Sirius Radio

Website · by **Turbosolara** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:03 pm

I felt so sick of downloading mp3 and buy CDs. I found those setallie radio were playing really good track and i also found Sirius radio has $500 lifetime deal. I really want it.

Does anyone has sirius radio here? I wonder how it works...
Is the deal only work on one receiver only? or only one account but your switch receiver (such at home or at car)

by **Yanks0114** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:53 pm

I have XM and Davpak has Sirius.

Both has excellent sound quality.
I love my XM but its biggest flaw is poor content. As for Sirius, I have heard that they have a better selection but i'm not too sure.

Do you have an aftermarket head unit. Most intergrate very easily with XM.

I would advise against the $500 lifetime deal because it'd be very difficult to predict the future of either of the two companies. It appears as if XM has a better foundation, with over 1 million customers, but neither companies are a solid bet

by **Rudy** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:24 pm

i heard XM and sirius will probably merge soon or something.

My car came with an XM antenna, and controller thing, and it's now june, and still running, so i dont know if this guy is still paying for it or not

. Or maybe i have a lifetime subscription thing?

either way Ethel XL is a great station... (XM 47 i think?)

by **Mudd** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:46 am

Sirius and XM are most certainly NOT going to merge anytime soon.

Go to Best Buy. Buy a Kenwood deck that's Sirius ready and get an antenna for it, you'll get the tuner for free. They're lifetime service is like $500. I pay for it by the year, they give 3 month for free when you do that.

If you're comparing Sirius to XM, Sirius has a little bit better sound quality due to superior compression, I also like their music selection better than XM. Just a personal preference though, XM is still very, very good. But the ONLY reason they have more subscribers than XM is because they've been out longer. Look at the stock history on both companies.

by **fotodad** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:53 am

UltraslowSolara wrote:I felt so sick of downloading mp3 and buy CDs. I found those setallie radio were playing really good track and i also found Sirius radio has $500 lifetime deal. I really want it.

Does anyone has sirius radio here? I wonder how it works...
Is the deal only work on one receiver only? or only one account but your switch receiver (such at home or at car)

Ultra,

I've got Sirius and I'm quite pleased with it, but, like many have said, those who have XM seem quite happy, too. I'd kinda stay away from the lifetime membership thing, too. I paid something like $125.00 for a year membership, but I got the PanaPacific Streamer receiver, the car cradle, and the satellite antenna for free.

I'd go to siriusbackstage.com and XM's forum and ask some questions. XM has many more subscribers, so they might be financially more stable. I choose Sirius because of the deal they were offering and the programing is more to my liking (60s, 70s, 80s, New Wave, and EZ Listening).

The problem I'm finding is I can't directly hook the Sirius receiver to the factory radio. No after market company seems to make a cable for the generation two Solaras which will go between the CD changer input on the radio and the Sirius receiver output. I'm currently hooked up via an FM transmitter. I understand a direct hook up sound noticably better.

Good luck.

by **eugene5786** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:01 pm

i got sirus with my kenwood deck. not bad stuff. paid for a year, turned out if you order a year and count per month its the same as xm $9.99. I never heard xm but at this point i dont care. i have used sirus for about 2 weeks. i have yet to play any disc

by **indiglosolara** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:28 pm

i have siruis also...

i bought the ant and they gave me the tuner for free,

the funnie thing is that when i went to purchase the unit they didn't have any instcok.. so they gave me the demo one on the wall which was working with there radios at the time,

when they took it off the wall they just handed it to me with all wires ant and instructions and everything for installation for $79.00 and i purchased the 5 yr warranty on the unit for $20 bucks..so $99 our the door.. ant was about $50.00 and adaptors...

the good side is i never had to activate the unit, pretty much they forgot to deactivate the unit when they gave it to me so i've been using it for about 9 months now and never paid a monthly fee, they are pretty much paying for me... i paid just the cost of the unit.. great sound.. but i would get some drop out sometimes..

by **Gyaf** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:41 am

btw- i'm pretty sure the lifetime fee is for the life of the headunit you attach it to, like Tivo.

If you switch headunits, you'd be paying a new fee.

by **Yanks0114** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:02 pm

Gyaf wrote:btw- i'm pretty sure the lifetime fee is for the life of the headunit you attach it to, like Tivo.

If you switch headunits, you'd be paying a new fee.

I know, atleast with XM, you can do a radio ID switch and use the same subscription to activate a new radio if you get a new car. I'd imagine its the same for Siruis

by **Gyaf** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:00 pm

good to know - thanks

by **robdaemon** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:13 am

The problem I'm finding is I can't directly hook the Sirius receiver to the factory radio. No after market company seems to make a cable for the generation two Solaras which will go between the CD changer input on the radio and the Sirius receiver output.

http://www.soundgate.com - they have several different adapters. I have the Sony adapter, it functions as a Sony CD changer input AND an aux input. It works great.

They make a Kenwood and Pioneer module also.

I'm using that Soundgate adapter with a Brix Streamer Sirius setup, and it works great. I tried the FM modulator route first and I really despised it.

by **prowlerartist** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:26 am

i have xm and im very happy with it. I especially love the fact that there are NO comercials on any of the music stations! xm also offers those 60 70 80 and easy listening that you wanted

by **Gyaf** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:43 pm

robdaemon wrote:
The problem I'm finding is I can't directly hook the Sirius receiver to the factory radio. No after market company seems to make a cable for the generation two Solaras which will go between the CD changer input on the radio and the Sirius receiver output.

http://www.soundgate.com - they have several different adapters. I have the Sony adapter, it functions as a Sony CD changer input AND an aux input. It works great.

They make a Kenwood and Pioneer module also.

I'm using that Soundgate adapter with a Brix Streamer Sirius setup, and it works great. I tried the FM modulator route first and I really despised it.

So you opened up the radio and somehow connected this to the back? Also - which radio did you have before you did this?

If this is what you did, I think a lot of people here were curious on what you could do back there from the bit i read - post any info about what you did and how you did it

by **mcgervey** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:18 am

Hi folks,

Read this thread. My question is, is there a way to use the factory radio to hook up XM? Or do I need the FM Modulator route?

If there is an input on the factory/JBL headunit, it can hook directly in as I understand it.

Thanks,

Rich

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