Redfield, Simmons, and Weaver have all been bought by the Meade company (telescopes). They are all manufactured under the same parent company now and will all have very similar qualities about them.

I'm sure that Meade being in control the new scopes will be of very good quality.

I noticed that the Simmons master series of scopes have been made with machined one piece tubes and a lot less parts than before. A huge improvement right there.