Vector,

From what I have heard, PSE bought out Browning, and maybe that is why the design of the bows has changed.

I can' t speak for the new ZLX Brownings, but, the Mirage 33S, Eclipse SLX, and Eclipse SL that I shot about a month ago highly disappointed me. These were the 2002 models, and, I thought " I love my friends 01 Browning Tornado, so these things have tp be amazing" , yeah right. The overall look of the bows is entirely different than the pics I saw on the internet, atleast camo wise. The bow is much darker and without as much camo definition. The grip was irritable in the hand, and, didn' t look like the ones that I saw on the intenet.
Now, as far as performance. I didn' t shoot the bow, and the only reason I didn' t was because I didn' t want to. I drew each of them back a few times and could not believe how rough the draw cycle was. The best word to describe it is gritty. The overall quality of these three bows was lacking compared to my friends Tornado.
The bows are also not as balanced as I would like. They seemed to lean backwords alot, and, I am sure that a stabilizer would help, but, it would have to be very heavy and long.

My honest opinion is that the Tornado' s are a better overall bow than last years Mirage' s and Eclipse' s. You only loose a few feet per second, but, you gain a much more balanced bow, that has a much smoother draw cycle, and you save a few hundred dollars.

I might go check out the new Brownings sometime, but, I hope that this new design helped out, because I was truly disappointed with last years models.