Pandora streaming quality is mediocre at best in my MCIntosh based system.Added a music fidelity V90 DAC.Some improvement but still inferior to analog sources.
I stream Pandora in my car. Much better sound than Sirius or my car's FM radio. I had trouble with drop outs while driving when I tried Spotify.
For home streaming I plan to use Qobuz which is supposed to begin in the USA during the Rocky Mountain Audiofest which starts this Friday.


David Pritchard
lowrider57

Right On!  For my money, I still maintain the disposition that XM Radio is the better, stronger,  of the two Sat radio services. The merger did a dis-service to subscribers to be sure (sound quality-wise). To date, SXM has not been able to re-capture that glory. I started by XM Radio subscription back in 2005. I have paid for (2) "Lifetime" subscriptions, (1) under XM and the other after the initial merger in 2008, only to have been dropped during a computer upgrade, sat update in 2010.
Perhaps yet another merger via Pandora will yield a better pay-off (no pun) in sound quality to its core customers.   Happy Listening!