cd's no more Sirius satellite 90% of the time now
I find myself listening to satellite music 90% of the time now instead of cd's. Before anyone slams me this is not Sirius vrs XM discussion. Now I know most responses will state cd is much better quality etc... but I find satellite music to be very very acceptable in sound quality and also in the music selection that is played is fantastic, new old you name it they have it. Also I have never actually done a comparison with the same song between satellite and cd it would be interesting to do a double blind comparison at the same volume etc...
The last high end shop I was in was playing DISH and the owner said it was always on but of course for an audition a cd was used.
I will probably never buy another cd again. Does anyone else have the same experience?
sirius sound quality sketchy, try podcasts..
As much as I like Sirius, it's for the content, not the sound quality. This will undoubtedly get better as the technology matures. Some of the channels are being favored with more bandwidth I suspect. Others, like the npr channels, sound like highly compressed mp3's. None of the channels sound anything like cd. The best of them are more like FM quality. The worst are almost unlistenable. Regardless, the lack of relentless and obnoxious commercial content is enough reason to buy into the technology for me. A no-cost alternative are podcasts. Any mp3 player can be used. There are a number of ways to listen in your car or through other audio systems. Most are crap but there are more and more high quality and entertaining feeds out there now. For those of you that want a sample, download a podcasting client (Juice is my favorite and free) and check out the following. The Ricky Gervais podcast is especially entertaining. Cut and paste these into your client (ipodder, itunes, ipodderx..) and check them out.
http://leo.am/podcasts/twit
http://www.theworld.org/rss/glohit.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/rickygervais/mp3.xml
http://lukevenk.audioblog.com/rss/lo...y_and_jack.xml
http://reelreviewsradio.com/wp-rss2.php
http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/index.xml
http://www.onthemedia.org/index.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/moviesyoushouldsee
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/do...ve/markkermode
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/podcasts/travelcast.xml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...p3/podcast.xml
http://www.geeknewscentral.com/podcast.xml
http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/aud...italLifeTV.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/diggnation
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cinecast
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/down...st/podcast.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/IsraelismsPodcast
Lastly, if you think Satellite content is acceptable, a free and better sounding (depending on the bitrate of the station you tune into) is Shoutcast. Go to Shoutcast.com and pick from virtually any genre and stream to your hearts content. The sound quality of many of these stations has improved dramatically over the last year or two. If you find a channel you like, you can record any of it for later playback on a portable in your car system, home system or stream it directly to your home system any number of ways. For recording, I use a mac with audio hijck pro. The pc equivalent is Total Recorder Pro.