Basically I agree - with a few proviso's however. Firstly, my views are not reflective of price. I would offer the argument that some of the high priced refractors eg NP127 TSA120 are in fact better value for money in the context that folks tend to use them more (overall actual time behind the EP) than their 14" SCT etc and thus from their overall usage they are arguably better value. I would love to take a look through a TV127 as I suspect the view would be pretty good.
However, one claim from Tak which I initially thought was pure b#$%*$@# was that their fluorite refractors can achieve 100x magnification per inch on bright objects. This claim appears in the manuals and also can be found on astronomics site
http://www.astronomics.com/main/prod...roduct_id/FS60
Anyhow, I tried my FS-60 on Saturn and was dumbfounded/shocked at what 60mm of Tak 100% flourite (not flourite particle lens) could achieve - I took it up to 200x and could see plenty (bands, belts etc).