Chop Wrote: > Not trying to be a downer, but won't the Sirius stream sound like > complete crap through a home stereo? I have XM and it offers low > bandwidth 32k and high bandwidth 64k WMA steams. The 64 is listenable > but by no means good sounding. > > I tried out Sirius using my friends account and unless I was missing > something, the only stream offered was 32k WMA. This is barely > acceptable on computer speakers, let alone a home stereo.
Actually if you even listen to the actual audio stream directly from the satellite using Sirius hardware, you'll hear a lot of imperfections and digital artifacts. Satellite radio is far from Hi-fidelity. It's more about variety. So you may want to reconsider your point. I actually listen to Sirius to get ideas for new CD's to buy. They have a decent rotation on most of their channels and best of all, all the Artist/Album/Song information is displayed, so you can make a mental note of what you like and then go out and buy the CD and load it onto slimserver for the true Hi-fidelity experience. The point of having a Slimserver plugin is to allow listening where you ordinarily wouldn't have a Sirius hardware tuner, or wouldn't want to pay for one. The online feed gives you portability and overall more value for the monthly subscription you are paying for. I feel I'm getting my money's worth by being able to stream Sirius from a computer, because I'm not often in my car (where my Sirius hardware is) and it seems foolish to be paying for something I wouldn't otherwise be able to listen to often enough. *Bradley -- Bradley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bradley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
