Philips WAC3500D Streamium Wireless Audio Center Reviewed
We have been seeing more and more boom boxes come out as of late that have added the ability to stream music from your home network from anywhere in your house. The
WAC2500D acts as a normal boom box with FM tuner, CD player and the like. It even adds the common new addition of having an iPod hookup. Where the
WAC2500D sets itself apart from most other players is that it has a USB hookup, an internal 80GB hard drive as well as the ability to stream music from your PC either via a wired connection or wirelessly. With the addition of the USB ports you can keep all your music on external USB drives and never run out of space for your music collection. You can just take the
WAC2500D and the drive wherever you go and you have a very nice sounding entertainment center on the go.
The addition of letting people stream music from their home netowrk to
WAC2500D really opens things up. Now you don't need to modify that huge collection of digital files you have on your home server. Just stream them to the boom box like you would any other media streamer. We are very excited to see companies allowing us to stream our audio on more and more devices. When we first got into streaming media we had to search out products that could accomplish this for us. These days you can't go a day without finding another product has been released that will allow you to stream some sort of media.
Well enough of our rambling, read on for more specs.
Ok so we mentioned the internal 80GB hard drive that allows you to take your music collection with you turning an ordinary boom box into a portal entertainment center. We mentioned the iPod hookup allowing your or your friends iPod to be plugged in. It also will let you play and rip a CD at the same time. Well what else is there to this device, what haven't we mentioned yet?
Well lets see, you can access the hard drive from you PC and drag files to it so you don't have to re-rip anything. Just take your already existing music collection and drag and drop it to the
WAC2500D and enjoy. You can add up to 5 wireless stations that will allow you to either play 5 different songs on each unit or just have them all play the same song. The one strange thing is that the early reports had this supporting Internet radio, but it appears that the shipping unit will not support it. We find this to be a very strange omission as with all the cool additions having Internet radio would have been very cool.
So all in all it looks like a great device if you are in the market for a portable entertainment center with a lot of bells and whistles. With the ability to stream from a PC, dock an iPod and have the option of storing all of you music locally it seems like a can't miss device. Currently this is only for sale in the UK, but this is something that we can see making its way State side at some point.
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Posted by David Ficocello at October 25, 2007 8:00 AM
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