Also a huge corona fan. Such a pleasure to work with. I love the tynex & chinex brushes especially, also they make one of the better oxhair brushes I've used.
Wooster also makes excellent brushes, no matter what name they brand it with. (NOT a huge fan of the Wooster-made ICI white china brushes tho, I find they shed too much for my liking. Other than that, great stuff.)
I own a few Purdy brushes but very rarely buy new ones. The hockey stick brushes can be very handy, and I have used a couple of Purdy "prototype" 100% chinex brushes - I actually loved them. These 2 brushes were sent to me by an employee of the Purdy factory up in Oregon, they were both 2.5" chinex brushes but one had a super-fine bristle, about half the diameter of my Corona chinex bristles. Super-fine finish. If these are ever released, I'll be buying Purdy again... until then, I'll stick with Corona & Wooster primarily.
They have an ad that states pro painters rate Purdy over Wooster 80% to 20%.
Probably 80% of painters in my area are so cheap that they buy the lowest grade of coatings they can get at Walmart, BigLots, Sears, or a big box... since most or all of these guys have never set foot in a real paint distributor before, they don't know where to get Wooster brushes. So the question becomes: where did they get their pros to survey in order to come up with this 80% figure? To get this kind of statistic, I'd think they were gathering their "pro opinions" in the big orange box's parking lot.