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Wife just purchased a new Jeep with one year free Sirius subscription. Mostly listen to the
60's, 70's and Blend channels and digital artifacts (warbling) are noticeable on many
songs. Same radio on local FM sounds great. Also have XM in a GM car and dont hear digital warbling.
 
There's very little bandwith used for each channel. The more channels they add the worse it gets. I know it sounds terrible now as compared to before the merger. It would sound better if they just ran it in mono, but nobody wants that. I've read and it does seem true that if you listen to their internet or smartphone feed the sound quality is much better, but you have to pay more for that.
 
XM in the car does sound better than Sirius in the car, to my ears, but I get more dropouts with XM than with Sirius. They are both 'bandwidth challenged" compared to 6 years ago when the audio was top notch. Now it's just barely tolerable to my ears.
 
Xm sounds better?You need to clean your ears out,son!
Xm has shhhhhixties on shix and dropout issues.
My sirius never drops out.
At least Sirius has nice bass,yeah some days sound suffers,but its overall good.
Turn up the S-Plexer,baby!
 
Sirius in the Dodge - no dropouts ever, except getting gasoline under a metal roof, but the music channels - except classical channels - are barely passable as lowbitrate MP3's. Not a nice sound, even after playing with the 3 band EQ.
XM in Nissan- audio acceptable - not the horrible MP3 sound, but bass is lacking and dropouts in a few regular areas (under railroad bridge & large tree-lined areas). Same deal, play with 3 band EQ to get acceptable results, but only the classical sounds decent (and CC channels). My boss' XM in his big Buick arsehauler does sound fantastic though.
 
JohnnyElectron said:
Sirius in the Dodge - no dropouts ever, except getting gasoline under a metal roof, but the music channels - except classical channels - are barely passable as lowbitrate MP3's. Not a nice sound, even after playing with the 3 band EQ.
XM in Nissan- audio acceptable - not the horrible MP3 sound, but bass is lacking and dropouts in a few regular areas (under railroad bridge & large tree-lined areas). Same deal, play with 3 band EQ to get acceptable results, but only the classical sounds decent (and CC channels). My boss' XM in his big Buick arsehauler does sound fantastic though.
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Add some aftermarket tweeters,the stock ones are brutal!
 
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