2011SELSteelBlue Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Is anyone else experiencing poor quality from the Sirius channels? I have a 2011 SEL with the Sony system, and music from any of the other sources sounds great (CD, MP3 player, USB memory stick, and even FM radio). The Sirius channels all sound very washed out. Some are worse than others, but even the best are just so bad I can't stand listening to it. I'm in the 6 month free trial. Is there anything I can do to make the Sirius channels sound better? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
con_fusion Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Is anyone else experiencing poor quality from the Sirius channels? I have a 2011 SEL with the Sony system, and music from any of the other sources sounds great (CD, MP3 player, USB memory stick, and even FM radio). The Sirius channels all sound very washed out. Some are worse than others, but even the best are just so bad I can't stand listening to it. I'm in the 6 month free trial. Is there anything I can do to make the Sirius channels sound better? Some channels are more compressed than others so they may not sound as good. I listen mostly to the Smooth Jazz - WaterColors channel (71) and it sounds pretty good. I have the Sony sound system in my 2010 SEL also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondaconvert Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Is anyone else experiencing poor quality from the Sirius channels? I have a 2011 SEL with the Sony system, and music from any of the other sources sounds great (CD, MP3 player, USB memory stick, and even FM radio). The Sirius channels all sound very washed out. Some are worse than others, but even the best are just so bad I can't stand listening to it. I'm in the 6 month free trial. Is there anything I can do to make the Sirius channels sound better? There's no solution. Sirius compresses the sound so much that it loses most of its distinctive qualities. Any other source will always sound better. Use it until your subscription runs out. You might decide that the offerings outweigh the poorer quality. Then again you might not. Once you have to pay for it, It is a lot of money for substandard sound. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 It also depends on the source. A lot of the older music wasn't recorded very well (in addition to the compression). I notice this a lot on the 70s channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2011SELSteelBlue Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Thanks to everyone for responding. As a follow up, I contacted Sirius customer service to see if what I was experiencing was a result of being on the 6-month free trial period. Alas, it is not. I am a little taken aback, since I would have expected sound quality to be a selling point for their service. The Sirius customer service person I talked with said that they would escalate my concern to a manager, which I take as their way of saying that I'll never hear from them again. I pretty much told them that I wouldn't be continuing the subscription if this is what I can expect it to sound like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Thanks to everyone for responding. As a follow up, I contacted Sirius customer service to see if what I was experiencing was a result of being on the 6-month free trial period. Alas, it is not. I am a little taken aback, since I would have expected sound quality to be a selling point for their service. The Sirius customer service person I talked with said that they would escalate my concern to a manager, which I take as their way of saying that I'll never hear from them again. I pretty much told them that I wouldn't be continuing the subscription if this is what I can expect it to sound like. Unfortunately today it's all about content and quantity, not necessarily quality. Same thing happened with HDTV (and not just on satellite and cable but even with OTA multicasting SD channels taking bandwidth away from the HD channel). I expect HD Radio to suffer the same fate at some point. People would rather have more channels and choices than better sound quality. So that's what they sell. Hard to blame the providers for giving us what we want. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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