Hello! My name is Ben, and I hail from the great state of Maine. Yesterday, I finally decided to replace my old mattress and make my fist purchase of a new bed (not that I'm 30, lol). Keep in mind, I'm a big guy, coming in at 6' and 280lbs. Anyways, I went up to Bob's Discount, based on a friends review, and purchased a $1000 firm gel foam bobopedic. I knew their furniture was garbage, but was under the impression the mattresses were decent. The salesman was showing me a few options, and at one point told me he 'didn't know why anyone would want a firm mattress', which seemed rather odd coming from a mattress salesman. The bed seemed comfortble for the brief period of time I spent on it. Since I have a really hard time making a desiccation, and often end up researching for months before I pull the trigger, I just decided I would buy it and not waste only more of my valuable time. Well, I got home and found your website. After reading through your tutorial, and reading about what a bad experience Phoenix had attempting to find out the density of foam Bob's uses, I got nervous and started looking for a better option. This led me to Dreamfoam. Everyone seemed to be in love with their products, they were highly recommended on this site, but the only choices I saw were in plush and ultra plush. Then I found the Dreamfoam Aria, a firm option from their gel foam line. 3" of 4 lbs. gel foam on top of 1" of 4 lbs memory foam, on an 8" base they describe as HD PolyFoam. A thick base, with quality materials in both layers as far as I could tell. So I decided I would order that and cancel my order from Bob's. After reading even more, I came to find a post about how dream foam started using 1.5 lbs. poly foam, and that Phoenix said 1.5 lbs is fine for people under 200 lbs. Now I have 2 mattresses on order from 2 different vendors, and I'm unsure if either is a good choice! Is the dream foam going to hold up for me? Do you have a recommendation for something else that I should look at?