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In Reply to: RE: sirius for home posted by troutbum on January 02, 2014 at 06:33:44
Sirius/XM and most radio via the Internet is highly compressed and to my ear not worth connecting to a high end rig. Also I would rather get a basic Internet radio for under $100 which has a line out if needed. Sirius/XM has a monthly fee forever and just one hundred stations or so. Internet radio is free and has thousands of stations from all over the world. If you have a good Internet connection you can use the stations that have a 320K sampling rate, they sound pretty good.
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While not the ultimate in high fidelity the internet feed from Sirius/XM is much better quality than their satellite transmission. There is a fee but it is minimal compared to the satellite service ( $3 or $4 per month ) and you have access to the entire repertoire. I use it primarily for old time radio but occasionally Jazz and Xmas music. I do use both a cheap Grace ($49.00 as a refurb) and Cambridge Audio Internet tuners.
I hear ya. I have the little Grace too. Fine but slow to cache. I use it for talk radio or once in a while to find new music. Lots of stations compared to XM/Sirius. I wasn't aware of the other subscription thing you mentioned but do remember when DirecTV had XM as MPEGII a few years ago so it was good quality.
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I used it to warm up my amps for a couple of years, through a Bose tuner.
It was ok, but real FM is excellent here, two PB stations, one classical, one kinda indy, jazz blues.
And...15 bucks a month for warm up music is not cool.
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