Beautyrest Silver BRS900   Review

This Medium-Firm mattress performs best for heavier side sleepers, whose arms and shoulders will sink in enough for proper pressure relief. It's also suitable for average-weight side sleepers, although you might ideally want a more conforming mattress for better pressure relief. Lighter people won't get enough pressure relief for comfortable side sleeping.

Unlike some Medium-Firm mattresses, it doesn't provide good support, regardless of your weight category. Lighter people get decent support, making it a satisfactory option for back/stomach sleeping, but otherwise, you'll want a more supportive mattress if you're a dedicated back/stomach sleeper.

This mattress's polyfoam and fiber fill quilted is quite soft and not very thick, so all but the lightest people will compress it completely and interact with the somewhat firmer polyfoam layer below. There's also a thin strip of memory foam in the lumbar area, which adds some extra cushioning under your lower back while also helping you avoid feeling the springs too much if you compress the upper layers.

The support layer is made of pocket coils, which are individually encased in fabric, offering better contouring and motion isolation compared to other types of springs. The 15-gauge springs are on the softer side, but since the layer is very dense, it feels firmer overall. The spring layer gives the mattress its firmness, as the foam layers above are all quite soft, and helps provide support for the heavier parts of your body. However, because the mattress's foam layers are quite thin, they also create a firmer feel for lighter individuals, making it less comfortable for side sleeping.

The quilted upper comfort layer is quite soft, allowing most people to easily compress it and also sink slightly into the firmer polyfoam layer below. However, lighter people won't fully compress the quilted layer, so this Medium-Firm mattress creates uncomfortable pressure points for them. The strip of memory foam in the lumbar area is also soft, which allows you to sink into it if your hips compress both layers above.

The spring layer is quite firm, especially at the head/foot of the mattress. This helps provide support, but because the foam layers above are quite thin, the firm springs also hurt its pressure relief performance, especially for lighter people.

None of the foam layers is dense enough to be considered good quality. Compared with higher-quality foams, they'll start to sag, form permanent indentations, and break down sooner.

The body conformity performance of this mattress varies significantly depending on your weight category. It performs best for people in the heavier weight category, as it compresses easily enough to relieve pressure, especially when sleeping on your side. It offers satisfactory body conformity for average-weight people as well, making it a decent option for side sleepers in that weight category. However, it's not conforming enough to effectively relieve pressure for lighter side sleepers.

This mattress's upper comfort layers contour closely around you, creating a moderately hugging feel and adding pressure relief. However, you won't sink very much into it, so it's not extremely enveloping.

This mattress doesn't offer great support regardless of your weight, but it at least offers adequate support for most people. It performs best for lighter individuals, who will receive decent support, making it suitable for side and back sleeping, but less ideal for stomach sleeping, where support is especially crucial to prevent your back from arching. It offers an adequate performance for average-weight people and a similar but slightly worse performance for heavier people, so the heavier parts of your body, like your hips, will sink in a little further than is ideal for back or stomach sleeping.

The Beautyrest BRS900 has a good cooling performance, making it a suitable option for people who don't usually sleep hot. However, its cooling is somewhat slow when you first get into bed, so it's not ideal for hot sleepers who need a mattress with a cool feel when falling asleep.

It offers decent motion isolation. You'll feel both smaller and larger movements, both near the source and all over the mattress. However, motion dissipates quickly. When your partner rolls over, you'll feel it briefly, but it won't make the mattress wobble or bounce, which makes it less likely to disturb you.

The sleeping surface recovers its shape almost instantly after being compressed, so it'll adapt to your movements right away, and you won't feel stuck in place.

The springs have a lot of bounce, so they push back when pressure is applied. This helps give the mattress its springy feel and makes it easy to move around on.

This mattress is very bouncy. This makes moving around in your sleep feel effortless, and if you like the classic, lively feel of a spring mattress, it's a good option.

The foam used in the quilted comfort layer and upper comfort foam has a good amount of bounce. This helps give the mattress a bouncy feel, allowing you to move around easily during sleep. The lower-comfort foam isn't very resilient, which is expected for memory foam. This adds a little bit of contouring and pressure relief for your hips, but since it's just a strip of memory foam in the lumbar area, it doesn't affect the mattress's overall bounciness very much.

The Beautyrest Silver has fantastic edge support. The edges of the bed don't compress very much under pressure. They also compress evenly, so if you sit or sleep near the side of the mattress, you won't feel pushed out of bed.

The edges of the bed are reinforced with firm polyfoam at the support layer, which helps make the edges very sturdy.