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I dont have the little unit yet, but I have been enjoying XM for about a year now. I especially like the talk shows, and the Reggae and old school soul stations. |
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Kyle N
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That’s a nice solution.
Personally, I solved getting music around a little differently, and you may find it interesting;
A number of years ago when streaming music became available on the ’net, I started streaming from plpaces like "smoothjazz.com’ an other internet radio stations.At the same time, I had from a project I’d been on, about 250 or so C=120 cassettes. I’d stream the music to these cassettes.. about 2 hours each... and keep them in the truck. Not exactly a higher tech solution, but it’s free,(Which is always good) and quite listenable; once I got the system balanced and tuned, it works pretty well. Makes sense, too, because as a rule, jazz stations are usually not high power enough to carry them for very far when on the road. I usually have 40 or so tapes in the truck, (80 hours of stream) plus the CD changer and a stack of CD’s plus the terrestrial radio.
Of course at home getting music’s no big deal; I hvae an older computer with a first rate sound card in my home entertainment center. It has broadband access as well as access to my lan-based collection of music... around 300gb so far. It’s usually streaming from one or the other, whenever I’m home.
Talk shows? No biggie; I’m within earshot of wuite a number of first rate stations; All of New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse and even Albany sometimes, most of Eastern Canada, plus the big guns; WBZ Boston, WPHT Philly, WRVA Richmond, WWVA Wheeling, The Chicago stations WLS, for example...
So while the techie in me does admire the XM stuff, I don’t feel a whole lotta pressure to jump into the frey just yet. Maybe I will someday... but not just now. |
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Bithead
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I was subscriber 36,000 so I have been enjoying X-M for quite a while. If I had my wishes I’d wish that X-M had Howard Stern and NFL (Sirius has theses).
My wife got a My-Fi for her personal use. We still ahve a Delphi unit as well, so we are a three account family with only two people. Hmm fuzzy math...
I also enjoy the internet version, although the channels are limited to music and Opie & Anthony
Argueably, the best product Clear Channel owns. |
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Rick D.
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AN amazing product...a must have, and now prices have gone way down from the $350.00 of a year ago. |
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prozac
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SIRIUSLY Dale... I love satellite radio. I mean I am so SIRIUS about it. It’s the best thing that happened to my commute. Commercial free is worth twice what they charge for it, and I SIRIUSLY mean that.
You bagging what I’m raking? I’m hear to tell you that I SIRIUSLY recommend satellite radio to all the folks who peruse QandO. And when they are ready to make the plunge, then send ’em on over here |
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meagain
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And Larry Elder is on channel 124 from 6-9 Eastern every weekday... I can’t get his show since moving to Atlanta otherwise...
XM is great. When I’m in my wife’s car, and 6 of 6 FM presets all have commercials at the same time, and have crappy music the rest of the time, I just can’t take it.
I hear the $25 headphone/antenna combo for the MyFi is pretty helpful. I might have to get that one of these days. And the built-in FM modulator is GREAT for business travel in a rental car! |
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Brad Warbiany
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