Brad,
No one asked about "the best", the question was about your favorite.
Great post
! Presently my favorite is a 7X50 Nikon. This is after lots and lots of side by side comparison.
If I had money to burn I would go with the only binoculars that gave me the Wow
! factor. That was a few years ago when I looked through a Swarovski I think was a 8.5X42 or something like that. but of course I would get an 50mm objective.