The choice was not difficult after one day: I keep the Philips, even if this only marginally costs more. Reasons:
The Homespot plays transmitted pop and rock music, yes generally very dynamic rich raw material in terms of quality from good (tested with the new Xperia SP, the Samsung Galaxy SII and the Huawei Y300). In direct comparison, however, rushes despite the same output volume on the smartphone, with quiet music passages (well audible eg when Tracy Chapman Behind the wall, converted from CD in 320kbps / s MP3) in vocal breaks quite unpleasant about the home spot. Receiver here was my Pioneer VSA-AX 10i and the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, which mercilessly tease out every nuance of the music material. It sounded almost similar like an analog tape deck with Dolby zugeschaltetem C use in the noise bursts when using high frequencies. This would have to cope with for the price still. What denominated plop-flop and noise but are very disturb every time they send no music signal to the Bluethooth receiver. Sometimes it flopped dull, sometimes it pops, then it roars stronger, sometimes you can hear anything and then there are a flop. Even if you complete an entire album plays (whether via Google Play, Amazon MP3 - player or the built-in music player from each smartphone), with each new piece said the compound would break off the receiver and then re-connect when the next piece starts playing (accompanied by the unpleasant pop / flop noises which the bass membrane from headphones and speakers in vibration enable for one second). The Philips is this not also exempt limitless. Listen On closer and louder adjust the volume you hear through headphones but here only a very slight, slight in the millisecond range, high frequency "click". However, this is my "eavesdroppers" mitverglichen who had not even noticed.
Who does not interfere with this shortcoming and the way would listen to music an acceptable device, particularly because of the NFC feature! The connection works without problems with the Xperia SP. But the normal Bluetooth connection works perfectly and the range is also a space to the next even without disconnections, provided you put the smartphone bobbing in the next room to a place without it.
I separate unfortunately again from this unit, even without the disturbing flops and Plopps of Philips is for me personally the better decision, because I mainly would like to through headphones evening enjoy music without getting a bad aftertaste with soft musical passages.
