It looks great... I wonder how it breathes?
I was a fanatical Tekna and Omega diver back in the 80s. My regs were stolen in the early 90s and were not replaceable at that time.
If the new ones breathe like the old, they will be without equal, once you master them.
The servos, just amazing. I tuned them so they would deliver air with the purge button submerged in 2" of water. You almost had to exhale ever so slightly to keep the reg from force-feeding you air. I did this on purpose as I learned to have total control over my breathing this way. This is not for everyone, by the way. But, once you learned it, you could NEVER overbreathe these regs, no matter how deep or how hard you were working. I dove them 250' on the Wilkes-Barre and they were smooth as silk. When diving deep wrecks off Miami in very strong currents, going up and down anchor lines, no amount of effort or exertion ever gave me that "I'm not getting enough air" feeling. They delivered air effortlessly by just opening your airway, you did not have to consciouisly inhale under normal conditions. And when the work was hard, they actually would "feed" you gallons and gallons of air if you sucked on them.
Because of the way I aggressively tuned them, they could "stutter" on shallow (30' or less), but that was easily done away with once you mastered your breathing technique.
In sum, they were the best of the best, took some time and care to learn, but they quickly became instinctive to use.
Oh, I forgot the delight of the featherweight second stage,
never any jaw fatigue!
Right now, I have Apex XTX and my wife has scubapro Mk 25-S600, both adjusted as aggressively as possible. We swap back and forth and of the two I think hers is the easier breather, by a little. But, and I know memory is a tricky thing, I do not view either of these as breathing as well as my Teknas and Omegas. Working hard against the currents in Jupiter when navigating around the wrecks, I have, once or twice, had the impression that I wanted more air than I could get from the regs, something I never felt with the servos.
I am going to see if Force-E will let me test dive the new Hollis or Omega, just to see if it would be worth a change.
