The Brayebrooke Observatory website is well worth a browse. Lots of info and some good historical and technical stuff on eyepieces.
Chris Lord seems to share your opinion on the price of 4 element eyepieces Wavytone; Here is a link to a pdf file comparing Brandon, Televue and GSO plossls:
http://www.brayebrookobservatory.org...%20Brandon.pdf