Philips Streamium NP2900 Expert Reviews

The Streamium NP2900 is an excellent Wi-Fi radio. It's an extremely slick-looking piece of kit, it offers access to thousands of Internet radio stations and, most importantly, it delivers fantastic sound quality. Unusually, it also offers a great ...

Excellent sound quality for its size ; unique colour screen that displays album art ; provides access to thousands of Internet radio stations ; stylish exterior design ; easy set-up to stream music from connected PCs

Interface can become sluggish with large music libraries ; slight delay between tracks ; included remote is occasionally confusing

The Philips Streamium NP2900 is a great-sounding Wi-Fi radio with a unique colour display, but it doesn't offer enough features to justify its price premium over competitors

Will this connect you to your music?

Excellent sound quality, compact, nice vibrant colour screen

Price, can be slow to navigate, photo viewing a little basic, occasional wireless drop out

Excellent sound quality marred slightly by the price and slow navigation

Philips' classy new Streamium holds the key to freeing your PC's music collection. But has it got enough to unlock your wallet?

Compact, stylish, and solidly built. Wall mountable. Bright screen. Surprisingly big sound

Treble could be better controlled. Lack of format and music service compatibility

Philips delivers an attractive and capable networked media player.

Who wants a clunky old CD player taking up valuable shelf space when you can nab a streaming media player, shove it on your wall and feed it tracks from your music-mad hard drive instead? And when it comes to these little bundles of futuristic joy, it ...

Great price, good looks, easy to set up

No Last.fm, screen slows scrolling

A fine all round streamer with a great price tag and some killer features

The Philips Streamium NP2900 is a network music player with internet radio and 802.11b/g streaming. Colour 4-inch LCD screen, multi-format music file support and built-in stereo speakers (30W amplification). It comes with Twonky media server software, ...

If Streamium were an element, it would be heavier than heavy metal and lighter than air guitar, with the lustre of a freshly minted gold record. The NP2900 has a meaty 30W of amplification and uses smart digital processing to turn plain old MP3 (or ...

When you've got a terabyte drive groaning at the seams with music, you need to be able to navigate it easily – and here the Streamium struggles. It's slow to browse albums (especially when you've got artwork visible) and occasionally shuffles the ...

Free your music with the most stylish streaming player on the market today. It's not quite as speedy or smart as the Logitech Boom but it's simple, reliable and delivers where it counts in sonic superiority.

Does Philips' latest wireless music streamer deserve a place in your Hi-Fi setup? iGIZMO investigates

Looks good / Sounds better / Loads of features

Expensive / Menus occasionally tricky

Sound quality is superb. Philips has squeezed in four speakers: two on the front and two more on the side, the upshot of which is that you get a full sound even when the Streamium is backed against a wall. It's capable of enjoyably-loud performance, ...

A fine stand alone music streamer that gives Logitech's Squeezebox Boom a good run for its money

The NP2900 is a nice looking and very fine sounding box of tricks. Although a little less robust in use and not as feature rich as Logitech's Squeezebox Boom, it produces a marginally better sound and comes with a far superior screen and remote ...