I recently got a car with XM in it and I'm not all that impressed with it. Of course radio and entertainment in general today is lacking quality. I'm just trying to point out that out of the stations in San Diego KOGO is the closest thing to a true radio station we have in San Diego. KyXy died when they fired Yvonne Carlin that was the beginning of the end for the greatness and heritage of that station. By the way Yvonne was shown the door because she has integrity, and fought to do a quality show that was about San Diego, and not a watered down crap bomb show like they have now.
And as for Ipods the audio fidelity of those things are terrible, they give me headaches so bad. The only McIntosh I use for audio was made in 1966 and has tubes, the way audio should sound. Instead of being compressed to the point inaudibility.