I had an "Ingraham moment" in the spring when I went to an all day bird count at a state park with mostly local bird club members in attendance.
They all had roofs, from low/midpriced Chinese roofs - 8x42 Vortex Fury, 8x36 Pentax NV, to high end baby and big ELs.
The park naturalist had half a dozen Celestron Outland LXs and two Monarchs, one his own, available for visitors.
While I was curious to try all of them, only two birders were interested in trying my 8x32 SEs. "Are those old Zeiss porros?" one asked, apparently never having seen this "species" up close.
The naturalist took a look through the SE and said, "Wow!" these are sharp and give a very natural view (who would know better than a naturalist? ;-).
The Pentax owner also tried the SE and thought they were "cool". He had a Nikon spotting scope, and he tried the Monarch but liked his Pentax NV better since they were easier to hold and gave a wider FOV (even though there is only 3/10* difference, the AFOV in the Pentax seems noticeably wider than the Monarch, I agree with him about that).
The naturalist later came over with a pad and pencil and wrote down the name of the SE (I mentioned that they were actually called "Superior E" since the label on the bins just "says" "Nikon 8x32 7.5*". I told him that the SE is still available by special order through some online stores and named the stores, which he wrote down.
I saw him once since at the opening of a new nature education building at our local marsh nature center, but forgot to ask if he ever bought a pair of SEs.
Brock