runsongas
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getting kits from NESS is easy if you don't mind they are aftermarket. so it is a wash on the DIY front.
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It's not that they're expensive, it's that they are something like 10-15% more expensive in the US market than they are in Europe which is irritating
Dive Rite imports their regs from Taiwan as well, I'm not sure I'd use a companies historic legacy as a buying criteria when they don't actually manufacture their own regulators. This applies to essentially everyone except Poseidon, Scubapro, Apeks, Aqualung, and Mares. I'm sure I'm missing someone else, but essentially everyone else is important at least part of their regulators from the big OEM's in Taiwan, and yes that includes Atomic.
What about TUSA?