Sirius listening on vintage radio

[fifties]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

If that transmitter was being fed by Sirius or an MP3 player, some of that wobbly whiney wishy washy sound may be due to overly compressed digital audio. I had a rental car with Sirius satellite radio, and though Howard Stern sounded fine, all music channels on Sirius sounded like crap. It was a Ford Focus, so maybe it was a crappy decoder. But if all possible decoders sound that way, I won't subscribe to Sirius. XM didn't seem to have this problem in another rental car I had years ago.

Given that they are now one company, you won't be able to differentiate, lol.

Actually, I've never really had a problem with the audio quality on any of my Sirius receivers. Could be there was an audio problem with the sound system of that rental car you hired...