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During our seven years and more test mattresses, our team has refined a strict test process focused on key characteristics, including firmness and sensation, construction and design and performance. Performances include qualities such as edges support, movement isolation and temperature regulation.
OUR Mattress testers team And certified sleep coaches include individuals of variable sex, heights, body types, sleep positions and preferences. We carefully analyze each bed with all kinds of sleepers and use our vast experience to compare and contrast all the mattresses that enter the doors of our test installation.
Firmness and sensation
Aside from the general appearance of the bed, firmness and sensation are the first elements that we assess. These elements will help refine the beds that suit you the most.
In other words, firmness is the harsh or sweetness of the mattress. The standard of industry for the assessment of the firmness of the mattress is a scale from one to 10, that being the sweetest and 10 being the firmer. Our team measures it both subjectively and objective. We find the objective level of firmness of each bed using our super cool SMASHER 9000 mattresses Machine, designed by CNET Labs engineers. We execute each bed through the device several times, taking the average as a final objective score and comparing it to our subjective analyzes.
The Smasher mattress is preparing to break a bed and provide us with an objective firmness score.
Here are the levels of objective firmness of the best hybrid beds on this list, sorted from the sweetest to the firmer.
The feeling is where we become useful with the mattresses. What is it to extend it on the bed? Does it rebound quickly when we move on it? Does it have the traditional feeling of dense and flowing memory foam, or is it more reactive like latex foam? We examine and review in depth the firmness and the feeling of each bed in our opinions so that you can imagine exactly what it is to lie down, because we know that you cannot test the mattresses online in bed-in-box before buying one.
Construction and design
We can estimate the sustainability and performance of a mattress depending on what it is done. The coils wrapped individually help hybrid mattresses last longer than whole mattresses because they have a more solid structure which will not degrade or will not decompose so quickly. Fully-Foam mattresses are generally more likely to sag with time, but many high-end bed brands now use high density foams that 7 to 10 years Or beyond if it is supported correctly.
We examine the construction of each bed by removing the cover of the mattress.
Depending on the design of the mattress, we set out the cover to analyze and assess the layers inside. This helps us better understand how the bed works and its expected longevity.
On -board support
When we say the support of the tips, we are talking about the strength of the mattress perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to perform well in this category. During the tests, we lie on each edge of the bed to determine how robust it is. He has no good support on board if a feeling of intense roll-off gives the impression that we fight gravity to stay on the bed. Many mattresses have coils around the perimeter to provide additional reinforcement, ideal for those who share the bed with a partner to fight against the bed, children or children pet.
Movement isolation
Solid movement isolation is essential for people with agitated partners who move at night. You don’t want this movement to wake you up. We jump and bounce on the bed to test the amount of movement moves through the surface. We also place a glass of water on the mattress, driving towards and far from it to see if it will slip or tip over due to movement transfer. The beds with layers of dense memory foam work better in this category, while more reactive and bouncing mattresses tend to have worse movement insulation.
The expert in CNET mattress, Dillon Lopez, tests movement isolation on the black beautyrest hybrid.
Temperature
Sleeping hot is one of the most common troubles that people face at night. We assess the materials and the construction of a mattress to determine how hot or fresh bed is. Some materials, such as gel memory foam and covers that change phase, can prevent you from heating up too much at night.
Learn more about How Cnet tests mattresses.
