Well I have no sound issues with my MYFi XM receiver. Sounds great with no noticeable compression. I highly doubt Sat radio will ever be a thing of the past. What's out there to compete? High Def radio? LOL
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all cars w/ satellite radio have this. Go onto VWvortex and do a search for XM or Sirius sound quality....those GTI's come standard with it and everyone b*tches about how bad it sounds. It's highly compressed data........which loses a lot of sound quality on both the highs and lows. Satellite radio may very well be a thing of the past in 5 years, with other options that are coming out...
I have listened to XM in a couple of different vehicles and it has never sounded as poor as it does in the FJ.
Well I have no sound issues with my MYFi XM receiver. Sounds great with no noticeable compression. I highly doubt Sat radio will ever be a thing of the past. What's out there to compete? High Def radio? LOL
HD radio is one consideration, yes. Soon all of your favorite stations will have multiple channels to choose from for free, with text scrolling just like your satellite radio or RDS signal does now.
Internet radio is also a very real possibility as well. When (not if) internet comes to cars in the next 5 years or so, internet radio will be able to stream over your car's radio in non-highly-compressed format. Both HD and internet radio will be free, so yes I see XM and Sirius being obsolete unless they drastically change things soon....
I think it will be a giant upswing in subscribers for a year or two, followed by a big falloff....
Last edited by Bostonian1976 : 04-06-2006 at 07:21 AM.
all cars w/ satellite radio have this. Go onto VWvortex and do a search for XM or Sirius sound quality....those GTI's come standard with it and everyone b*tches about how bad it sounds. It's highly compressed data........which loses a lot of sound quality on both the highs and lows. Satellite radio may very well be a thing of the past in 5 years, with other options that are coming out...
I have 3 other cars that are almost completely stock and have the XM in it. Sounds wonderful. I think its when the factory adds a modulator behind the headunit instead of investing in a headunit that takes the signal. Ive heard the cars with the modulator outside the head unit, and they suck, this might be why the XM in the FJ and GTI's.
I have 3 other cars that are almost completely stock and have the XM in it. Sounds wonderful. I think its when the factory adds a modulator behind the headunit instead of investing in a headunit that takes the signal. Ive heard the cars with the modulator outside the head unit, and they suck, this might be why the XM in the FJ and GTI's.
-Rich-
oh yeah that is the case w/ the GTI as well....since it's just a unit mounted in the trunk. maybe that's why!
So, does anyone have a fix for this - to beef up the signal coming from the modulator?
A very good friend of mine works for Toyota. I had him listen to the sound quaility yesterday and he agreed that when on the XM function it was less than good. I will work with him to try and find a solution and report back. However, my gut is telling me that there is nothing that can be done to address the sound quality.
I have 3 other cars that are almost completely stock and have the XM in it. Sounds wonderful. I think its when the factory adds a modulator behind the headunit instead of investing in a headunit that takes the signal. Ive heard the cars with the modulator outside the head unit, and they suck, this might be why the XM in the FJ and GTI's.
-Rich-
I agree with you. I have XM in my 2004 Chevy Silverado and it sounds great (almost as good as a CD). The sound quality and is far better then the Toyota XM radio. I'm not sure if the XM modulator being separate from the HU is the root of the problem as the XM modulator is separate in my Chevy, but it's possible.
One thing that I noticed with the Toyota unit is the tiny antenna. The Chevy antenna is about 5 times the size. The other day it was raining very hard and I lost signal in the FJ. The signal and sound quality seemed to degrade as the rain got heavier (almost like going from Stereo to Mono in terms of quality). Then the signal just went away and nothing was coming out of the stereo. I thought to myself, in 2 years of having XM in my truck I have never lost signal or had the sound quality degrade.
My theory is that if the signal strength isn't good then the HU/XM Modulator is not able to process the stereo sound quality and what you are hearing through the HU is MONO output.
HD radio is one consideration, yes. Soon all of your favorite stations will have multiple channels to choose from for free, with text scrolling just like your satellite radio or RDS signal does now.
Internet radio is also a very real possibility as well. When (not if) internet comes to cars in the next 5 years or so, internet radio will be able to stream over your car's radio in non-highly-compressed format. Both HD and internet radio will be free, so yes I see XM and Sirius being obsolete unless they drastically change things soon....
I think it will be a giant upswing in subscribers for a year or two, followed by a big falloff....
No chance. Internet radio in your car? And you think satellite radio is compressed. Multicasting from terestrial radio stations for "free". Come on it's not really "free" is it......... I know the main reason I have XM is to not have to listen to 20 min of commercials every hour.
What needs to be "drastically" change by XM and Sirius?
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