I spend some time at Tinny's site and not long ago he did a test on the neo-air pad. He seemed to like the durability of the pad and he said that it was comfortable, but the entire time that he was demo'ing this pad it was making some real noise; enough noise to distract any one from sleeping I would think. This is the main reason that I never even considered the neo-air pad. There is no way that I could tolerate all that noise..My Big Agnes pad makes no noise what-so-ever and I think that's a bonus trade off...in my mind any way...sabre11004...