At the sound I set high standards and located the sound of the Philips to adapt to personal taste as well. Voices are reproduced with body and without significant discoloration, the highs are gentle and round, sonorous and powerful without droning of bass or to be imprecise. A stereo field is due to the speaker mounting position, closely spaced hardly possible, but the difference to a monaural device is clearly audible.
However, there are two reasons why I forgive only four stars and will no longer use the device as an alarm clock.
1. the alarm is only cumbersome via the menu. To turn on or off the alarm clock - admittedly not the main task of the device - you have to shimmy by remote control by the time submenu. There is no alarm button on the device, and the remote control keeps you ready for it not button.
2. in about 50% of Weckvorgänge jumps to non-Web-Radio, but the alternate alarm. According to the manual, the device uses this function, if at the time of awakening no network is available and the web radio would therefore remain silent. Seen indeed a good idea. However, my wireless is on round the clock, and none of my other devices to report at any time connectivity issues. The connection quality is not the problem, the Philips displays upon receiving a good signal quality. It thus appears from some unknown reason, during the night losing the connection and does this not again. When I switch on manually the device directly after waking, the web radio but since immediately.
Conclusion: a smoothly functioning, solidly built and really good sounding network player. Just as an alarm clock not the first choice and therefore not ideal for my purposes.