Sirius Sound Quality

[CEaton2 10+ year member]

I have a sirius starmate connected to my kenwood kdc-mp628 via RCA Aux input. The sound quality just isn't what I had expected it to be, is that a problem with sirius, or do you think it is my reciever, I was thinking about getting the kenwood tuner for my headunit, would that help?

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[XtrmAudioCncpts 10+ year member]

i think it could be your reciever

 

[Do_ 10+ year member]

Unshielded RCA input?

 

[CEaton2 10+ year member]

I'm just using a mini jack to rca adapter from radioshack, but I have plugged that cable into an mp3 player without any problems, so you think I should try the kenwood add on tuner? If I do, will all the text and categories come up on my reciever?

 

[Spkrman]

I'm just using a mini jack to rca adapter from radioshack, but I have plugged that cable into an mp3 player without any problems, so you think I should try the kenwood add on tuner? If I do, will all the text and categories come up on my reciever?

Yea they will.

Demo the unit first if at all possible... honestly satellite radio just doesn't sound *that* good //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

my quality is good on my tuner. i can see the name of the stations just not the songs i guess my hu doesnt have the feature but the modelabove mine does. so u may wanna check into it first

 

[Subz 10+ year member]

I've got XM but I'm assuming it's pretty close. In the manual that came with my receiver (Roady2) it had a chart of best to worst quality with the Direct Tuner being the best (almost CD quality), and FM transmit being the worst. It will probably cost you about $100 though.

 

[Spkrman]

I've had sirius and XM, definitely prefer sirius... both in SQ and programming.

 

[CEaton2 10+ year member]

Yeah, so I guess I will go ahead and get used to the Starmate, which is the equivalent to XM's Roady2, just that I'll have Howard Stern in Jan. I will probably wait to get a direct connect tuner until I get my Kenwood 7017.

 

[blowsoot 10+ year member]

AUX and Tuner should be the same quality from what I hear. Im using the ALP-SIR1 tuner for my Alpine HU. Satellite radio is not CD quality. Some stations are better sounding than others it seems like. The quality isnt that bad you can tell a difference but its not bad.

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

satelite radio is better than radio, but definitly not cd quality.

 

[DJ Riggz 10+ year member]

my sirius sounds like its in a tin-can unless the eq is seriously tweaked.

 

[gnet158 10+ year member]

my sirius sounds like its in a tin-can unless the eq is seriously tweaked.

Mine too, but after that is sounds great!

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

Sirius and Sound Quality do not mix. you probably wont get any better sound.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

I hear the reason satellite radio doesn't have good quality is the government limited their bandwidth.