We did run into a couple of snags that dampened our experience slightly. The NP2500 isn't nearly as good as the Squeezebox Classic at playing back albums seamlessly (without gaps between tracks) or songs from your PC. That might not matter to most listeners, but, if you're listening to Abbey Road and there's a 3-second gap between Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam, it can really take you out of the moment.
Our other issue was that we had some difficulty getting the included TwonkyVision software to play back our albums in the correct running order. Upgrading to the latest version of TwonkyServer fixed the problem and, luckily, the included software worked with the updated software.
Finally, the NP2500 froze up on us a few times. Sometimes it took a few minutes to finally wake up, but twice it required us to unplug it and plug it back in. It didn't happen enough to really frustrate us, but we're hoping Philips updates the firmware to iron out some of these occasional hang-ups.
Conclusion
If you can live with its quirks, the Philips Streamium NP2500 will prove a decent digital audio streamer, offering plenty of functionality in a pretty
package.
Additional editing by Charles Kloet
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