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Teching In
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From: Sacramento, CA
Originally Posted by 99 ss
hay guys my wife is getting me a sirius radio . the thing is where whould i put the ant. at i have a camaro t-tops and i think im going to love this serius radio it even has mp3 player on it and you can rec serius radio . man is it cool
Just throwing this out there, anyone out there going into sat radio thinking the sound is going to be good just because it is digital is in for a shock. The sound quality is HORRIBLE and the better your system the more it will tick you off. The sound quality is about the same as what their free web trial sounds like, which is, well, horrible. At low volumes it is tolerable but I prefer CD's or the I-Pod. I will not be renewing sirius unless they improve the sound quality. If they have to cut back on stations, so be it.
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From: Jacksonville, FL (originally from Toronto Canada)
Originally Posted by WILWAXU
My antenna is mounted inside the rear wing. It's mounted close to car's antenna so FM modualtion is good too.
That's interesting...especially since the satellite antenna has nothing to do with the FM modulation (the wireless modulator is internal to the satellite radio - it doesn't use an external antenna). Putting the radio itself closer to the antenna might improve reception but it would be awkward to have to go into the hatch to change channels. 
On The Tree
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From: Cincinnati
Originally Posted by illy5603
My antenae is on the roof in the center by the hatch glass, not near the t-tops. Some people have mounted it in the bar between the two t-tops as well. You will want it as high up as possible, it loses signal enough around trees, buildings and taller vehicle as it is.
Just throwing this out there, anyone out there going into sat radio thinking the sound is going to be good just because it is digital is in for a shock. The sound quality is HORRIBLE and the better your system the more it will tick you off. The sound quality is about the same as what their free web trial sounds like, which is, well, horrible. At low volumes it is tolerable but I prefer CD's or the I-Pod. I will not be renewing sirius unless they improve the sound quality. If they have to cut back on stations, so be it.
Just throwing this out there, anyone out there going into sat radio thinking the sound is going to be good just because it is digital is in for a shock. The sound quality is HORRIBLE and the better your system the more it will tick you off. The sound quality is about the same as what their free web trial sounds like, which is, well, horrible. At low volumes it is tolerable but I prefer CD's or the I-Pod. I will not be renewing sirius unless they improve the sound quality. If they have to cut back on stations, so be it.
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From: Jacksonville, FL (originally from Toronto Canada)
Originally Posted by jaybob
My Sirius sound quality was pretty decent with the FM modulator, but now I have it hard-wired to my auxilary port and it is CD quality. I would say that my Starmate's quality was not quite as good my S50 though.
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Yea that will be a constant change. each device will have its own sound quality output. so some of the people who complain about lacking sound quality on one service or another are likely victims of low quality parts in their device or connection style.
I've got a whine in mine but its from the vehicle itself. i need to isolate the grounds for the inline amp (the Delphi SkyFi's biggest failing is a low sound output level from its connection) Skyfi, Radio HU, to a common point. instead of 3 different locations.
I've got a whine in mine but its from the vehicle itself. i need to isolate the grounds for the inline amp (the Delphi SkyFi's biggest failing is a low sound output level from its connection) Skyfi, Radio HU, to a common point. instead of 3 different locations.
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Originally Posted by illy5603
My antenae is on the roof in the center by the hatch glass, not near the t-tops. Some people have mounted it in the bar between the two t-tops as well. You will want it as high up as possible, it loses signal enough around trees, buildings and taller vehicle as it is.
Just throwing this out there, anyone out there going into sat radio thinking the sound is going to be good just because it is digital is in for a shock. The sound quality is HORRIBLE and the better your system the more it will tick you off. The sound quality is about the same as what their free web trial sounds like, which is, well, horrible. At low volumes it is tolerable but I prefer CD's or the I-Pod. I will not be renewing sirius unless they improve the sound quality. If they have to cut back on stations, so be it.
Just throwing this out there, anyone out there going into sat radio thinking the sound is going to be good just because it is digital is in for a shock. The sound quality is HORRIBLE and the better your system the more it will tick you off. The sound quality is about the same as what their free web trial sounds like, which is, well, horrible. At low volumes it is tolerable but I prefer CD's or the I-Pod. I will not be renewing sirius unless they improve the sound quality. If they have to cut back on stations, so be it.
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Originally Posted by WhiteBird00
That's interesting...especially since the satellite antenna has nothing to do with the FM modulation (the wireless modulator is internal to the satellite radio - it doesn't use an external antenna). Putting the radio itself closer to the antenna might improve reception but it would be awkward to have to go into the hatch to change channels. That depends really. the SkyFi2 has a FM loop antenna in the Sat antenna wire. the two signals are so vastly different that they don't interfere with each other even traversing the same connection to the radio.
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Staging Lane
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From: salem ma
Originally Posted by JustAnIlluzion
stern, nuff said.
For rock I think XM is better. I used to work at Circuit City and listened to both a BUNCH before going with XM. XM has more rock channels, and it seems a deeper library of music as well. My favorite channel is Fungus, which is mostly punk. Sirius' channel for punk also plays hip-hop, and I can't stand any of that trash, so that was a huge mark against Sirius for me.
Originally Posted by 04goatinmass
i agree stern is enough reason alone to have sirius.throw in the nfl package and its a dream come true.also if anyone is interested they have the playboy channel but id rather see not hear
That's why I'm glad I got XM.
Originally Posted by 04goatinmass
thats why xm sales are dropping and sirius are booming then
First, XM still has more subscriptions. Second, the little doggy company has been giving away subscriptions with Mitsu and other Mopar brand cars. Because of this, there are about 100,000 cars in dealer lots that are counted as units.
Numbers don't lie, its the people that **** with the numbers that lie.
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From: Jacksonville, FL (originally from Toronto Canada)
Originally Posted by thingthatgoes
Please don't fall into the fudged numbers that unethical marketing techniques bring.
First, XM still has more subscriptions. Second, the little doggy company has been giving away subscriptions with Mitsu and other Mopar brand cars. Because of this, there are about 100,000 cars in dealer lots that are counted as units.
Numbers don't lie, its the people that **** with the numbers that lie.
First, XM still has more subscriptions. Second, the little doggy company has been giving away subscriptions with Mitsu and other Mopar brand cars. Because of this, there are about 100,000 cars in dealer lots that are counted as units.
Numbers don't lie, its the people that **** with the numbers that lie.
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From: salem ma
Originally Posted by thingthatgoes
Please don't fall into the fudged numbers that unethical marketing techniques bring.
First, XM still has more subscriptions. Second, the little doggy company has been giving away subscriptions with Mitsu and other Mopar brand cars. Because of this, there are about 100,000 cars in dealer lots that are counted as units.
Numbers don't lie, its the people that **** with the numbers that lie.
First, XM still has more subscriptions. Second, the little doggy company has been giving away subscriptions with Mitsu and other Mopar brand cars. Because of this, there are about 100,000 cars in dealer lots that are counted as units.
Numbers don't lie, its the people that **** with the numbers that lie.
Originally Posted by Scotty-Z
I'll just say that I work at Best Buy in the Car Audio department and Sirius satellite radios were our most popular item by far this year for Christmas (and even before that).
If I had to make a choice, based on the quality of the product and the listing of music types, I'd definitely go for Sirius. Their genres seem to be a bit more well-defined and have better hits.
Oh, and I really couldn't give a damn about Howard Stern.
If I had to make a choice, based on the quality of the product and the listing of music types, I'd definitely go for Sirius. Their genres seem to be a bit more well-defined and have better hits.
Oh, and I really couldn't give a damn about Howard Stern.
Last year when I worked the sales floor at Best Buy you literally could not buy or even order a sirius radio at times. My self I am addicted to Maxium radio and a couple of the comedy channels. I could care less if they carry stern or not.
sat radio's compression still bothers me when I listen to music. they are close to 128k mp3's but not quite. Any talk of xm or sirius upping the bit rate in the near future, or is that not possible with the current radios?
also, has anybody attempted to hardwire their radio to the stock monsoon headunit. In theory you could connect it to the cd changer audio ports but i'm not sure if that'll work or not.
Last edited by SmokingWS6; Nov 27, 2006 at 10:00 PM.
