Question Streamlined (longhose) regulator sets for Europe?

[Antonios (Holy Diver)]

Hi to all fellow Scubaboarders

I am a casual, inexperienced rec diver from Greece (<70 dives) who dives locally with a single tank (max.15 dives per year in warm blue waters). I am interested in buying my first regulator set, and after finishing the first part of GUE Fundamentals course, I favor the "streamlined", Hogarthian configuration (primary longhose/secondary on necklace along with BP/W vs. traditional octopus with a jacket BCD). It seems there are not many budget choices for a casual open water diver, apart from this set from DGX: DGX Custom - DGX Gears D6 Single Tank Reg Package.
Nevertheless, and althought the DGX client support assured me that their regulators can be serviced almost anywhere, I cannot find any dive shops in my region nor in Athens that can service that brand of regulators, so I feel a bit reluctant to purchase it. Also, I would like to find a European manufactured brand due to high import fees for any item outside EU. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe I should buy a generic, easily serviceable brand like Aqualung and then convert it to long-hose with a kit like this? Halcyon Dive Systems
At first glance such a conversion seems relatively easy, judging by those videos:
Thank you in advance

(P.S.: Mods, feel free to move this thread to another category if you deem it necessary)

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

If it was me I'd buy Scubapro.
You're in Greece, so Scubapro is a better deal than what we have to pay here in the US for that brand.
Scubapro is the most stable brand in the world right now IMO.
Like Nemrod said, parts are available for many models past and will be available for many models in the future.
I'd get a MK25 which is their flagship model balanced piston 1st stage and pair it up with a pair of G260's.
One second stage on a 22" hose bungeed under your chin and the other on a 7' long hose, and a simple 1-1/2" glass and brass SPG on a short HP hose clipped off to your left hip D-ring on your Back Plate and Wing. Run the long hose off the end port of the first stage with the barrel pointing down and to the right. On the other side your SPG will go down at an angle off your left side. Everything will be Hog configured for your DIR adventures.
You can easily change out all the hoses yourself. In fact to be DIR you will need to know how to do a lot of this stuff including spinning off your second stage covers and clearing out debris in the second stage as you're diving underwater. That is why they require second stages that can be taken apart underwater.