Laugh at me if you will, but I bought the $200 Ti Atomic for myself. Last one I'll ever need to buy. Period.
1) Better buttonology than the standard inflator. I'm tired of crooking my wrist around the corner to inflate, or holding it backwards to use thumb and forefinger, but having the mouthpiece facing away. Simple thumb press for both inflate and deflate, or two fingers if it's in your mouth. But Scubapro can claim the same thing.
2) More important - you can't avoid water retention on the seal around the valve stems. Corrosion on the non-titanium metal designs, or fatigue breakage on the plastic designs was something I was tired of servicing on others' BCDs.
3) Titanium. Yeah, you rinse your bcd, but salt just seems to hang inside that mechanism, and one thing I
never want to have is a stuck inflator. Zero corrosion on my Ti inflator. How many folks get their regs serviced, but never bring their bcd in until it fails?
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So like I said, laugh at me if you want to, but that ridiculously expensive inflator was a good value in my mind. I bet you've wasted $200 on something scuba-related once in your life, too. And yeah, it comes with connectors for all hose sizes.