SQ of xm/sirius compare to cd's?

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

how is the bitrate of satellite radio? since properly installing my components, they've killed me for mp3's, i can't even listen to them anymore. i know satellite will be better, but will it stack up to a cd?

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[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

FM radio is closer to CD quality than satellite radio

satellite radio's perks are availability and # of stations, not quality

the government kinda screwed satellite radio over by limiting it to a tiny ass bandwidth. they could improve the quality immensely if they didn't insist on having 8,000 crappy stations, and just had 20-30 cd quality stations that played music people actually want to hear, or if xm and sirius joined together and shared bandwidth

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

garbage!!!

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

looking around on the internet a bit i see both are claiming cd quality and "digital" quality (whatever the hell that means) sound. are they full of ****?

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Honestly, the quality is not all that great. CD quality is an extreamly relative term when it comes to marketing agenda's.

 

[ebrunn 10+ year member]

it varies alot from station to station, but no way the best is even close to CD or a high bit rate mp3. It sounds flat to me. But its something to listein to.

 

[LinxuS 10+ year member]

If you're just looking for a way of listening to new music, without buying CDs, it's alright.

If you want something high quality to listen to, then it's not for you.

Like I said, it gets the job done, but it doesn't do it well. I'm partly satisfied with mine, but I'm far from a SQ set up.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

that *****, mp3's just sound horrible to me these days and i've been spending a fortune on cd's.

it should easily own a 196k mp3 right?

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i doubt it. have you tried using lossless codecs when ripping your cd's? or downloading from higherquality sources such as oink?

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

nope, i pretty much gave up on any type of music files, i'll check out oink though.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

how do i get invited?

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

you'll need an invite. let me know if you're serious about it and i'll set you up.

and no people, please do not flood my inbox asking for invites. i only have a few.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

pm me your email. and when i get back to my house i'll send you one. you're also going to need a torrent client. i highly recommend 'utorrent'.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I like to think of it as FM minus the static //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

i'm serious about it. although i'm guessing its a trade thing and while i have quite a few mp3's, not many are decent quality.