USB XM Satellite Radio

[Bob Cain]

I recently stumbled across this and got it:



(Sorry for the length of the link.) It's known as the
XMPC1000. USB connected XM radio. I'm enchanted and for
$50 think it one of the best investments I've made in a
while. Here in Santa Cruz, CA the FM radio dial is pretty
dead and I don't have a wideband link yet.

I sorta figured that folks with PC DAW's might find it
especially appealing. If the audio is lossy compressed, I
sure can't hear any artifacts. Great sound.


Bob
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[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> (Sorry for the length of the link.)

http://www.tinyurl.com works great for translating links to something
that everyone can click on (or remember long enough to get to another
computer and type it in). Try it.

> USB connected XM radio. I'm enchanted and for
> $50 think it one of the best investments I've made in a
> while. Here in Santa Cruz, CA the FM radio dial is pretty
> dead and I don't have a wideband link yet.

Last rental car I had was equipped with an XM radio. I got bored with
the eight jazz programs in about an hour and didn't have much luck
with other things that I found when fishing. Could be that I was
concentrating on driving and not in finding stations with programming
that I enjoyed and didn't give it a good shakeout, but after a day, I
went back to the conventional radio in the car. (This was in San
Diego)

I don't have a high speed internet connection either, but I'm willing
to put up with the low fidelity and occasional dropouts with a dialup
connection to listen to a few Internet radio stations. I'm always
doing something else when listening to the radio, so those burps in
the surface quality pretty much go right through me and I barely
notice. But occasionally I notice some music I really enjoy, and I'm
rarely annoyed with what I hear.

Guess I'm still just a plain old radio kind of guy.


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[Nousaine]

(Mike Rivers) wrote:



>Last rental car I had was equipped with an XM radio. I got bored with
>the eight jazz programs in about an hour and didn't have much luck
>with other things that I found when fishing. Could be that I was
>concentrating on driving and not in finding stations with programming
>that I enjoyed and didn't give it a good shakeout, but after a day, I
>went back to the conventional radio in the car. (This was in San
>Diego)

I was prepared to feel the same way. My new Rainier came with free-XM for 90
days and I must admit that I use it more than regular radio (save for local
news/weather/traffic and a few special programs) finding the 50-60s Decade
programming and Old Time Radio fascinating and remarkably good quality.

It seems obvious that it's data-reduced but with archival material it sounds
much better than it ever did on AM radio of the era. And after a couple months
of program-hunting I often get pleasantly surprised.

I'n seriously (no pun intended) considering signing up for real.