Main body of pad is light foam, with thin gel layer in top in the convex section that meets your head. This is so well cut in width and in length, they might make other shoes, even my Naot or Dansko or Mephisto seem a lot less comfortable. Overall I like it. You can toggle it on and off as you needI did have the older versions and can confirm that these are louder and have better call quality. I like these 360 degree set-ups, which do produce a bigger sound than front facing types, and these speakers really fill up a room, especially paired, although even one is impressive and worth the asking price here. They did finally offer to RMA it after about a month of waiting, but again, did not read any questions I had as I was asking things in our back and forth (assuming its not just a bot/copy paste, which it certainly seems to be). BAD I have the black ones. I have got six of this for the Church purpose. This is where you start to notice the problems.