Philips MCW770

design, usability, price, size

reliability

79% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Wireless link is a great gadget. Lots of features for the price. Good overall sounding system. CD player is MP3 compatible. AUX input sockets.

CD changer is very noisy (including when powering on the system). Wireless link can be unreliable and has a slight "1st generation" feel to it. PC media manager software supplied with the system functions poorly (although cheap/free alternatives are...

Looks and sonds good.

The main feature of this product is that it can sit on a wireless network and stream music from PCs on the same network. Unfortnately, there are numerous bugs that mean many users have trouble making this happen. Check out the Philips support website...

sound, style

no dab radio

Great feature list; the wifi connection was always good and the sound quality impressive. 5 mp3 discs, without the outdated cassette player that so many other small systems have.

Reliability terrible. The first two units developed intermittent volume faults - suddenly really loud. So we'd turn the volume down and after a while it'd go really quiet. We're at day two of our third unit, and it's fan had suddenly become noisy and...