- Messages
- 17,334
- Reaction score
- 13,745
- # of dives
- 100 - 199
I'm pretty certain there's a reason DS4/XTX40 (or XTX50, or ATX40/50) seems to be by far the most popular reg set among the tech crowd on this side of the pond. Not sure what that reason is, but it has made me standardize on middle range Apeks regs myself.The only reason I went with a DS4 is that it's sealed, it's also smaller and just as simple to service requiring no speciality tools, bar a pin spanner which isn't really specialty anyway.
I won't, however, recommend Apeks without reservations to anyone since I have the impression that the service situation is slightly different depending on which side of the pond you're located. But one can at least note that those Apekses are diaphragm 1st stages.