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Anyone try thr new Sirius satellite radio system?

Has anyone subscribed to the Sirius satellite radio system in their home setup? How is the sound? If so what tuner are you using? Is it Cd/Lp quality? Any other info you want to add.
ljgj
mstram
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Buscis2, my unit is th Delphi SkyFi which basically plugs into a dock just like a PDA. I can take it from my car which uses the FM modulation, to my home which connects to my preamp via a mini jack to RCA connection. There is no capability for DAC connection via digital output. I am hoping in the future that somebody makes such a unit to use in a home system.
royy
148 posts
 
I canceled mine after a week. not much better than free fm broadcast.
brianmgrarcom
1,317 posts
 
Like Gabbro I listen to Sirius that is supplied through my Dish Network. I do enjoy it because where I am at I cannot get any Jazz until evening. I am quite surprised by the sound at times, but that happens when your expectations are not high; obviously not better than my CD player, but enjoyable nontheless. I haven't used my tuner much at all lately. As for Stern's addition, to each there own, if I was chosing to buy, I would go for XM just because of that, and I have voiced my opinion, but that is a whole other matter.
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creativepart
155 posts
 
I have XM and like the others here LOVE IT. I'll never be without it in any future car. XM has 2 to 3 times as many subscribers as Sirius. I've always figured that eventually XM will just buy out Sirius. I have no knowledge of this, that's just my guess.

I've had mine for nearly a year and a half. I chose XM over Sirius because at the time Sirius was really struggling with less than 100,000 subscirbers. Now I'm hooked on XM. If I were choosing a new, I'd definately go with XM over Sirius all over again.

Paul Green
mstram
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XM has 3.2 million subscribers, while Sirius has still fewer than 1,000,000. Stern is going to cost them $100 million a year over 5 years. That seems nuts to me. They need to add a million subscribers just to pay for him. That means that they are counting on ove 10% of Stern's current listeners to subscribe. Very risky.
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