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In Reply to: Help with car stereo system (yeah i know, wrong forum)... posted by bruckner9 on May 28, 2006 at 10:21:23:
. . . consider getting Sirius satellite radio. (Or that *other* provider.) IMO well worth the thirteen bucks a month.I assume almost every unit on the market these days has AM, FM, CD, and some sort of line in for iPod. Probably more difficult to find a unit that plays cassettes and 8-tracks.
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tight, what is it about the sirius you are liking?
The wife and I bought our units for Howard Stern. For us, it's very cool to have uncensored Stern show, and they rebroadcast it throughout the day so if you miss it in the morning, you can catch it later.Other stations I like:
OutQ (Frank deCaro and Derek & Romaine are fun talk shows)
NPR (a talk channel, and a news channel), PRI, and BBC
Two standup comedy channels (one "family friendly", the other not)
70s (their playlist goes quite deep)
The Vault (classic rock, but album cuts that aren't normally on classic rock radio)
Underground Garage (programmed by Little Steven, Joan Jett has a weekly show)
Chill (ambient techno)
The wife likes the classical vocal station, they play an full-length opera once a dayI honestly did not expect to like it as much as I do. We happen to live in a market that still has very good terrestrial radio (Los Angeles), but I anticipate the situation to not be as good when we move to Birmingham AL in September.
One thing that XM has over Sirius is major league baseball, which IMO is the only sport worth listening to on the radio.
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. . . for many reasons, not least of which are real estate prices!
Yep. Real estate should be a big happy change from here. I've not been to Alabama but I lived in the South (not SoCal, I'm there now!) for several years, many years ago, and enjoyed it. Have fun!
The sound quality is not as good as FM. For the car, not a problem, but for close music listening maybe not quite there. Think MP3.
It's pretty sad that "satellite" radio isn't sonically superior to FM, but hey, that's where it is today.The masses are happy with MP3 quality. :(
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I actually don't listen to Pure Jazz that often, but the few times I have, they seem to actually have good programming.I am spoiled by having KKJZ (Kjazz) here in L.A.
> > It's pretty sad that "satellite" radio isn't sonically superior to FM, but hey, that's where it is today.
AFAIK it's a tradeoff between variety and sound quality -- there's limited bandwidth and it gets split between all the stations. And IIRC music stations get more bandwidth than the talk stations. (The few times I've heard music being played on one of the talk stations, it was really bad, like low-quality MP3 or .wav)
I'm curious what your hardware situation is like. My wife has the Sportster, which she listens to in her car and on the boombox, which she has at work. I have the Starmate, which I use in the car and at home -- in the car I use the FM transmitter, at home I use the line out into the hi-fi.
That Tivoli table radio looks very classy, would be perfect for the office, but pricey.
> > That Tivoli table radio looks very classy, would be perfect for the office, but pricey < <Wait a few weeks before buying that Tivoli. Sirius will be streaming Howard 100 and 101 online starting in June. Subscribers will be able to log in and access Howard from anywhere, assuming your employer doesn't block audio streams. Mine does so I run the output from my home Sirius tuner into my PC, record the Stern show as an MP3, burn it to a CDR, and listen to it at work the next day.
That's a cool setup. I'm not even that hi-tech.I am not seriously considering the Tivoli radio. I just think it's a good looking radio -- the normal AM/FM ones are really nice as well. And purportedly very good sounding for its size with excellent reception.
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it came as a standard feature. I listen to three channels Baltimore traffic, washington trafic and one jazz channel. Their classical offerings are anemic, their rock is crap, I am not certain of sirius is much better. The good thing is that it works everywhere. (well allmost).dee
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