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Originally Posted by astro744
Good eyepiece + good mirror = good view
Good eyepiece + bad mirror = bad view
Bad eyepiece + good mirror = bad view
Bad eyepiece + bad mirror = bad view
Just remember the eyepiece is half your telescope.
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Not even close. A cheap (not defective! just cheap) eyepiece will show you close to 99% (on axis) of what a "premium" one will, even in a perfect scope.
You will need a special subject (say, tiny low contrast details on Jupiter), once in a year seeing and lots of patience to see the difference between a ZAOII, AP superplanetary or TMB monocentric and an inexpensive no brand Ortho ("Tanny"). Been there, done that. Sold my "premium" set.
Read what people like Dragesco and Texereau have to say about it. Newsgroups and blogs are hardly a reference when it comes to optics.