From Digital Living Today Philips is known for innovation. So it should come as no surprise that the Philips FWM-55 Shelf System does a superb job of combining long-awaited features into a budget priced mini-system. In addition to the standard FM/AM tuner, the double cassette deck, the CD changer, and the powerful amp, the FWM-55 has the capacity to play MP3-CDs in any one of its three CD-bays. Although this may seem irrelevant to many buyers, that ever-growing group of listeners who download MP3s from the Internet and burn them onto CD-Rs will immediately recognize the usefulness of this feature. Finally, they can play those discs away from their computers! Not to mention that three 700MB MP3 CD-Rs can provide you with tens of hours of non-stop music loaded and ready to go. The FWM-55 also boasts a simulated surround sound system that can reproduce music in a wide range of listening modes, making it a serious mini-system indeed.