I don't know if suspect, but certainly not an even-handed compare. First off the AP was not masked to 85mm, so that throws off the compare right away. In my own tests between various scopes when I do a compare between ones with slightly different apertures, the results always fall the way it did for this compare, the larger aperture scope appears better on stars, globs, etc., and the slightly smaller one always seems to do a tad better on planets (which I surmise is because the little less brightness does accentuate surface feartures most of the times when doing direct compares and does make the background space look more stark). Other confounding variable was the use of two different brand diagonals between the scopes. So would have been a more "level" compare if the same eyepiece/diagonal combo was used for both, and if the apertures were masked so equivalent. So IMO this review needs to be read with these things in mind. Still a very interesting compare.