Philips FidelioAW3000 A3 wireless Hi-Fi speaker

Now anybody reading the reviews on this product would be mad to buy one, but, I'm pleased I did. It's not as bad to set up as made out, the sound quality is fantastic and if you find it too bassy turn it down in the equalizer settings! It's great. Love the preset buttons which make it stand alone without the need for the app.So lets test Philips then with a suggestion. No firmware updates for a long while but what would really make this killer for me would be the ability to assign MP3 link to one of the preset buttons, one or five please or better yet let me choose between them all. Then I can just plug in push the preset button and rock. Come on Philips you can do it.

With a bit of patience I have the speaker playing music wireless from the app. The sound is fantastic. Deep clear bass, refined highs, all balanced well if a tad bass heavy. But honestly played wireless or through an AUX cable the sound is brilliant. The app is clunky. I connected the speaker fine, got music playing fine, however a few odd songs appear to be missing. Sometimes, in fact quite often at the end of a song the next won't start playing, you have to click the next song button within the app. This is fairly fundamental, not good, and could do with fixing. Equally my itunes playlists do not show up which is not such a problem, just an inconvenience. I can't comment on the streaming services as I haven't got a subscription to them but they are easy to find under the services section. In essence Philips could do with fixing the app so next songs play automatically consistently. Other than that the sound is top quality, and this "compact" speaker has plenty of volume.

Was seduced by the sheer look and quality build of this speaker but am afraid I have to concur with many other reviews here. The sound quality is unbelievable but the supporting app is very disappointing and user unfriendly. Also, when the speaker cuts out it can take a frustratingly long time to reconnect!

Easy to set up the speaker to my WiFi network and listen to internet radio & there's also plenty of choice regarding music streaming services (Spotify, Deezer etc..) But I wanted to use the A3 to stream my own music and the App is not upto the job. Its user interface is far from clear. I'm still confused by it & I've been using it for 2 weeks. Audio randomly stops between songs and I still haven't worked out how to fast forward a track.. I am really hopeful that Philips fix the App as the speaker itself is stunning, both its audio quality and appearance.

Easy to set up the speaker to my WiFi network and listen to internet radio & there's also plenty of choice regarding music streaming services (Spotify, Deezer etc..) But I wanted to use the A3 to stream my own music and the App is not upto the job. Its user interface is far from clear. I'm still confused by it & I've been using it for 2 weeks. Audio randomly stops between songs and I still haven't worked out how to fast forward a track.. I am really hopeful that Philips fix the App as the speaker itself is stunning, both its audio quality and appearance.

I bought this product for my wife for Xmas. However it took me 2 days to set it up which was not helped by the android app which was very poor. In a nutshell I couldn't get the device to connect to my wifi router. After 2 days of diagnostics I worked out that the device was having difficulty connecting to the router when it was operating with two wireless channels, a 2.4Ghz channel and a 5Ghz channel. Eventually I had to disable the 5GHz channel for the device to connect to the router which I am not at all happy about. I hope this can be fixed with a device firmware update as dual channel routers are pretty common. The android app is truly awful. The IOS app is slightly better but both need a good rewrite. The setup process can be straight forward if everything goes to plan but its very hard to diagnose problems if they occur as the app is the only interface with the device while setting it up. However, its now set up and its easy to hook it up to internet radio stations, music on your phone or NAS and you can also hook it up to Deezer if you're on orange which is real plus point. Overall a good product let down my the app, the setup process and how it interfaces with dual channel routers (or just my dual channel router).

In short, No iOS app in the UK app store. The Android app is bare bones with a poor interface and poorer documentation. There is no Napster or Spotify option anywhere in the Android app. All I'm able to get now is internet radio and some of my music on my Android device. The documentation in the box and the Philips website is lacking and does not explain the basic functions of the speaker or provide troubleshooting information. I really hope the apps are quickly sorted as they servery limit an otherwise great product.

What a great disappointment. Music sound quality great. The app though is the worst app I have ever used - ever!! App crashes all the time and is painfully slow and just horrible!! This is not cheap but at the end useless as I can't be bothered trying to get it to work every time I want to use it.

If you invest multiple hundreds of pounds in wireless speakers you would expect them to connect. They do not. Buy anything else.

I bought this speaker two weeks ago. Hooking up the device was fairly easy. Sound quality is very good, a bit on the bassy side but still very good. User experience is where this device shows its problems. Regarding the app playback is not as straight forward as in most conventional players. - Songs within an album can't be sorted by track order. - You have to manually select the songs you want to play. If you select one song within the album view, the speaker will only play that song, and not the remaining songs in a continuous order (There is a + button which you can use in order to add songs in bulk, but this is just awkward). I don't know why Philips could not make this app work as like every other music player. - Song playback stops randomly sometimes. - Sometimes the app can't find the speaker, even when everything else is working fine and the speaker is recognized by other devices. - This speaker does not allow to broadcast any other kind of content such as the sound output of a computer or a mobile device (for example to listen to youtube videos). - I bought this player in France and brought it with me to Argentina. In France the app would show the option to use spotify, in Argentina it does not. I am a premium subscriber of this service in Argentina (legally available here) so I don't understand the reason why this app is intentionally crippled. I have heard that spotify is launching a new service with Philips as a partner called connect. I hope this device will be updated to benefit from the user experience of the spotify app, and the sound quality of the A3. Right now I am just sad I bought this device and cannot return it.