[quote=“Phoenix” post=76399]Hi kanati.
Welcome to our Mattress Forum! … and Congratulations on your recent mattress purchase! 
Glad to hear that you are covering all your bases and that you contacted the company. Thanks for sharing!
The reporting was not incorrect as a while ago S&S themselves reported the second layer as being Memory Foam. To be more precise…this is what S&S themselves had listed on their own site :
[indent]2’ Ultra-Dense Supportive Memory Foam
2" Ultra-Dense Responsive Memory Foam
6" Premium Support Foam
Polyester/Spandex/Silver Infused Zipper Cover[/indent]
They apparently changed their design … new specs currently listed on their own site are:
[indent]2" of 4 lb Memory Foam
2" of 2.7 lb Responsive High Performance Foam
6" of 1.8 lb Support Polyfoam
Polyester/Spandex/Silver Infused Zipper Cover[/indent]
Phoenix[/quote]
I reached out to Phoenix to clarify this point and wanted to also share my response on the forum. The design of our Silk + Snow mattress has not changed, however, we did update the description of the middle layer to “high performance foam” as it better explained the type of foam being used. The middle layer is a viscoelastic foam, which is why we originally described it as a memory foam. However, for our customers who were a little more well versed in the various types of foam (and many of them appear to be TMU users), to avoid confusion, we found it more appropriate to describe this foam layer as a “high performance foam” as it is a specialty foam designed to work well as a middle layer since it offered a higher support factor and was made in higher ILDs. I believe this is also the description that is commonly used on this forum and was described very well in post #2 in the thread below:
https://forum.mattressunderground.com/t/tuft-and-needle-new-top-layer-foam