This is a basic reg that delivers gas reliably. The stiff purge is annoying, and if you dive in a drysuit and carry an octo, the MC5 doesn’t offer enough LP ports.

The new Titan shows you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a really great reg. Top breathing performance at a really good price makes it a Best Buy in our book.

These are solid regs that deliver excellent breathing performance both when diving within recreational depths and when pushed to extremes.

This standout reg breathes easy under normal conditions, plus offers a tremendous amount of reserve capacity for extreme diving. It’s the priciest breather of this year’s shootout, but delivers the best performance, making it our Testers’ Choice ...

The Delta 4.2 is a solid midrange reg, delivering very good performance and offering some nice design features. The second-stage swivel is a nice add-on, increasing range of motion. When it was hooked to a CDX-5 first stage, the Neo was a solid ...

Both lab coat and wetsuit wearers really liked this reg. It delivers top-drawer breathing performance, is user friendly and carries a price tag so low that it almost doesn’t qualify as an Over $500 reg, making it our Best Buy pick in this category.

Lightweight and compact, the Flight is perfect for the traveling diver.

ScubaLab put 12 new regs to the test to learn all are good, but a few are superbreathers

The Brut is a good entry-level reg at a very attractive price point.