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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
Sirius has the better music programming but it sounds just one step above AM radio quality wise. I don't get it. Why does satellite radio signal quality suck? It's digital after all, there shouldn't be those problems.
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Sirius has an issue with their compression algorithms, what they use to compress, encode, and send the music data to the satellite. It results in a slightly lower quality sound than XM, but they're working on it and I expect it to be solved sometime next year.
As for sat rad sound quality in general, you need to understand that because the format is new, the recievers that are capable of playing Sirius and XM (the radios) are junk. Just now we're finally seeing high-end radios come to market in time for X-mas, with better materials, that improve the quality. As it is currently, it's equivalent to FM radio, which for me is fine. Luckily for more discerning audiophiles it only gets better from here as the equipment improves and the compression technique is refined.