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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3668299" data-attributes="member: 109211">I think James is right: anecdotal evidence is interesting but is likely to be misleading. There was a time when a steady trickle of complaints about Swarovski focusers (including one from me) gave the impression to some (especially Brock) that Swaros were fatally flawed in this respect. This reaction totally ignored the fact that Swaro has been for years, and still is, the biggest selling alpha, and this doesn't happen with fatally flawed binos.My best answer to Dennis's question is this: on the two biggest nature reserves local to my home town, there are two brands that I commonly see being carried by every member of groups of visitors. I see many brands there, and sometimes might see two people together carrying the same brand, but there are only two brands where I am no longer surprised to see a group of 3-4 people all carrying the same one.The two brands are Swarovski and Opticron.This situation has pertained for the last 10 years at least so I am confident that the opinions about these brands that get shared between folks are consistently good and this has gone on for so long I conclude that reliability and therefore build quality is maintained at a consistently high level.Lee</blockquote>