On 5/30/2017 6:04 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 5:46:30 PM UTC-4, True North wrote:
Bill
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"The one switch the Toyota misses on the steering wheel is the radio seek
button. While traveling, have to go to the far side of the radio to seek."


The last week or so has been a free preview time for Sirius XM Radio.
What a treat...I favour the '60s tunes.
No seeking required.

The problem with Sirius and XM is that the sound quality sucks big-time. If you have the base stereo it may not be that noticeable, but with a better quality one the sound is very "flat" with almost no stereo image. It's highly compressed. I dropped my subscription.

MP3's sound far better. I can rip CD's to a high bit-rate MP3 and play them from a memory stick or transfer them to the "jukebox", which is nothing but a hard drive in the car used to store music. Then there's always HD FM, which is even better. The high quality iTunes songs are good, too.



Most of the original recordings from the 60's and 50's aren't exactly
"High Def" anyway, so I don't mind.



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On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 6:31:05 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/30/2017 6:04 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 5:46:30 PM UTC-4, True North wrote:
Bill
- show quoted text -
"The one switch the Toyota misses on the steering wheel is the radio seek
button. While traveling, have to go to the far side of the radio to seek."


The last week or so has been a free preview time for Sirius XM Radio.
What a treat...I favour the '60s tunes.
No seeking required.

The problem with Sirius and XM is that the sound quality sucks big-time.. If you have the base stereo it may not be that noticeable, but with a better quality one the sound is very "flat" with almost no stereo image. It's highly compressed. I dropped my subscription.

MP3's sound far better. I can rip CD's to a high bit-rate MP3 and play them from a memory stick or transfer them to the "jukebox", which is nothing but a hard drive in the car used to store music. Then there's always HD FM, which is even better. The high quality iTunes songs are good, too.



Most of the original recordings from the 60's and 50's aren't exactly
"High Def" anyway, so I don't mind.

That's true. I listen to '70s rock and modern country, so it's a bit more noticeable on the '70s stuff and in your face with any modern music.

On Tue, 30 May 2017 18:30:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Most of the original recordings from the 60's and 50's aren't exactly
"High Def" anyway, so I don't mind.

Exactly Most of the "singles" were mastered to play on the radio, even
up into the 70s/early 80s and unless it was re mastered the quality
was pretty "thin". Some of the LP stuff was a bit better but they
still re mastered what they could for CDs.