Anyone Using XM or Sirius On Their System?

What is the weak spot with satellite radio? Is it the mid-fi tuners or the broadcast signal?

Does satelllite radio have a future in hifi? Does it have the potential to be better than the best FM?

If so, what will it take to get there and how many years away are we?

If not....why not?

The limitations occur in the bandwidth, watch out for services to add more channels. When more channels are added all of them suffer from less bandwidth, I have Sirius
and agree that Musichoice is pretty awesome, no it is not quite as good as Redbook, but is very enjoyable and for me being disabled is great to sit and listen to many types of music without loading a CD or an Album. Ofcourse I do alot of Redbook and soon LP when my SOTA gets setup.

I run XM from Direct TV tuner digital output through my Dodson 218 DAC and into high grade pre and power amp, thus giving the sound every opportunity. In a word, the sound quality SUCKS! The Music Choice stations they had previously were better. The sound from both of my tuners, Mac MR-80 and MD 100, is infinitely better.

Satellite radio is strictly for cars.

Neal