I have the non-twilight Legend LX Supreme for single tank. Love it.
New to diving - first reg purchase recommendations
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Both good choices I’ve serviced both many times. For a warm water vacation diver just stay with yoke. If you go with the atomic I wouldn’t get the sealed first stage. In my opinion they are messy and expensive to service. I’ve also seen a lot of them that aren’t serviced regularly trap water behind the environmental seal and cause issues. What ever you choose get something with good local support all the big name regulators are good quality and will give you years of enjoyment. Have fun!!!
MrBlenny
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I went the DIN with yoke adapter route on my xtx50 and haven't had any complaints. Some of the shops in warm water locations are adding DIN tanks to their stock, as well, so you may not even have to use the adapter 
Doctor Rig
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SashNorCal
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Thanks for all of your input! I’m ordering this week in time for my next dive. Still debating DIN vs yoke.
Bob DBF
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If predominantly yoke where you dive, buy yoke. Order a DIN conversion, that way you can convert if the need arises, and no pesky adaptor.. Also, it will increase the value of the reg if you sell it on ScubaBoard down the road.
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Divectionist
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I am firmly in the camp of only buying DIN regs + a lightweight stone age adapter for backwards places. The Scubapro adapter is much lighter than most others I've held, and I've used it without a hitch.
Where I dive (Australia), most dive operators have DIN tanks with yoke valve inserts, I carry a bunch of hex key sizes in my reg bag to screw them out. Depending on where you live, you can probably still do 80-100% diving on DIN. If that is the case, then I would opt for DIN because it is objectively the better system.
One thing to do when buying a DIN reg is to purchase a delrin screw in cap that will seal with the O ring for rinsing/submerging the 1st stage, the rubber dust caps are simply popped on and do not make the 1st stage watertight.
As for brands, I would personally only browse the Scubapro and Atomic catalogues for regs based on their quality track record and long-term user satisfaction in conditions way beyond rec diving.
Where I dive (Australia), most dive operators have DIN tanks with yoke valve inserts, I carry a bunch of hex key sizes in my reg bag to screw them out. Depending on where you live, you can probably still do 80-100% diving on DIN. If that is the case, then I would opt for DIN because it is objectively the better system.
One thing to do when buying a DIN reg is to purchase a delrin screw in cap that will seal with the O ring for rinsing/submerging the 1st stage, the rubber dust caps are simply popped on and do not make the 1st stage watertight.
As for brands, I would personally only browse the Scubapro and Atomic catalogues for regs based on their quality track record and long-term user satisfaction in conditions way beyond rec diving.
84CJ7
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I agree with the people that say DIN is better for technical reasons, everything except my vintage stuff is DIN now but I also own my own tanks and travel very little. I do have a DIN to yoke adapter just in case though I have never used it.
As was said you could convert the reg you are looking at to DIN fairly easy down the road as well.
I feel you overpay (A LOT) for the reg you are looking at but what you get is an excellent breathing reg that you basically will never outgrow. The sealed supreme 1st stage is nice even in warm water only diving to keep the salt out of the inner workings.
If you aren't scared of used there are a number of Legend LX Supremes for sale used at any given time for half of new it seems and many claim to be recently serviced.
Aqualung is a good brand for people that don't service their own gear because there are so many dealers, and also good for the people that do service their own gear because its usually super easy to get parts for them from various sources online. Some of the arguably better (or at least equal) more technical oriented brands mentioned by others are not so common in many places.
Scubapro is also excellent but they are the specialists in piston regulators (the legend is a diaphragm regulator) and I prefer diaphragm regs, but that is an argument that would derail the thread for at least 10 pages so lets not go there.
As was said you could convert the reg you are looking at to DIN fairly easy down the road as well.
I feel you overpay (A LOT) for the reg you are looking at but what you get is an excellent breathing reg that you basically will never outgrow. The sealed supreme 1st stage is nice even in warm water only diving to keep the salt out of the inner workings.
If you aren't scared of used there are a number of Legend LX Supremes for sale used at any given time for half of new it seems and many claim to be recently serviced.
Aqualung is a good brand for people that don't service their own gear because there are so many dealers, and also good for the people that do service their own gear because its usually super easy to get parts for them from various sources online. Some of the arguably better (or at least equal) more technical oriented brands mentioned by others are not so common in many places.
Scubapro is also excellent but they are the specialists in piston regulators (the legend is a diaphragm regulator) and I prefer diaphragm regs, but that is an argument that would derail the thread for at least 10 pages so lets not go there.
Divectionist
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