positive:
+ Simple appearance, quality workmanship
+ Easy handling
+ Formats and source diversity, especially through the Bluetooth function
+ Good sound in compact dimensions
+ Exchange coverage against boredom
neutral:
o Sound settings are not manually adjustable
negative:
- Single-line display provides little comfort when ID3 tag display (USB flash drive or MP3-CD)
Possible Bug: Instead album name artist is displayed and vice versa.
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Now we come to the details and my impressions.
The plant is set up quickly and ready in minutes.
The package includes:
The plant with the 2 boxes, a power and antenna cables, remote control with batteries, 2 different colored faceplates (rust "and beige") and a multilingual Quick Start Guide.
The processing of the device makes a very good impression. The operation of the plant can be carried out on the device itself, to the main control buttons are located at the top of the plant or are clearly arranged on the small remote control on all functions. The volume control on the device is a major element of simple design and can be rotated continuously. It feels on the whole very difficult "and quality.
The functions:
The unit has a CD drive to play audio CDs or MP3 / WMA CDs. Noises from the drive are to be heard between the songs. On the one-line display can be album, title name or artist name. MP3 CD folders are quickly select with the remote control.
The ID3 tags appear unfortunately reversed, instead of the album artist is displayed and vice versa (on the PC, the tags are properly set). Here a multi-line display would have been more comfortable.
About a 3.5 mm jack (Audio-in) to any device can connect to the system and thus offers numerous possibilities of music playback. On the back there is also still a AUX-in port for other devices. Wired Headphones Find your input on the front. So you can enjoy his music sometimes in silence.
The existing on the front USB (2.0) slot extends the possibilities of playback sources. Here you can connect in addition to its USB flash drive, a card reader to play as music from SD cards.
The integrated FM radio offers a storage of 20 stations. The system automatically scans the frequency range and saves the first station found. The order can also be determined manually. The supplied antenna most channels can be received free of noise with me. In addition, the radio text information (RDS) is shown on the display.
Bluetooth is the most important in this system for me. About my smartphone or the PC is a connection to the plant produced fast (blue LED). The music playback are as it were no limits. You can now enjoy his music, which is located directly on the paired device or on the Internet via the facility.
The pairing of the devices work right away, just you should not stray too far from the complex. After 2 doors and a couple of walls the signal was unfortunately interrupted. If you use this function, it is best to stay in the same room or at least leave the connected BT device there.
In DISC, USB and radio mode In addition, an alarm-timers will be reset if you want to be woken up times from its investment.
We come now to the sound:
With its 2x20Watt RMS The BTM5000 / 12 provides a room-filling sound (of course depends on the room size) and has 5 predefined sound settings: Warm, Bright, Powerful, Clear and Balanced. The whole can be selected via remote control. Depending on the style of music you can find the right setting for themselves. The heights come across very clearly and in Powerful and hot mode can be heard powerful bass from the 2-way bass reflex speakers.
An additional manual adjustment of the sound would have been perfectly natural.
My Conclusion:
A chic micro system with good sound and an enormous variety of playback options. Ideal for living room or bedroom. With this system you can enjoy his music, in any volume.
Detailed instructions can be found on the Philips website. ([...])
