With your eye relief issue, both the Meopta HD and the Conquest HD are try before you buy. There are actually quite a lot of complaints on most forums about the eye relief not being right and eye placement being finicky on both of those binoculars. Mostly they seem to be with blackouts from lack of enough extension from the eye cups.
Steve,
Again I fail to understand how the problems you relate apply to me. Lack of extension from eye cups is a problem for people that don't wear glasses. I've yet to see a case where excessive eye relief was a problem for people that wear glasses.
Conversely, I have seen a reciew of the B2 Mavens that indicated they don't have the advertised eye relief. Again, not a problem if you don't wear glasses, major aggravation if you do.
Regards,
David
