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XM Radio - Anyone Getting It Through DirectTV?

We moved a few months ago into a new and larger home. And long before the move I had my fill of the miserable picture provided by our cable TV service (Comcast). So we set up a DirectTV account and LOVE the service as well as the extra clean picture on every channel. (One of my main beefs with cable was the ghosting on at least two or three of the lowest channels on our cable system.)
A few weeks back we discovered the various XM channels that we get as part of our service package. My main question concerns the quality of the XM signal we are getting vs. that recieved by a dedicated XM satellite receiver. Is there any real difference? I can tell you that the classical channels on XM certainly have a LOT more enjoyable music than much of what our local classical station plays most weekday mornings.
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avguygeorge
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I have been with Directv (D*) for just about 10 years.
A few month back our music stations were swapped out to xm-radio.I probably listen to their music as much as anybody; and then some.
The change from music choice to this xm-radio has been very good with just a few shortcomings. One being the chatter between selections/ or offers to upgrade to more stations. (Different levels of programing allow for more stations.)They just seem to have a play-list on most stations that is much better than Music Choice ever had. One big exception is "Classical Country". Music Choice 829 was more to my liking than all of their country stations combined. However,I can tell you this; the sound quality is only as good as the dac you are using. The sound quality is there !! I doubt their all in one receivers is half as good my 2ch-pmc sound. 10 years ago I had Theta Digital install their coax-out, board, in my Sony box. I use the Audiomeca dac and a 1k dig. cable.So, as you can see digital radio is important to me.
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