New to the forum- suggestions on iComfort Genius alternative?

[phoenix]

Hi shroop,

Reading through Phoenix’s posting, the iComfort Genius is described as having a top poly layer, then memory foam below - which is what you would think based on the mattress’ description (both on-line and on the card in the store). BUT we were just looking at one this afternoon and got the store manager to unzip the cover for us. Looking at it directly, it really looks like the memory foam is the top layer

I’m not sure where you read that the polyfoam was on top for either the Genius or any of the iComfort mattresses because as you are mentioning it’s the other way around. Post #11 here has the layering for all of the iComfort series and they all have either gel memory foam or regular memory foam in the top layer. In the Genius … the layer below the gel memory foam is what Serta calls “support foam” which is a low density but very firm polyfoam which provides the firmness of the Genius but which is subject to early softening.

Sleep Innovations (actually Advanced Urethane Technologies which is their foam pouring division) makes both the gel memory foam for Serta and for Novaform but the Serta version is a higher density and quality (although I don’t think that any “particulate” gel memory foam is as high a quality as the types of gel foams that are mixed together as a liquid). You can read about the different types of gel memory foams in post #2 here.

Unfortunately you can’t “feel” quality and low quality materials can feel and perform just as well as higher quality materials … for a short while. The only way to know the quality or durability of a mattress (outside of actually using it over time) is to know the details of the layers that are in it.

Phoenix