Brands

Where each maker is strong, and what it costs you elsewhere

Nearly every maker here is convincing in one part of the range and unremarkable across the rest — a house that cuts excellent shells may fit the visor mechanism that undoes them. These pages say which part, what it costs to stay inside one maker’s fittings once its visors and pads are the only ones that fit, and which apparently separate brands turn out to be the same factory under different labels.