had figured out my PPP.

There is no way to “calculate” or “figure out” PPP based on specs (either yours or a mattress) and the mattresses that you tried in the stores were very different from the mattresses that you purchased. The only way to know whether any mattress is a suitable “match” for you in terms of comfort, firmness, and PPP would be based on your own careful testing or personal experience.

In fact the Hybrid feels almost identical to mattresses I found very comfortable during store-testing - medium-soft hybrid mem-foam mattresses. Now I’m learning that I sleep terribly on softer mattresses, and sleeping “in” the mattress rather than on it causes me tons of issues. It seems I’ve been on the wrong track and need to start over.

Perceptions such as “comfort” or how a mattress “feels” is very subjective and is different from primary support which in turn is different from secondary support which in turn is different from pressure relief.

My old mattress is a ~30 year-old Jamison Vita-Pedic, with two different firmness levels listed: a “comfort level” of medium-firm, and a “support level” of extra-firm. It doesn’t feel very firm, but when laying on it now I realize I sink into the mattress much less than the Hybrid. If it wasn’t for all the busted springs poking out the side and the unidentifiable mold-like odor, I would’ve given up and gone back to that mattress after realizing the Hybrid was another dud. Even as old as it is there are no indentations and it’s much more comfortable than either the Luxi or Hybrid (to me). I should probably start looking at innerspring mattresses.

This would probably be something in the range of medium firm to firm overall but there are also no “standard” definitions or consensus of opinions for firmness ratings and different manufacturers can rate their mattresses very differently than others so a mattress that one manufacturer rates as being a specific firmness could be rated very differently by another manufacturer. Different people can also have very different perceptions of firmness and softness compared to others as well and a mattress that feels firm for one person can feel like “medium” for someone else or even “soft” for someone else (or vice versa) depending on their body type, sleeping style, physiology, their frame of reference based on what they are used to, and their individual sensitivity and perceptions. There are also different types of firmness and softness that different people may be sensitive to that can affect how they “rate” a mattress as well (see post #15 here) so different people can also have very different opinions on how two mattresses compare in terms of firmness and and some people may rate one mattress as being firmer than another and someone else may rate them the other way around. This is all relative and very subjective and is as much an art as a science.

Do you know of any online retailers that sell reasonable quality innerspring mattresses? I’ve been so focused on memory foam/latex that I’m not very familiar with the online offerings for more traditional mattresses.

Some of the better innerspring/latex options I’m aware of are listed in post #2 here and the post it links to but if you wish to test any of them in person (which may be advisable if you have already tried two mattresses that didn’t work for you) you would need to check their websites or call them to see if any of them have a dealer close to you.

Off the top of my head … I can’t think of any innerspring/polyfoam mattresses that are available online and that have a good return policy and that use polyfoam that meets the minimum foam quality/density guidelines that I would suggest.

35750. As far as I know my options are limited to several chain stores (MattressFirm, MattressKing, etc) and Furniture Row.

Subject to confirming that any retailer or manufacturer on the list is completely transparent (see this article) and to making sure that any mattress you are considering meets the quality/value guidelines here … the better options or possibilities I’m aware of in and around the Huntsville, AL area are listed in post #2 here.

Phoenix