Cole Kan/CNET Sound the alarms -- a new bed just dropped. Hearing this is breaking news in the world of sleep experts and mattress testers. When a mattress brand releases a new or updated bed or lineup of mattresses, CNET's sleep experts and certified sleep science coaches are usually the first to know about it (and likely the most excited).
We immediately begin making predictions about the new bed and what we think its firmness, feel, look, price and so on will be. It's like Christmas morning every time we receive and unbox a new bed at our mattress warehouse. We asked our sleep experts their favorite mattress brands of all time to test.
Below are the brands we're most eager to review, as well as our sleep experts' favorite overall beds from each mattress maker. Learn more: A behind-the-scenes look at how we test mattresses Mattress price scale: $ = Budget: $799 and below $$ = Average: $800 to $1,699 $$$ = Premium: $1,700 and up These reflect MSRP or list prices. Sales might make a mattress less expensive, but are always changing.
Jon Gomez/CNET Dillon Payne's favorite DreamCloud "The bed-in-a-box movement took the world by storm over eight years ago, and DreamCloud immediately stole a piece of my heart. The first DreamCloud mattress I tested in 2017 was the brand's flagship model, which gave me the luxurious feel at the affordable price I was looking for. I've since graduated to a king-size but still have DreamCloud in my guest room for all to experience," -- Dillon Payne, .