Sirius listening on vintage radio

[darklife]

Originally Posted by sidbartos

Both Sirius and XM both use heavy compression.

In a way this can be a good thing though when rebroadcasting it around the house on AM since it would push the little transmitter to full modulation allowing it to be received much farther away. As with large AM radio stations they want to compress their audio to sound "louder" and it does help their range a bit.
Also you won't have to worry about the audio clipping and distorting on the tiny AM transmitter because Sirius already does the job of compression and peak limiting for you
On the other hand there is a lot to be said for audio dynamics. Something that seems to be a lost art today