[BC] Satellite Sound

[Kent Winrich, K9EZ]

Robert Orban wrote:

> At 12:15 PM 1/21/2006, you wrote:
>
>> From: "Steve" <shnewman at alaweb.com>
>> Subject: [BC] Satellite Sound
>> To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>> Message-ID: <000c01c61eb2$8a400060$7402a8c0 at wildblue.com>
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>> Something I wanted to point out for sometime. I have Dish Network out 
>> here. (my Internet is 2-way satellite from Wildblue). We'll never 
>> have cable or DSL where I live BUT that's fine. I, like Beethoven and 
>> many other composers, like the peace and quiet of the countryside. 
>> (no, I'm not a composer)
>>
>> To my point. I get the Sirius channels as part of the package. They 
>> throw that in me thinks. I crank it up on the big system and it 
>> sounds GREAT. Now, I don't know where Dish network is getting their 
>> feed. It might be from a DA fed by the Orban units for all I know. No 
>> artifacts. Very nice, quiet, clean audio. Sounds very rich and 
>> balanced. (this sounds like a commercial for coffee) BTW, I'm talking 
>> about the Classical channels where you would really hear the crap 
>> when put to the test of larger audio systems. Now, I've not heard XM 
>> at all so I can't comment.
>
>
> I have DirecTV, which just lit up about 70 of the XM channels, 
> replacing DirecTV's earlier jukebox music service. I don't know what 
> path they are using to get them from XM's studios and how much they 
> are recompressing them (probably with MP2, because I believe that is 
> the only audio codec available in the current DirecTV boxes), but they 
> sound like the wrath of s**t on my high resolution living room system 
> (Levinson amps and Duntech Sovereign speakers).
>
> Maybe I should take another look at DISH. However, the problem with 
> both satellite services is that they are compromising the resolution 
> of their HD channels by losing about 1/3 of the horizontal detail. I 
> am seriously thinking about returning to Comcast later this year when 
> they finally have an HD TiVo available. So far, what I am hearing is 
> that the cable companies are not compromising the bandwidth of their 
> HD services. Of course,this could change for the worse at any time.
>
> Bob Orban
>
>
> __________

Bob,

When you tired of your amp and speakers, keep me in mind........ :-D