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    Sirius/XM sound quality?

    I have no problem listening to the internet while driving. I disagree with the poster who said that the iphone has poor sound. Pandora and Slacker stream at 64kbps AAC which is double the sound quality of XM/Sirius. And yes, I am picky about my sound as i listen to a lot of sacd/ dvda's. I also...
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    Alternative to Sirius/XM

    I got the exact same stuff on my Ipod! I find myself listening to Pandora the most, but if I click past 6 songs within one hour and still not like what I hear, I go to Slacker. I get some talk and Fox news off AOL ( I think that is the one). It is really fun to play around with the different...
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    Sirius raising prices!

    I said it before, I'll say it again- why would ANYONE be stupid enough to pay for a three year subscription from a company that will be gone within this year? They have never made a profit, are almost a billion $ in debt, they have loans coming due and their only hope is to find someone willing...
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    Sirius/XM sound quality?

    They used to claim "near CD quality", then they claimed "digital quality". Digital quality? WTH is that???? The highs sound bad because they use too much compression. Originally digital compression was design to sound close or identical to the source. I remember when the minidisc and digital...
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    Sirius/XM sound quality?

    Not a prayer of getting better. One huge problem is that they use different encoding schemes. So, they can't consolidate channels. They started offerring best of channels which further took away bandwidth. If they were to say, buy out everyone's siri reciever and replace with Xm for free, they...
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    Satellite Radio Thru Home Audio Receiver

    Sat radio sounds like crap and played through a good reciever, it is obvious. If the you want it through a reciever, do you get DISH? A lot of people don't know that DISH also has sirius (at least I think it does). Direct has xm and played through my reciver sounds better than if it came off...
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    Sirius/XM sound quality?

    Not even- FM sounds much better than sat radio! FM will take the music and dynamically compress it, but what you are getting is musically intact and the frequency range is still 30-15k. Sat takes that sound and dynamically squash it like FM, However, they also use a very low bit rate so that...
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    Sirius raising prices!

    Spoken like a profit. The Pandora that I get for free on my Iphone has double the bit rate and sounds awesome. When your competition offers a better product for free, raising prices is not going to help. They should have been delisted by now, but the nasdaq has given the sub buck stocks until...
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    Sirius/XM sound quality?

    I have been a subscriber for five years. SQ has gone down and down. I got an Iphone a couple of weeks and was shocked how much better SQ was on streaming music from Pandora- it is almost like CD's! XM sounds like am. I called to cancel last week and was offered three months free to keep one...