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Old 03-09-2012, 09:41 PM
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Josh.......Not all XM channels are equal. When I subscribed to XM I noticed that some channels sounded far better that others, and I began researching to see why. As it turns out XM uses different types of compression schemes on different channels. I don't know the reasons why they do that, so I can't help you with that. I originally subscribed for three years, then canceled my subscription. I came to the conclusion that I wasn't listening to XM broadcasts often enough to make the price of subscribing worth my use. I still have my antenna on the side of the eave on my roof, so I can always subscribe again if I want. I am actually enjoying the terrestrial signals, both FM and FMHD, and best of all there is no fee for those signals.

As far as XM sounding as good as CD's, no not really. The signals sound very good, especially if you are tuning one that isn't compressed to hell and back, but CD's sound better.

Dan Thanks! I did not know that different XM channels use different types of compression. This helps me a lot!!
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