"particularly at a price I can afford ??"

They are there, but that's the issue. You can get into some Swaro's or Zeiss's for about 3 grand.

I have a Leupold TBR-1000 that I've been using for 5+ years and have no complaints, and my binos are Monarchs from before when they started with the 3 - 5 - 7 designation, so I'm not really sure which current ones they are comparable to, but again, no complaints.

One thing about having the binos and rangefinder separate is that sometimes I don't feel like carrying my binos around for certain hunts (whitetails in the woods for example) and the rangefinder, which fits in a pocket, can double as a monocular.