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Re-discovered Satellite Radio..

About a year ago, I had purchased Sirius SR-H550 home tuner and 3 year Satellite subscription. It sat there for a year, because I did not like the sound from it.
Recently, I was re-arranging my audio gear and connected the output of SR-H550 to the Apogee Mini-dac via optical cable.
Boy what a difference!
I love it, fount a station that plays my kind of music(Channel 4 Easy listening). Now I am listening to the Satellite at home all the time.
Granted, it is not CD, but it is clean and warm(Thanks to Apogee mini-dac to Balanced out to Mark Levinson).

Now my search has begun for a real DAC with balance out. Any suggestions?

Thanks
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unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
If you like Satellite Radio I suggest you also investigate streaming audio with a decent DAC. Slimdevices squeezebox is a really wonderful unit for streaming audio and access to you computer's music files. I really think Satellite Radio is for cars; Home audio can do better.
dlr
201 posts
 
A similar thing happened to me. We moved so I had the Dish people run a line to my home office. It costs me an extra $6 a month and is well worth it. You are right about the quality of analog outputs. Barely FM quality. Now I am looking for a decent DAC. Tube would be preferred but not necessary. By the way, the "standards" station is great, so is the 50/60's, and "jams" when they have the Dead on. good luck. Dan
brianmgrarcom
1,317 posts
 
I am another that enjoys satellite music a lot. Like Dlr I get it through my DISH receiver; I have (long) interconnects running from the back of the DISH receiver to my preamp. Obviously the quality isn't top notch, still nice though, but I am down the hall when listening anyway. I have acquired new music due to the fact that I can play music that you simply can't get via the tuner where I am at, at least during the day.
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