I’m not bashing Stellarvue, but they don’t make their own scopes, they just get them labelled that way in China. What you pay for is the quality control. The same is true for many scopes and other industries.
That APM looks the ducks nuts, LZOS optics to boot
although looking at the spot diagrams, I’d suck it up and just image at f/6
Edit: Stellarvue claim that the lenses for their SVX scopes are hand figured in California, which explains the price. They seem to have diversified...