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Philips WACS7500/37 Streamium Wireless 80 GB Hard Disk 80 Watt RMS Music System
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List Price: $999.99
Our Price: $825.52
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Manufacturer: Philips Consumer Electronics
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Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Philips
Color: silver/blk
EAN: 0609585143807
Feature: Streamium Wireless Music system, stream between center, station(s) and PC.
Label: Philips Consumer Electronics
Manufacturer: Philips Consumer Electronics
Model: WACS7500/37
Publisher: Philips Consumer Electronics
Studio: Philips Consumer Electronics
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Features
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Streamium Wireless Music system, stream between center, station(s) and PC.
My room, My music playback to all stations. 2 way 6 line display on remote.
80GB hard disk to store and playback up to 1500 CD's.
Enjoy internet radio.
Expand your system by adding up to 5 Wi Fi Stations
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Hightech, needs know-how, but a cute piece
Comment: here is the Philips link : http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/en/us/consumer/cc/_categoryid_WIRELESS_MUSIC_SYSTEMS_SU_US_CONSUMER/
I bought the WAC7500/12 as it is called in Europe for about a 1,000 EUR or about $1280, so the $800+ price is good.
Philips is a hardware company. This is a software product. I was never impressed with Philips software in the past witness the HDD 120 - no software upgrade for years and living with a crude interface and many little bugs. To top it, the WAC7500 software was written in China, or so it seems. The Chinese are great gadgeteers but in software they are still in the times of the Ming Dynasty. And it shows. The system is full of little bugs, which could be annoying. It is no accident that the iPOD is a winner, Apple is a software company.
The management interface accessed via a browser is crude, sort of half done as one would expect it from Philips after a while. Their website is trash, haphazard attention is paid to updates, sometimes just don't work. Lately though they paying attention to it. I had little problems with Inet radio but it seem to work.
The hardware itself is first class. I was going to build some like the WAC7500 had I not found it already made. Speakers are great, remotes (there are two of them) are Ok. The remote with a display is weird, it lacks some of the features of the one without display.
The main unit called Center Station, can and should be managed from a PC. In order to connect to the PC you need to turn off all, I mean all, security firewalls even certain VPN software security policies.
Features are great. But it really needs a software update in the whole number category (x.0 I mean) where they fix feature cross compatibility - these are basic design issues. See the link for more detail on features.
For CD database they use Gracenote. I like freedb.org. In general they should open the box for compatibility, else they aren't going to sell many. This is really a techie toy. Neatly fits into the mp3, iPOD, Inet radio, WI-HIFI, software based music world. So if you're not ready to fool around with a little technology don't buy it. Else it is a great toy though a bit expensive.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Serious lack of documentation
Comment: I bought the WACS7500 because the compact shape of the unit and the remote station were a good fit with my personal environment. I'm not an audio expert; I have no issues with the quality of the speakers. The unit sounds great loud and has decent bass for its size.
My problem with the WACS7500 (and probably with other Streamium products) is the lack of accurate documentation on how to use and set up the product and how to use the Club Philips website to manage and activate certain features, such as Internet radio and feature updates. I had to muddle through the set-up process with the help of an online Streamium user forum.
In summary, I don't recommend this product unless you are comfortable with ambiguous and incomplete product instructions. Otherwise, it is a nice wireless streaming music machine.
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