I've been using a Polar CS600X since last fall with no complaints. Polar has a wide variety of products so they probably have the combination of features that you want in one of them. I've no reason to steer you away from other brands either, Polar is sold at a good discount at the company health club, it would have been foolish for me to use something else. If you belong to a health club you might check with them to see if they offer good prices on HRMs.

Most Polar products come with a means to download data from the HRM to your PC and an analysis program that you can use to view it. Those are good features to have and I assume most other brands offer the same so when you compare, look at those items too. One brand's supporting features may suit you better than another's. Actually I do have one minor complaint about my Polar, the USB to IR adapter that came with it was a very fine, professional looking piece of junk. I could hardly make it function at all and at one point when I tried to write some data back to the Polar unit the poor communications link managed to put it in "Equine Mode" somehow. Yes, my Polar was convinced that I was a horse! I had to call Polar tech support to get the magic handshake of button presses that allowed me to turn back into a bicyclist again. It cost me maybe $12 to buy a properly functioning replacement USB/IR adapter and the whole thing has worked very well ever since.

Ken