Philips Wacs700 Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

Philips’ WACS700/05 music system is truly multi-room hi-fi for the wireless generation. It consists of a base station with a CD player and 40GB hard drive built in, plus a satellite unit, which receives and plays back music streamed wirelessly from the base station via built-in 802.11g adapters in each unit. Spec: Network audio player + ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I am considering buying this unit for my home and storing my full CD collection on it. The main thing that is putting me off is the storage capacity, 40GB, I don't think this would be big enough for my collection. I wonder why Philips produce a good looking unit and then install a miniscule HDD in it, if Apple can produce an ipod with 60GB storage ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

This is a revolutionary Multi-Room HiFi that allows you to stream music from the server to up to 5 additional clients placed anywhere within your home. In terms of specifcation, you can read up on it by simply searching for this on google. I'll quickly go though the main points. 40gig hard drive allowing for up to 750 CD's to be stored ...  Read the complete review