"Have now seen two more 85's and one more 95 ATX.
Image quality in the second 95 looked just as good if not a bit better even than in the first 95. I only tested it indoors today, at the shop where I don't know the exact distance to the target. The target is the Edmunds glass slide, mounted in front of a white sheet of paper (but not against it) with a window behind and a halogen desk light illuminating the slide from about a 40 degree angle from the front, about a foot from the slide. They have used this setup to check a lot of scopes, and I have checked perhaps a half-dozen there this way. Kowa 883's can let you see the orientation of the line pattern in group 3/elemnt 6 there providing the sample is good, but only barely. Other scopes are considered good samples if they make 3/5. The 95 makes 3/6 easy, and 4/1 can be resolved to my standard of what I consider resolved. The 85 there today struggled with 3/5 but resolved it. My Nikon (did not have it today) has also barely resolved the 3/6 there. Unboosted star-testing with giny glitter points on a chrystal/gold Swarovski miniature binocular bling-bling item showed ecellent symmetry in diffraction patterns, easily discernible rings either side of focus already at 2-3 rings, and no other defects besides some triangularity that resembles slight pinching, but fortunately with no flare from the roundish corners. Trying the same objective with the back that came with the 85 added an ever so slight bit of astigmatism, just enough to prevent seeing the orientation of the horizontal 4/1, and made the focus a tad more difficult to achieve. The 85 showed a more messy diffraction pattern, but still good by most standards. The 85 that I saw at another store last Thursday was significantly better, about as good relatively speaking as the two 95's. All of the ATX's I've been able to look at diffraction-patterns with have exhibited tiny amounts of coma as well, but in only one 85mm was it enough to begin to compromise the image a little."
So, my observations are very similar to yours, and put together they give a very favorable first impression of the general quality of these unusually complex scopes. I was certainly worried about excessive sample differences, but our admittedly small sample has not yet included any lemons.
Kimmo