I currently have a SW 120ED, and I was also thinking about this refractor at the time. Same optics as TS Photoline, StellarVue, Altair, etc. On the Cloudy Nights forums there was discussion regarding the quality of the optics of these tubes. The interferometric reports that StellarVue offered upon request, as Altair does in all those it sells, were made on 95% of the lens (from Altair I don't know), not on 100%, apparently in order to mask something the real quality of the optics. Finally StellarVue stopped selling them, I don't really know why. Certainly the mechanical quality is superior to that of the SW, although I doubt that it is optically. I also consulted with Jon Teus, a Spanish salesperson who reviews for Tribuna de Astronomía magazine and whom I totally trust. He told me that the SW had better quality control in terms of optics.
Some reviews:
Interferometric tests from https://teleskop-austria.at/ and http://r2.astro-foren.com/index.php/de/ http://interferometrie.blogspot.com/2015/04/120900-equinox-and-ed-apo.html http://r2.astro-foren.com/index.php/de/berichte/02-ed-optiken-halb-apos-und-frauenhofer-systeme