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Geluso
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:28 am Post subject:
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I want to buy a high-quality XM satellite tuner to connect to my
home stereo system. Do I have any other choice besides the Polk
XRt12 XM tuner?
If there are other choices, which unit offers the greatest sound
quality?
Thanks everyone,
Bill Geluso
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Kalman Rubinson
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:
Re: XM satellite Home Based Tuner |
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:28:58 GMT, Geluso
<hgeluso@bookworm.suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote:
| Quote: | I want to buy a high-quality XM satellite tuner to connect to my
home stereo system. Do I have any other choice besides the Polk
XRt12 XM tuner?
If there are other choices, which unit offers the greatest sound
quality?
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Don't sweat it. The audio is lossy-compressed anyway so making great
efforts for sound quality is quixotic.
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dorokusai
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:
Re: XM satellite Home Based Tuner |
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Kalman Rubinson Wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:28:58 GMT, Geluso
hgeluso@bookworm.suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
I want to buy a high-quality XM satellite tuner to connect to my
home stereo system. Do I have any other choice besides the Polk
XRt12 XM tuner?
If there are other choices, which unit offers the greatest sound
quality?
Don't sweat it. The audio is lossy-compressed anyway so making great
efforts for sound quality is quixotic.
Kal
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I have owned the Polk XRt-12 unit for about 2 years and I'm very happ
with it's performance. It's MILES above the Delphi home adapter in m
personal experience. The audio quality is much better.
SAT/TERRA based audio/video/data is always compressed in some form o
another, or at some point or another, so it's a no brainer that i
isn't the quality you may experience with your dedicated home system.
find it to be above average and better than my respective local FM.
I avoid FM like the plague because I don't care for commercials.
enjoy the content provided by XM, and Sirius for that matter, and a
happy we finally have alternatives. Kenwood makes home Sirius tuner, i
that's any help
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Kalman Rubinson
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject:
Re: XM satellite Home Based Tuner |
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:05:09 +0000, dorokusai
<dorokusai.1y80ow@audiobanter.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have owned the Polk XRt-12 unit for about 2 years and I'm very happy
with it's performance. It's MILES above the Delphi home adapter in my
personal experience. The audio quality is much better.
Nice to hear. |
| Quote: | SAT/TERRA based audio/video/data is always compressed in some form or
another, or at some point or another, so it's a no brainer that it
isn't the quality you may experience with your dedicated home system. I
find it to be above average and better than my respective local FM.
Comparing the XM input from the "connect-and-play" antenna and the FM |
reception on the same Denon receiver shows that the XM is more
noise-free and gets more consistent reception; the FM simply sounds
better.
| Quote: | I avoid FM like the plague because I don't care for commercials.
I dislike XM because I don't care for their announcers/DJs. I much |
prefer my cable-radio provider, DMX. No announcers or DJs (all info
on LCD screen) and better sound quality.
| Quote: | I enjoy the content provided by XM, and Sirius for that matter, and am
happy we finally have alternatives. Kenwood makes home Sirius tuner, if
that's any help.
Again, nice to hear but not for me. |
Kal |
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