Is the MK2/R190 obsolete?

[Eric Sedletzky]

a large part of it is markup. the regs get marked up twice once they leave the factory, by scubapro and then the LDS. it probably is like a 80 dollar set if you could buy it directly from TUSA or whoever oems it.

Scubapro used to be made in Italy the last time I checked, but who knows anymore?

 

[tbone1004]

also remember that the place for that type of reg is largely in rental fleets where the dealers are able to get it for somewhere between a third and half of the cost that LP is selling it. That's a justified place for it with scubapro dealers. Is it obsolete as a regulator that a diver should purchase? I think it was a decade ago, but especially so now...