XM Keeps beeping at me!

[camhabib]

I'm about as far east as you can get. I'm in Massachusetts

I probably should have clarified - how far out west in Mass you are. I have a good friend who lives out towards the Berkshires and has to use satellite for his internet since there are no other "high speed" options. I'd probably expect XM to be the best sounding out there given the distances and signal coverages of other broadcasts, but it may change as you approach more population areas.

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[RedTouringMA]

I probably should have clarified - how far out west in Mass you are. I have a good friend who lives out towards the Berkshires and has to use satellite for his internet since there are no other "high speed" options. I'd probably expect XM to be the best sounding out there given the distances and signal coverages of other broadcasts, but it may change as you approach more population areas.

I'm closer to central MA, not far from Worcester. I went to the Berkshirespecialist last Friday and had great reception on my XM.

 

[Negative3]

Nope, 25 bucks for 5 months.
I don't have an iPhone and no interest in getting one. And no interest in paying apple for a service either. If your XM doesn't sound as good as the rest of the stereo options you need to take your car in for service, as the sound should be the same no matter what option you're using. I've used XM for over 10 years and I like it. To each his own, no need for the hostility and profanity.

XM is horribly compressed and tinny when stacked up against even the fm station let alone apple streaming or apple lossless audio files from my ipod. Friends of mine have the service and have noticed the same - but then again we all have somewhat trained ears and experience in recording studios as sound engineers so we're not the largest demographic by any means...

Wasn't meaning to be hostile to anybody in particular, but xm tells me they want $15 a month and I am honestey offended when you factor in the hard work involved wen an artist and recording engineer get a song or album to sound just the way they intend it to - only for some half assed consumer product to come along and degrade the quality and experience.

 

[david1pro]

XM has one or two channels were they may dedicate a decent amount of bandwidth, but I agree, the vast majority of their channels suck horribly. It could be that certain listeners just tune to those good channels and haven't noticed all the other ones sounding like they are being broadcast underwater. I also agree if the radio station you are listening to is not HD, it doesn't sound really good in this car. I have a few radio stations that are not locally HD and I play them through my phone via bluetooth as their internet-based signal sounds so much better.

Except when it's being choppy due to drop outs, I find the Bluetooth quality in this car is actually pretty good. Assuming your original files or source is good, of course. Also, being used to bluetooth, you give yourself hundreds of thousands ochoices for music and talk and everything else. You can go several hours on most smartphone sources without using too much data. Most people's phone plans should be much cheaper as a music source than satellite radio ever could be, and be better quality sounding to boot.

 

[RedTouringMA]

XM has one or two channels were they may dedicate a decent amount of bandwidth, but I agree, the vast majority of their channels suck horribly. It could be that certain listeners just tune to those good channels and haven't noticed all the other ones sounding like they are being broadcast underwater. I also agree if the radio station you are listening to is not HD, it doesn't sound really good in this car. I have a few radio stations that are not locally HD and I play them through my phone via bluetooth as their internet-based signal sounds so much better.

Except when it's being choppy due to drop outs, I find the Bluetooth quality in this car is actually pretty good. Assuming your original files or source is good, of course. Also, being used to bluetooth, you give yourself hundreds of thousands ochoices for music and talk and everything else. You can go several hours on most smartphone sources without using too much data. Most people's phone plans should be much cheaper as a music source than satellite radio ever could be, and be better quality sounding to boot.

I listen to Classic rewind the most, and when I toggle between a local FM HD and this XM channel, sounds the same to me.

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