by geolemon » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:58 am
I have Sirius, an audiovox unit with a cradle in my Civic, my Pathfinder, and a boombox to plug it into in my workshop.
I love it. I used to work with a retailer that sold both XM and Sirius, and I simply compared music channels to make my decision.
I wasn't a huge Howard Stern fan, just a casual listener when he was on regular radio, but at that point his show was mostly a whine-fest about regular radio.
Now, I do end up listening to his channel on my morning commute, and the fact that he's not just on Sirius for the 'shock factor', ability to do obnoxious things - in fact, I don't think he hardly has so much as cursed since he's been on Sirius - that's caused me to have a whole lot more respect for him and his show. I think he's truly realized the ability to have freedoms to do things on his show that are unique and funny, and certainly edgy, but not obnoxious and offensive like Opie and Anthony (who recently returned to regular radio here).
So Howard didn't affect my original decision, but I would comment that he's really got two quality channels for when you don't feel like listening to music.
I believe even today, Sirius has better music channels, and unless there's a SQ component related to the tuner, the SQ of Sirius is better, it doesn't sound compressed like bad MP3's like my XM experiences have been. In originally comparing them, I had read something about Sirius's technology that was better, I am sure it boiled down to higher bandwidth and the ability to transmit more data.
I'm a big fan, I don't even listen to regular radio anymore... and hardly listen to my CD's any more, for that matter!
I have Sirius, an audiovox unit with a cradle in my Civic, my Pathfinder, and a boombox to plug it into in my workshop.
I love it. I used to work with a retailer that sold both XM and Sirius, and I simply compared music channels to make my decision.
I wasn't a huge Howard Stern fan, just a casual listener when he was on regular radio, but at that point his show was mostly a whine-fest about regular radio.
Now, I do end up listening to his channel on my morning commute, and the fact that he's not just on Sirius for the 'shock factor', ability to do obnoxious things - in fact, I don't think he hardly has so much as cursed since he's been on Sirius - that's caused me to have a whole lot more respect for him and his show. I think he's truly realized the ability to have freedoms to do things on his show that are unique and funny, and certainly edgy, but not obnoxious and offensive like Opie and Anthony (who recently returned to regular radio here).
So Howard didn't affect my original decision, but I would comment that he's really got two quality channels for when you don't feel like listening to music.
I believe even today, Sirius has better music channels, and unless there's a SQ component related to the tuner, the SQ of Sirius is better, it doesn't sound compressed like bad MP3's like my XM experiences have been. In originally comparing them, I had read something about Sirius's technology that was better, I am sure it boiled down to higher bandwidth and the ability to transmit more data. ;)
I'm a big fan, I don't even listen to regular radio anymore... and hardly listen to my CD's any more, for that matter! :p