Steve Baumgarten wrote: > Bradley wrote: >> Satellite radio is far from Hi-fidelity. It's >> more about variety. So you may want to reconsider your point. > > This is the dirty little secret of the satellite radio industry: what > they're broadcasting sounds like crap.
Its no secret. > Probably fine for listening in your car (or via a Sirius boombox), Which is the initial design point. The marketingdroids are singing the silly bull about 'digital' means quality, but no one takes is seriously. It is seriously compressed, bandwidth on satellite transponders is expensive. A moving car is too noisey to have any serious Hi Fi. The sound level of moving luxury cars is way over 60dBa, It has to drown out any subtle audio artifacts. 60dB + 96dB from a RedBook audio is 156dB which is way into pain and deafness. The threshold for pain is about 130 dB, Aircraft carrier jet takeoff is around 140dB. Variety, convenience, are realistic goals. Serious quality is not there. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
