XM Radio f'in ROCKS!

[WutARyd]

this should probably go in the Audio forum, but nobody ever goes there. I installed my Sony XM receiver...I bought the one with the car kit for portability. I also bought the home kit so I can listen to it indoors. Like a hundred something channels, and I listen to dance, hip hop, and like top 10 stuff, so this is perfect...anyways, I'm very happy with it, except for the car antenna, the thing is huge! Oh yeah and the price...like 525 with a 4 year warranty from Best Buy...Oh well, I'm happy with it!

[swift 21]

cool how big is the antenna

[WutARyd]

i will post a pic tomorrow... i am gonna try and mount it on the deck...hope it works through glass

[z6joker9]

you know how many cds i could buy with 525? hell how many blank ones and just burn...

hell doesn't xm even have commercials? there was a thing about that, were another compnay was doing the same thign except commerical free and cheaper too i think... maybe you should check into that stuff...

[GTS LAID]

well with about 700 these days you can get a phat ass neo set-up.. it cost me a thousand but its a little cheaper these days.

and you wanna know how many songs you can have on that???

try on the range of 20,000 songs... god bless random all... going from tribe to michael jackson to tchaikofsky is really priceless

[Camry2000]

XM radio will go the way of DIVX DVDs. Even if cost was not an issue, here is what XM radio can not solve.

You can't hear what you want when you want. I use to have an MP3 player with a few hundred songs in the car and was always pissed I could not find the song I felt like hearing at that moment. This is why I prefer CDs.

MP3s can do the same thing and there is no monthly charge. MP3s are even more customizable. You pick the songs you want. Don't like the song? Hit next. Like the song, hit repeat. My .02

[larryd]

actually i think XM is the commercialess one..

[Ugly Pete]

only around 20 stations are commercial free.... maybe less

[djm221]

All these arguements against it, here's one for it. You may here something you've never heard before, and really like it. Turning on the radio is easier and more convinient that doing MP3s, or picking out CDs. CDs scratch.

[LordZelica]

Sirius is the ad-less one

[torisup27]

XM is new & very nice but I just heard news about the company going down....I forgot where I heard it. I think from NPR.

[2000 XYR]

I don't think it will last. I'm not against it, but I don't think the idea of paying for radio will work long, unless you can actually pick the individual songs that you want to play. It's not enough to just give me 1000 different channels that play the same type of music. I'm picky. So I burn CD-R's of the songs I like. I wouldn't use XM if you gave it to me.

[djm221]

People pay for TV. The basic stations were free, people wanted more choice, out came cable, then Satellite.
I would get it if the unit weren't so friggin expensive. Especially around here since the radio stations suck balls. Not one decent classic rock station.

[WutARyd]

okay check it out....boeing will eventually use the xm satellites in their commercial liners, they just invested 500 million bucks into the system. they expected 15,000 subscribers when it came out, they had 33,000. there are only 30+ commercial free channels, but I have yet to hear one commercial on any of the 120 that I have. It's not like I can't still burn cds (or buy for that matter) and listen to a particular song. XM just exposes me to stuff that I would have had to research to download. Plus no high speed connection at my house = no downloading. Have to use school. What if I didn't go to school? There's 30-40 bucks a month for Cable, DSL whatever. Plus the home kit is the sheeeit...It was the most plug and play piece of audio equipment I've used.

[cruzerz545]

I here that man. Its called Kazaa I use it, and abuse it.



Originally posted by z6joker9
you know how many cds i could buy with 525? hell how many blank ones and just burn...

hell doesn't xm even have commercials? there was a thing about that, were another compnay was doing the same thign except commerical free and cheaper too i think... maybe you should check into that stuff...

[yakkosmurf]

Originally posted by Camry2000


You can't hear what you want when you want. I use to have an MP3 player with a few hundred songs in the car and was always pissed I could not find the song I felt like hearing at that moment. This is why I prefer CDs.

I agree. I'm too used to my in dash MD decks. I can travel with a small assortment of all the songs I want to hear. Then I can pull them up when I want to listen to them. I've had MD for about 5 years now. It's the best portable format still in my opinion. I've listened to MP3s made on the latest encoders at 128kb/s and they still don't sound as good as the recordings made on my MD deck. I had looked at XM, but I think it's going to be step backwards for me.

[z6joker9]

hell yeah, indash minidisc(of course it's got a cd slot too just in case :))

MD records cd quality, over and over, not scratchable and once named on the minidisc any other player will read it out...

i've had them for over two years and i dont understand why they aren't more popular

[LordZelica]

The recording is harder coz it's real time recording... CD u can just burn in 4 mins... I used to have MD but sold it off... CD burning is much more efficient... I used to have only 28.8kbps modem, but still manage to get songs i want... Now with cable... I d/l movies =)

[WutARyd]

that's okay, my stuff is tight

http://members.aol.com/cjoshbang/images/celixm1.jpg

[baNanA_ryCe]

nice hat!

[LordZelica]

Actually I'm thinking of going XM too since my new head unit (coming early april) is xm ready... but how big is the antenna and other kits??

[larryd]

so where is the pic of the antenna?

[2001SilverGTS]

Here's a couple of what I could find... these are either roof or window mounted antenna's.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/Images/CarProduct/AN90XM.jpg

http://goelectronic.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2/trksr2.jpg

http://goelectronic.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2/trksr1.jpg

Originally posted by larryd
so where is the pic of the antenna?

[GTS-Racer]

Originally posted by LordZelica
The recording is harder coz it's real time recording... CD u can just burn in 4 mins... I used to have MD but sold it off... CD burning is much more efficient... I used to have only 28.8kbps modem, but still manage to get songs i want... Now with cable... I d/l movies =)

is all about NET MD nowadays ;)

[MarkyMark]

I think it's a sh*tty idea from a consumer standpoint...having to buy a radio then pay $10/month to listen to it...when I can simply download stuff of WinMX/Kazaa and burn it at home. Besides, no radio station could ever play all the stuff I listen too.

[WutARyd]

yeah, the sony antenna looks like the first pic...they said you had to mount it on the body, but it looked like a shark fin. I tried it in the rear deck and it looks good there and very unnoticeable. And that hat was given to me by a friend of mine at a rave one night. People say I have a resemblance to Felix the Cat, hence Felix is on the front. By the way, if you wanted to mount the antenna outside, it can be painted and matched to body color without any loss of reception as long as you don't use metallic flake or anything with metal in it. Also, all the wires are hidden, so it looks pretty professional if I do say so myself. Here is a pic of the unit up close.
http://members.aol.com/cjoshbang/images/celixm2.jpg

EDIT: Larry D is that an FMIC on your ride???!

[z6joker9]

Originally posted by WutARyd

EDIT: Larry D is that an FMIC on your ride???!

Larry D - 1998 Eclipse GST


hmm... would make sense

[Rog315]

i actually had an idea a while back before satelite radio but you could upload music to a server in mp3 and wav form and you could access your stuff through your head unit...kinda like XM did but with your own sheite!

[WutARyd]

hmm... would make sense

uhhh....Front Mounts aren't stock there bucko, didn't realize he had added one

[z6joker9]

hmm... you're right again. It's just kinda obvious cause he would have reason to have it and what do you know, there's one in the pic! then he has a nice little link in his sig that takes you to his pics and mod list, which has a FMIC listed

besides, dont get mad, i was just messing with you :p

[WutARyd]

not mad, just lazy ;)