Sirius radio

[jcb]

the audio quality has gone downhill. The amount of compression and codecs they are using has squeezed all of awesomeness out of he music for me.

Sometimes it inhales having trained ears. There isn't enough bandwidth and file storage space in the world.

 

[Uncleromulus]

I have Sirius (actually XM) radios in both cars AND a unit in my home. I have not listened to "mainstream" radio in nearly 3 years.
Not a one of them now plays anything older than the mid 70's--all the old 50's and 60's stations are long gone.

I will admit that their customer services needs a little work. When I was trying to "transfer" the one radio to a new car I just bought, customer service hung up on me 3 different times!! When I decided to try their website customer service, I explained what I wanted to do. The rep on the other end told me he couldn't actually help me, but would recommend the # to call!!!!

Anyway, I FINALLY got an English speaking rep who understood the simple thing I wanted to do, and she did it for me..as the others should have done the 3 previous times I called.

 

[k5jm]

Sometimes it inhales having trained ears. There isn't enough bandwidth and file storage space in the world.

So true, Jack. For every 2 crap channels that XM/Sirius has, they could eliminate at least 1 of the 2 and give you a decent Stereo channel using HE-AAC @ 16kbps per audio channek, 32kb for both audio channels (40kb w/ overhead)

HE-AAC version 2 profile (HE-AAC v2) couples SBR with Parametric Stereo (PS) to enhance the compression efficiency of stereo signals. It is a standardized and improved version of the AACplus codec.
HE-AAC is used in digital radio standards like DAB+ and Digital Radio Mondiale.