From my post yesterday on a different thread.
The Cronus BTR is AWESOME for the money. I had paid $1,250 for mine, but I think Camera Land had them for $1,000 delivered a while back.
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I purchased an Athlon Cronus BTR (gen 1) 4.5-29x56 about a year ago. I paid $1,250 delivered for the scope. The scope is manufactured at the LOW factory in Japan. I test this new Steiner M7xi ($2,774) scope against the Cronus today.
IQ: The Cronus has a clearer image over the M7xi, especially going above 20x.
CA: The Cronus has about 3-4x less CAs than the M7xi. The M7xi was fairly prevalent while I had to really search for any CAs with the Cronus.
Tunneling: There was no tunneling with the Cronus while tunneling existed from 4x to 5x with the M7xi.
Turrets: Turrets were far more positive on the M7xi while the Cronus was less “clicky’ and felt a tad mushy.
Sa far, I much prefer the Cronus regarding CAs and IQ.