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August 3rd 05, 10:04 PM
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David wrote:
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:28:39 GMT, D Peter Maus wrote: David wrote: On 3 Aug 2005 06:53:07 -0700, wrote: In that case, all they'd need to get rid of is the interface to the uP and a mini-USB jack. Steve Not going to happen Fetish Boy. People want freedom of choice. What do you have against a hi-fi feed of the BBC World Service 24 hours a day? XM's feed of BBCWS is hardly Hi-Fi. In many cases it sounds more like a low bit MP3 with shaped response to filter out the higher levelss of in spectrum aliasing noise. More refined than 5975, lower noise for sure. And more detailed, perhaps. Talk channels are more bandwidth limited than the music channels on XM. Most aren't stereo, either. XM is a lot of things, but one thing it's never going to be is Hi-fi. Hi-fi is relative. Truth is, I like Sirius sound better, but XM sounds higher fi than the HF feed, especially if S:N is a consideration. XM uses MPEG4, which synthesises the upper octave in the receiver. Sometimes with hilarious results. On the ABC Talk channel last weekend, the top end synthesized material lagged the baseband by enough to sound like a cheap slap. Rebooted to clear it up. MP4 or not, a lot of the talk channels, BBCWS included sound pretty ratty. I"ve only heard a couple of Sirius receivers. And those in pretty high noise environs, so an evaluation was pretty meaningless. I'm getting one later this week, though for evaluation. I'm interested to hear the differences. Truthfully, I'd rather hear HF on a well tuned Hammarlund. |
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