Philips WAC3500

With its main unit and two separate speakers, the WAC3500D looks like a traditional micro hi-fi, as opposed to the more daring upright design of the WACS7000, which boasts built-in speakers. As a result it's nowhere near as attractive as its pricier...

Very easy to connect to PC, then all info. and changes can be quickly made using PC keyboard

Display much to small

The hifi looks good, is very simple to use and easy to operate. Why do other manufacturers not do this?

ou can not download your existing MP3's from a player to the hifi. But this is a minor fault.

The good thing is, if you love your music and have lots on itunes for example then you can trasfer them over to the cd player, i set mine up to use wireless basically hassle free. would defo reccomend it.

The problem i had with this to start with, was the plug. i opened it up downstairs but when i brought it upstairs, it wouldnt work, dad checked the plug incase the fuse had gone and it had a foreign connection which he fixed so why went wrong i dont...

I have various different ways of storing music and this system caters for all of them. If you don't want to block up your hardrive with loads of music then it's a good choice.

Not really a bad point but not many of the bigger systems have the same access functions ie memory stick har drive etc so you have to do with smaller speakers etc.

design attactive - system is flexible and can be expanded Easy to set up and get going

the manual

You can have all the music on one device and create you own playlists

A bit too much to learn, not a problem for technology savvy individuals. I wouldn't recommend it my grandmother.

stores massive amounts of music and the basic instructions are very straightforward. I really liked the the playlist feature on the UPnP which sends music wirelessly from my p.c.

Sometimes a bit confusing to navigate around the sons on the hard drive but I think I need to play about with it a bit more

i like that i can make my own playlist like a huge mp3 and put whatever songs i want onto it without having to go through the whole cd,also once i have done all this i dont have to mess up my cd collection i can simply flick through the saved files as...

it is time consuming to put songs onto the system and cant figure out if i can record onto the memory from my personal mp3 but plays it straight off it quite well so not so much of a prob