Both brands come from Sweden, sit in the same high segment and promise decades of life, but they build differently: DUX works with continuous spring layers and replaceable top layers, Hästens with hand-layered horsehair. In practice DUX often feels springier and Hästens more enveloping — and that difference is settled by your body, not by a table.
DUX is known for its spring construction and for the idea that a bed should be maintainable and adjustable: top layers can be replaced if your body or your preference changes. That is a strong argument for a bed meant to last decades.
Hästens places the emphasis elsewhere: natural fibres, hand-layered, with the bed deriving its properties precisely from that build-up as a whole. Less modular, more of a single piece.
Broadly, many people experience DUX as springier — you lie more on it — and Hästens as more enveloping, sinking further in. That is a preference, not a quality judgement, and it cuts across age, weight and sleeping position.
Precisely because it is a matter of feel, this is the worst possible comparison to make on paper and the best one to make lying down. Ten showroom minutes are too short for it: the first sensation on lying down is excellent with both brands.
We sell Hästens and not DUX, and you may weigh that in. What we won't do is make DUX smaller than it is: it is an excellent brand with a defensible philosophy, and for some people the better choice.
What SleepSpa adds is not a verdict between these two brands, but the chance to have a real night within Hästens. If you are torn between the brands, arrange a serious test at both — and don't accept ten minutes as an answer.
Both brands build for decades and give a long warranty on the construction. The practical difference is more about care: with DUX the top layers are meant to be replaced, with Hästens it is about regularly turning and rotating the bed itself.
No, there is Hästens only. Anyone wanting to weigh the brands against each other will have to arrange their own test at a DUX dealer.