Philips WACS7500/37 Streamium Wireless 80 GB Hard Disk 80 Watt RMS Music System

by Philips

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 24.2 x 10.7 inches ; 19.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 38 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016OC8QS
• Item model number: WACS7500/37
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,854 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 15, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Philips Streamium Series: Send Music Wirelessly Throughout the Home

The Streamium Wireless Center can store and stream your CD collection throughout the home--and multiple stations can be added

Rip and store all your music on the sleek Philips Streamium Wireless Music System WACS7500’s 80 GB HDD and stream tunes to different rooms throughout your home. There’s also colourful Album Art and Internet Radio to enhance your enjoyment.

With wireless streaming, you don't need to download and store large music files on our audio device. Instead, you can listen to favourite songs as they are continuously streamed to all the Music Stations - at the same time. Have your music follow you from room to room with Music Follows Me - no need to restart navigation and playback. Music Broadcast simultaneously broadcasts the music you want from the Centre to all Stations. And with My Room, My Music, any family member can enjoy selected music from the stored collection in any room that is equipped with a Wireless Music Centre or Station.

80 GB Hard Disk Rips and Stores up to 1500 CDs

The 80 GB hard disk offers a very large capacity for you to store your digital music files. It easily holds up to 1500 CDs of your music collection, and the recording speed is so fast that you can almost play and rip a particular song almost at the same time.

"Music Follows Me" Seamlessly Moves Music from Room to Room

The Music Follows Me feature allows you to take your favourite music from room to room in your house without having to restart navigation and playback of that particular track. At the touch of a button, your favourite song will follow you anywhere you go in your house. "My Room, My Music" Allows Simultaneous Music Streaming

With My Room, My Music, your family members can enjoy the music they choose from the stored collections in any room equipped with a Wireless Music Station. Multiple User Access technology simultaneously streams music selected by the client Wireless Music Station form the Wireless Music Centre. One Wireless Music Centre can stream music to up to five Stations. That's six different music options for your whole family to enjoy in any room - simultaneously and instantly. Tune Into Thousands of Free Internet Radio Stations

Tune into hundreds of music channels and internet radio stations from all over the world through the internet. Listen to the latest hits or tunes from your preferred genre. You can even create your own personal favourite radio station list.

Universal Plug and Play Support Expands Your Options

Connect your Wireless Music System to any Universal Plug and Play-enabled (UPnP) device to receive or transmit music.

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Technical Specifications

Compression format: MP3, WMA, PCM

Playback Media: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3-CD, WMA-CD

Disc Playback Modes: Next/Previous Track Search, Repeat/Shuffle/Programme, Fast Forward/Reverse

ID3-tag support: Yes

Loader Type: Slot

MP3 bit rates: 8-320 kbps and VBR

WMA bit rates: up to 192 kbps, CBR/VBR

Hard Disk Playback Mode: Album, Genre, Playlist, All tracks, Same Artist, Same Genre, Uncompressed tracks

Hard Disk Streaming Mode: Wi-Fi streaming to 5 stations, "My Room, My Music", "Music Follows Me", "Music Broadcast" PC Link playback mode: MP3 streaming via network, Wi-Fi wireless connection

Sample frequencies: 8-48 kHz (MP3)

USB Direct Modes: Play/Pause, Previous/Next, Stop

Audio cinch in: Analogue AUX (Centre/Station)

Audio cinch out: Analogue Line-out

Headphones: 3.5 mm

Antenna: FM Dipole

Wireless connections: Wireless LAN

Electricity: 220 V 50 Hz

Wireless Universal Plug & Play: Enabled

LAN wired: Ethernet (RJ 45) 1x

Display Type: LCD

Backlight colour: White

On-Screen Display languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish

Digital Content Management: included

Eco Power Standby: 1 watt

Headphone jack: Yes

Wall mountable/Ceiling Throw: Station

Clock: On main display

Product Description

Free your music. Enjoy all your music in every room- wirelessly. Rip and store all your music on the sleek Philips Streamium Music System. WACS7500's 80 GB HDD and stream tunes to different rooms throughout your home. There's also colourful Album Art and Internet Radio to enhance your enjoyment. All your music on one wireless system. Wireless streaming between center, station(s) and PC. 80GB Hard disk to store and playback up to 1500CD's. CD and USB Direct playback. Enjoy internet radio. Easy navigation and control. View album art in full color. My room, My music playback to all Stations. With this feature your family member can enjoy their chosen music from the stored collections in any room equipped wiht a Wireless Music Station. Multiple User Access technology simultaneously stream music selected by the client Wireless music Station from the Wireless Music Centerr. One Wireless Music Center can stream music up to 5 different stations. Music follows me feature allows you to bring your favorite music from room to room without having to restart navigation and playback of that particular track. By simply pressing a button, your favorite song will follow you wherever you go. 80 watt RMS/Center. 30W RMS/Station with Super Sound Panel.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hightech, needs know-how, but a cute piece, November 30, 2008

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Szekeres, Tibor Gyorgy "iTech" (CEE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips WACS7500/37 Streamium Wireless 80 GB Hard Disk 80 Watt RMS Music System (Electronics)

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.

peritter@hotmailcom

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice machine, July 17, 2009

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L. Eriksson (Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips WACS7500/37 Streamium Wireless 80 GB Hard Disk 80 Watt RMS Music System (Electronics)

I bought my Philips WACS7500 one year ago. Had some issues with the internet connection in my 'all cement house' and just recently Philips came out with a firmware upgrade. Now we have no issues with anything. Internet radio, fantastic, all stations connect wonderfully in my 'all cement house' and I like it very much. I think the documentation was absolutely clear, albeit spelling mistakes. I found it easy to connect and listen and download music from my PC!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, August 25, 2009

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Ivan "Tech Fan" (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Philips WACS7500/37 Streamium Wireless 80 GB Hard Disk 80 Watt RMS Music System (Electronics)

I was waiting for a great sound system. But this device is "the best of the best". Crystal sound, amazing features, internet radio, wireless, cd covers on screen..oh! I almost forgot...it plays cds and has fm tuner. Now if you are looking for a sound system that makes you feel exclusive dont look around anymore. It is!. Philips works for us and this is a perfect sample, it combines sound, technology, design and quality, all in one, for a good price.