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Diago Powerstation

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Ease of Use 9.8 (81 responses)
Sound Quality 9.6 (82 responses)
Reliability 9.6 (68 responses)
Customer Support 9.7 (63 responses)
Overall Rating 9.5 (81 responses)
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Product: Diago Powerstation
Price Paid: 60 (euro)
Submitted 02/15/2006 at 07:00am by Andrea Negrini

Ease of Use : 10
The use is quite straightforward: just insert the power cord into the plug and connect all of your pedals and you're ready to go.

There is a bonus velcro strip you can use to attach it to you velcro pedal board, if ever.

Sound Quality : 9
I tested it with my 15-watt practice amp, a Gibson ES 335 TD and a bunch of effect pedals:
-George Dennis GD-90 chorus/flanger/volume
-George Dennis GD-30 Wah-wah
-Vox V810 overdrive
-Boss OS-2 overdrive/distortion
-Boss OC-2 octaver
-Behringer OC100 octaver (quite noisy with my previous AC adapter)
-Rocktron Surf Tremolo
-Behringer Vintage Phaser

Provinding 1500 mA, the Powerstation managed to power up all these pedals with no problem. It didn't even get too hot during the test.

Overall it was quite silent. With higher quality effects (such as GD or Boss) there was absolutely no noticeable difference in background noise between the adapter and the use of standard 9v battery.

Reliability : No Opinion
This little box seems quite sturdy. I guess I have to test in some gigs before giving a real vote here.

Customer Support : 8
Purchased it on ebay, took less than a week to make its way from UK to Italy. Since I had no problems with it (yet? I hope so! :-), I didn't need to contact the support.

Overall Rating : 9
PROs:
-It's really SMALL. Much smaller than my previous adapter: won't waste precious space in the pedalboard
-It's silent. Even with 5 effects in chain there's no extra hum other than the one from the amplifier. Moreover it helped a lot in reducing the noise produced by the OC100. Two thumbs up.

CONs:
The daisy chain cord could be longer and could perhaps use L connectors in order to reduce space use between pedals


Product: Diago Powerstation
Price Paid: 50 (#GB)
Submitted 02/13/2006 at 10:01am by Frank

Ease of Use : 9
Plug one end into the wall and the other into your pedals and you're set to go, can't be mutch easier. If your pedals don't have the standard Boss type power inputs you can buy seperate adaptors for #3 each. I gave it a 9 because the adaptors are rather limited in flexibility, making positioning larger pedals (eg, Big Muff) limited.

Sound Quality : No Opinion
It's a power supply, it shouldn't interefere with the sound and it doesn't. I've tried it with a recording interface which picks up noise from other power supplies easily, and didn't get any noise from this one.

Reliability : 10
It's been good so far, and it features chort circuit, overload and over voltage protection, so I'd trust it not to die on me.

Customer Support : 10
The website stated that it should arrive next working day if ordered by 12 noon, I ordered late on Sunday and when it hadn't arrived by wednesday I emailed and asked when I should expect to recieve it. I got a reply in less than ten minutes explaining that he had been moving premesis and had sent it out the previous day, sure enough it arrived the next day. A very nice man indeed.

The website also has a pretty extensive list of what pedals will work with it, and what adaptor you'll need for any particular pedal (if any). It also lists the current draw of most of the listed pedals.
(http://www.diago.co.uk/media/powerstation_compatibility.php)

Overall Rating : 10
It can supply a total of 1.5A to your pedals, which is certainly more than enough for me. I haven't owned any other power supplies, but this seems to work fine for a fraction of the cost of most others. If it were lost or stolen I'd definitely buy another.


Product: Diago Powerstation
Price Paid: 40 (# sterling)
Submitted 02/12/2006 at 09:50am by Mike Riddle

Ease of Use : 10
Easy as pie, you just plug it into the mains, a daisy chain into it, and the daisy chain into your pedals. There's adaptors available to power Proco, ehx, line6 or 9v battery type fx (and maybe more, i can't remember). There's no hum, (except apparently if you use loads of line6 tonecore boxes) and it takse up very little space on my new (diago!) pedal board. The company feedback is great- i've had several emails going back and forth and they're always very friendly and helpful.

James even sent some velcro specifically for the powerstation.

Great stuff

Sound Quality : 10
no hum, no hiss. perfect

Reliability : 10
haven't had a problem yet, and it feels pretty tough

Customer Support : 10
superb, as mentioned above

Overall Rating : 10
Just brilliant. exactly what i needed- quiet and small and just generally great.


Product: Diago Powerstation
Price Paid: 40 (# GBP)
Submitted 02/09/2006 at 12:11pm by Mike Wallace
Email: mike at mikewallace<dot>co<dot>uk

Ease of Use : 10
Nothing hard plug it in it works - no messy generic cables or voltage selectors just get in there and go!

Sound Quality : 10
No sound quailty, no hiss - same as the pedal line I was running before no hiss at high volumes (AND I MEAN LOUD !!!!!!) -

Effect switching doesn't cause pops or anything

Reliability : 9
only had a it a day but the owner/customer support seems top notch. if the worst happened you could always go to batteries.

Customer Support : No Opinion
any questions I had were answered promptly prior to purchase and delivery.

Overall Rating : 10
I know there's no such thing as perfect but I've been playing for 16 years and pumping batteries into pedals for about the same time - every power solution i looked at before was the size of a house and buzzed with more than 5 pedals, - i've got 10 running off this one, no noiser than it was before when I was on batteries, the power unit is a little bigger than a small box of matches and it does the job for a good price.

I'm not a sales rep but the guy who's got the patent on this is gonna be very rich! - If you don't have one - go get one - don't be like me and spend 15+ years buying batteries - this is the way forward!

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