Anyone think direct tv music channels sound good?

If you run the toslink out to a Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler and then to a D/AC, they actually sound real close to CD.

straight from my cheap Phillips Direct TV receiver it sounds pretty bad, all the ormal digital stuff, grainy and constricted and thin...

My tuner, CD player and turntable all easily beat it.

Its okay, but i get alot of cut-out, skips,
every now and then.

DirectTV ....listen to jazz station all the time....sounds a bit better using the coax output from the directv receiver to the audio note dac but sounds fine via analogue outputs direct to preamp...which allows me to use directv remote control as my preamp has no remote