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Date:         Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:05:25 -0400
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
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From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: free satelite radio?
Comments: To: Kevin Barry <krbarry@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
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Kevin Barry wrote:
>  From what I have personally heard XM's sound quality is far and away
> superior to Sirius.  Of course, in this age of MP3 that seems not to matter
> to a whole lot of people.  that said, XM is still not great sounding.  It
> is somewhat better than FM quality but far below CD.


I've had the same reaction to digital satellite TV.  The potential for
high quality is there, but greed gets in the way and they ratchet up the
compression so they can squeeze more feeds onto the same satellite.
Pretty soon you have compression artifacts everywhere.




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David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si
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