Hmmm, I don't really have a recommendation in terms of brand but I'll tell you what I like and don't like in a cage:
1. I don't really care if they have a play top or a dome as long as the dome is not small. My birds are all fully flighted and the play tops are wasted on them because they never stay in one place so, unless you are planning on clipping the bird (which I do NOT recommend) and making him sit in one place and one place alone (which will make the bird miserable), the play top will not be really needed. Besides, my birds would much rather have tree branches sticking up that they can climb and chew than a perfectly parallel to the floor dowel or manzanita branch -I don't like manzanita because the birds can't peel it or chew it. I hang chewy toys and knotted ropes from the smaller tree branches (I get a larger branch that has little branches coming off it and tie it to the cage with more rope) and it makes a much better 'playtop' than the actual ones that cages bring (I have a few of those in my basement collecting dust
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2. I don't like cages with tops that reach lower than my shoulders. Birds feel safe only when they are high or, at least, perching at your eye level so the cages that are real big but that go from a few inches off the floor to, say, four ft high are not good enough in my opinion.
3. I don't like the cages that have one flat roof and one domed one because, usually (I am not saying this is the case with the one you mentioned), these cages are too low and the bird ends up perching ONLY on the higher part so they 'live' in half the actual width of the cage -and that's always too narrow (this is the kind I am talking about:https://www.hayneedle.com/product/deluxeparrotcagewithplaytoparea.cfm)
4. I have found that parrots mostly use only the top part of the cage so I prefer cages that are not THAT high inside the cage but are high overall. I don't know if I am explaining myself correctly but what I mean is that I like cages that are high so the bird can perch at the same level of your head but this is not because of the actual height of the inside of cage but because it has tall legs. The cages that start a few inches off the floor and go high are fine but you will end up cleaning a lot of cage that is never used by the bird.
5. I prefer cages which have 'moat bridge' doors instead of the 'door' like ones. This is because, with these cages, all I have to do is open the door and they have a little platform they use for taking off and landing. With the 'door' like ones, you need to put a perch outside the cage near the door to make it easier on them.
6. I like cages that are white, ecru or a very light beige. I have a couple of dark cages, one black and one green. The black is a very large double macaw cage that came with a bird I took in and the green I bought myself years ago and it's actually one of my best cages because it's VERY roomy and easy to clean (it also has very narrow bars) but I would not get it today. The reason I don't like them is personal. I think that if I had to spend time in a cage, I would not like black bars all around me -I would find them oppressive. I think that light colored cages give a better feeling of spaciousness and freedom than dark colored ones. Mind you, this might very well be just my imagination and nothing else but birds are meant to be in open spaces so I think that anything that helps them in that sense is beneficial.
7. Believe it or not, I prefer older (used) cages to the newer ones. I have found that the older cages have better powder coating. I mean, you can put those cages out in the rain and they would never get a single spot of rust - those things are practically bullet-proof! And I know this for a fact because I bought the green cage I was telling you about (it's the one that Zoey and Sweetpea Senegal live in) from CL and, when I went to pick it up, I realized they had left it outside for quite a long time (it has dried leaves and stuff all over it) but not a single spot was chipped or rusted - and it's still looking exactly the same years later!. While the newer ones look great but you will find that they start to chip and rust in a couple of years if not sooner.
8. I also don't care if the bowls are stainless steel or plastic (there is a difference in pricing with, of course, the ones with SS bowls being more expensive) because I always have two complete sets (plus enough extras to make a third set, if I needed) so I always have to buy bowls separately anyway.
With a Meyers or a Brownhead, you can use 3/4 or 5/8 and even 1/2 bar gauge without a problem.