XM Problems?
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XM Problems?
For those of you with XM, I have noticed some things that I did not expect from XM. I'm not sure if this is how it should be or if mine just has issues. The first thing is when I will be driving around the signal will fade (I will get brief pauses of silence). This happens occasionally and maybe not even every day. It also happens when I pull in to my garage with the door open (the antenna being about 3ft from the open doorway). Also sometimes I can, in the background, hear something that sounds like a scrambled signal. I'm not sure how else to describe it. Lastly, the sound quality definitely does not sound like my CD as I was playing the same song on XM and CD. The XM version sounds like it is missing the highs, or maybe like someone threw a heavy a blanket over the speakers. Is this how XM is or should I take a trip to the dealer? Thanks.
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thats XM, for sure.....
high compression on the signals and lots of ground repeaters with only two satellites. Thus if you go out of line of site of a satellite and don't have a near by ground repeater you lose everything.
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Mine works great
I can use it in my garage with the door closed. I can hear it almost 2 levels down at my company parking garage. I'm in western PA with hills and tall buldings (Pittsburgh). Works great. I will be driving cross-country in July and will report then on what I find across America.
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about the same, but they do have more stations with less compression....
Sirius has 3 satellites and less ground repeaters, so it's about the same reception, depending on where you live.
I had XM for about a year and the stations I liked had heavy compression, which I didn't care for. I had Sirius for about a year too, and I noticed that Sirius seems to have less compression on their more popular stations for some reason. I really didn't notice it as much with Sirius. XM definitely has a better music station lineup, that's the one thing I missed.
I had XM for about a year and the stations I liked had heavy compression, which I didn't care for. I had Sirius for about a year too, and I noticed that Sirius seems to have less compression on their more popular stations for some reason. I really didn't notice it as much with Sirius. XM definitely has a better music station lineup, that's the one thing I missed.
