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ES is the Chinese manufacturer who's been making Meade EPs for many years. All the ES designs have come out of original Meade production. The SWA's (ES 68's), UWA's (82's), and 100's - the focal lengths are the same. Meade took the TV's, and with ES, redesigned them to produce their line. Meade now has pretty much abandoned EPs from its range, other than the UWA that ES still makes for them. ES's parent company has now grown to have bought out Meade!
It's not right to say the "Meade flavour" when these EPs are actually Meade's in the first place. ES grew out of Meade. ES has been steadily reworking the original Meade designs with their own spin, such as Nitrogen and Argon purging. But the optics proper haven't changed.
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