Eric Seaberg wrote: > I've got 2-SB3s, a Duet and a Transporter. I have SiriusXM in my cars > so I can listen to some news, NFL and MLB. My wife has a couple of > Sirius favorite music channels, but the quality of Sirius is HORRIBLE > compared to XM (receiver difference is totally amazing, and, I would > guess because of this technical ball-drop, they are uping the quality > everywhere). If I want music in my car, I've got high quality music > streams I subscribe to (128kAAC - 320kMP3) that I would rather listen to > via USB from my iPhone. Even on the SiriusXM stations that are "all > music", there's always commercials for their own shows. I understand > what they're doing, but I'm paying for MUSIC ONLY. > > I have taken time after researching SiriusXM changes (I've been an XM > customer since 2003) to determine I DON'T NEED XM on my LMS system (been > a Slim user since 2006). There are GREAT STREAMING options that offer a > wider variety of music (how many times have you heard the same tunes on > XM) at a much higher bitrate, meaning BETTER for EVERYONE. > > You guys are so welcomed to do what you wish with SiriusXM, but I'm > cutting back the plans on my cars and losing all streaming options. > Don't need it, and honestly, I may very well lose it in my cars since I > have more and BETTER SOUNDING options for less money per year. > > I've been in the recording biz since 1971 working in some of the > premiere recording facilities of the world... been to Abbey Road, too. > My ears have kept me alive in this industry for almost 45-years. > SiriusXM is NOT worth the price... look elsewhere. > > > > Happy music hunting...
I agree 100% when it comes to music vis SiriusXM. Nothing there I need to replace. But my wife (and me to a much lesser extent) really likes the NPR (mostly) and other news stations on XM. We listen to these in our cars a lot (we have a weekend trip we often make where FM is not reliable and the NPR XM shows are good company). And my wife is very hooked on certain XM NPR shows in the early evening. Since the loss I've managed to replace most of what she missed at home with streamable podcasts of the same shows (albeit a day later). The frustrating thiing to me is that the longer I'm involved in streaming digital music, the more things seem to move backwards rather than forward. I was just playing around with the single Sonos unit I bought last year to see how it worked, and just discovered that among its other limitations it can't even deal with compilation tags in a FLAC file. It seems very bizarre that an old technology squeezebox remains cutting edge! It's like the next models of cars are more like Model T's than 2015 Hondas. Weird. But the market seems to only care about people that want to stream to bluetooth speakers from their smart phones. That's fine, but that doesn't fit my needs. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
