Bought this 18 months ago, but only came out of the box 12 months ago.Worked great until, inexplicably, one day it wouldn't recognise CDs. Tried cleaning it, updating firmware, but got nowhere.As it's out of warrantee, Philips aren't interested, unless I want to pay £100 just to have it looked at. It is now a useless piece of equipment sat in the corner of the room

what a useless bit of kit,does not connect to stations even after updating firmware,philips after care is nothing but useless,i have had two the wac700 + wacs750 + both had same problem,the wacs750 is a great bit of kit if only you could open the box + it works,but it doesn't.i purchased a wac700 in sept 07 it worked ok for 6 months,then i unplugged it + from that day up until now + even changing the system for a wacs750 there is still no connection to a station in another room,i am not the only one trying,the shop where i purchased it from has been round to my house downloaded firmware + still it does not work,at the moment we are trying to connect it to my home ...  Read the complete review

This product is potentially amazing but due to terrible support from Philips and no firmware updates to fix bugs no one should buy it. Stear clear of this product or the replacement WACS7000 unless Philips shows some signes of improving their customer care. Check out user feedback in the philips streamium forum before buying this product from them. Their Streamium products are effectively not supported - bugs in the firmware are left unfixed. See this ...  Read the complete review

I'm looking at several Digital Music Management Systems, the 1st one I saw was the Sonos at www.sonos.com, which seems to give you the same Multi-room playback capability but with a higher storage capacity (assuming you also get their suggested external drive), another one was the Musica at www.olive.us which comes with similar features and a built in 160 GB drive, I just don;t get why the WACS 700 is limited to 40 GB, it does not seem enough to ...  Read the complete review