XM Satillite Radio

deronb1
deronb1 Posts: 5,021
edited November 2012 in 2 Channel Audio
I am thinking of adding an XM tuner to my 2 ch system. Who sells such a thing that would work with my older Adcom pre?
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  • nwohlford
    nwohlford Posts: 700
    edited November 2012
    Polk made one for a while. I have one I am not using. I would look at the wifi options. The audio quality is (or at least used to be) better over wifi.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited November 2012
    nwohlford wrote: »
    Polk made one for a while. I have one I am not using. I would look at the wifi options. The audio quality is (or at least used to be) better over wifi.

    Thanks. I saw one on the XM site that I am mulling over. Looks like it would work. Sound quality is important obviously, but I am not expecting it to sound like a good CD or vinyl.
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  • nwohlford
    nwohlford Posts: 700
    edited November 2012
    I believe that the over the air signal is around 40 kbit/s while the internet is 128 kbit/s. I think that the internet is fine, but I have a hard time listening to the over the air even as background music.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2012
    As disappointed as I am with XM, I'm even more disappointed with the Sirius/XM merge. Sirius radio has alot of "swooshing" artifacts in it's broadcast, a huge indicator of super low bit rate---it SUCKS, and I likely will not renew my Grand Cherokee account. It is worse than MP3 music, seriously.

    Satellite radio had such huge potential for audio, and they go and cheap it all out---figures.
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