Its all the same to me, as long as I have Fox News, 90s, and Comedy. I prefer XM's hardware.
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Well, not a question for me....
I have XM, have had it for well over a year now...
*and I hate it*
I didn't want XM though... but my father said if I buy XM equipment he'll add me to his family plan (since I was set on Sirius) so I did.... then stuff happens and I end up paying for it myself.
So now I pay like $13/month for something I don't use.
Really, back in NY, I would get tired of XM and throw in some of my MP3 CD's....
the whole 1,400 mile trip from NY-FL I listened to XM maybe a total of 2 hours? I just kept poping CD's in and had my 256mb flash MP3 player loaded with songs.
Since I have been in FL... forget it... I havn't listened to XM more then an hour... I try, espeically the 90's mix on Friday and Saturday night, but even that is lacking....
Tampa Bay has such amazing FM radio stations... top 40, country, late 60's-80's rock etc... the selection and playlists are amazing... this is the most I have ever listened to FM...
Delphi, guys that make XM gear, was always better then Sirius, I'll give them that, that was another thing, "at the time" Siruis didn't have a receiver that I liked at all, it HAD to have blue back lights... so, yeah...
Plus think back to MP3... XM compresses their music at about 160kbbs while Sirius is 192kbbs (don't remember the exacts, may be a bit higher for both) so Sirius does sound better.
Of course if you like MLB/Nascar, you are stuck with XM.... NFL,NBA,NHL have Sirius... personaly I couldn't care less about any of that.
Anyway, I was saying about Sirius.... I was flipping thru a Crutchfield and saw something that blew me away... then I did more research on it and played with it a bit at Best Buy....
All I gotta say is, the only thing keeping me from switching isn't the $130 it'll cost for the Sirius unit... but moreso the fact that I'll have to tear out the interior of my car (again) because of how I routed the cable for the XM antenna... on the same note, I could just leave it there but not use it (hide the wires) you know, for future use.... but I would still have to install the Siruis antenna that way... I could really bang it out in a couple hours, but I don't know if I want to...
but then again, I am tired of XM, I am serisouly considering to cancel it, I listen to FM all the time right now, its sad.
I may be a new Sirius subscriber soon....
Here it is, the Starmate that I really like:
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It is so nice... I can foresee myself switching in the next month or so, I'll give XM a little bit more time, then out it goes.
It sucks, because with my Roady, I have the car kit, the home kit, a spare nice antenna, the XM cigerette lighter thing that is power *and* FM modulator thingy, all that... if I could sell it all for $50 (works/looks great) then I would do it ASAP... but you can buy the Roady2 new for like $50... so even then, I would have to give the thing away...
Here is my Roady, I am very happy with the location, and how it looks. I have the backlight set to Night Blue, and at night, it is all a nice deep blue, it matches the Alpine's blue... I am happy with that aspect of it. When I put it in the Olds or '79 DeVille, I just threw it on the seat, works
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I have XM, have had it for well over a year now...
*and I hate it*
I didn't want XM though... but my father said if I buy XM equipment he'll add me to his family plan (since I was set on Sirius) so I did.... then stuff happens and I end up paying for it myself.
So now I pay like $13/month for something I don't use.
Really, back in NY, I would get tired of XM and throw in some of my MP3 CD's....
the whole 1,400 mile trip from NY-FL I listened to XM maybe a total of 2 hours? I just kept poping CD's in and had my 256mb flash MP3 player loaded with songs.
Since I have been in FL... forget it... I havn't listened to XM more then an hour... I try, espeically the 90's mix on Friday and Saturday night, but even that is lacking....
Tampa Bay has such amazing FM radio stations... top 40, country, late 60's-80's rock etc... the selection and playlists are amazing... this is the most I have ever listened to FM...
Delphi, guys that make XM gear, was always better then Sirius, I'll give them that, that was another thing, "at the time" Siruis didn't have a receiver that I liked at all, it HAD to have blue back lights... so, yeah...
Plus think back to MP3... XM compresses their music at about 160kbbs while Sirius is 192kbbs (don't remember the exacts, may be a bit higher for both) so Sirius does sound better.
Of course if you like MLB/Nascar, you are stuck with XM.... NFL,NBA,NHL have Sirius... personaly I couldn't care less about any of that.
Anyway, I was saying about Sirius.... I was flipping thru a Crutchfield and saw something that blew me away... then I did more research on it and played with it a bit at Best Buy....
All I gotta say is, the only thing keeping me from switching isn't the $130 it'll cost for the Sirius unit... but moreso the fact that I'll have to tear out the interior of my car (again) because of how I routed the cable for the XM antenna... on the same note, I could just leave it there but not use it (hide the wires) you know, for future use.... but I would still have to install the Siruis antenna that way... I could really bang it out in a couple hours, but I don't know if I want to...
but then again, I am tired of XM, I am serisouly considering to cancel it, I listen to FM all the time right now, its sad.
I may be a new Sirius subscriber soon....
Here it is, the Starmate that I really like:
It is so nice... I can foresee myself switching in the next month or so, I'll give XM a little bit more time, then out it goes.
It sucks, because with my Roady, I have the car kit, the home kit, a spare nice antenna, the XM cigerette lighter thing that is power *and* FM modulator thingy, all that... if I could sell it all for $50 (works/looks great) then I would do it ASAP... but you can buy the Roady2 new for like $50... so even then, I would have to give the thing away...
Here is my Roady, I am very happy with the location, and how it looks. I have the backlight set to Night Blue, and at night, it is all a nice deep blue, it matches the Alpine's blue... I am happy with that aspect of it. When I put it in the Olds or '79 DeVille, I just threw it on the seat, works
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but nightwolf, that's got blue back lights!
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