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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3628459" data-attributes="member: 56622">I am sure the HG is a superlative binocular.  Just like the other current class $1,000 binoculars are.  I would dearly love to get my hands on one for a good workout.  The field worthy comment was interrupted by the telephone which call caused me to need to leave pronto.  I said in the recent comparative review I recently posted that there was not what I considered a true field worthy difference.  That difference has to show up in definitive fashion in normal hand held use.When I need to pour over resolution charts on tripod mounted binoculars to ferret out differences, I don't consider those differences to be of much consequence.  When one compares the Maven C1 and B1, the value thing surely kicks in.  We have no idea how they evaluated the value aspect.  I'd have a hard time telling somebody to buy a B1 instead of the C1 if money was a difference.  The B1 is better, but precious little better.  Ditto the GPO Passion HD and ED.Because I declined to rate the binoculars in the review, that does not mean I can't.  I have picked too many nits for that to matter a lot to me any more.  I realize the potential existence of any sort of discernible difference assume greater value for some users than it does for others.That is a very interesting article.  What we need is for some publication to do that as a blind test where the testers only have a disguised binocular with a number on it.</blockquote>

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