Philips WACS700 Wireless Music Center and Station Review

The WACS700 is the latest of the Streamium series and unlike most DMR’s (Digital Media Receivers), consist of a base unit called the Center and a satellite Station that comes with its own inbuilt speakers. Equipped with a 40GB hard drive, the setup is fully independent for its audio data, though music can be transferred through a wireless/Ethernet connection or even ripped on the fly through its slot-in CD-drive. The Center is basically a self-contained hi-fi, which shares its songs with its Stations that can echo or even play to a different beat from its parent simultaneously. Although the WACS700 base comes with one Station out of the box, it can support to five of them - one for each funk filled room.

The WACS700 truly breaks the mold from other DMRs as it clearly creates an experience that will allow consumers that are not extremely tech-savvy to feel at home with its friendly features such as on-the-fly ripping and Gracenote database. Even those who are more familiar with networking and DMRs, the attractiveness of an all-in-one solution minus all the messy wires is irresistible – with that in mind the Phillips WACS700 Streamium Wireless Music Center and Station surely deserves to exist in every household for light audio entertainment.

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