[BC] Sirius - XM Merger...

[Rob Meuser]

Burt

It is not the receivers.  XM sounds better than Sirius, they use a 
superior compression technology. This is  not to say that either are 
artifact free. As a few of us have stated in the past, XM has the 
better tech and Sirius the better programming.


Burt I. Weiner wrote:
>I don't know whether it is the systems or the receivers I've had but 
>to my ears XM sounds better than Sirius.  Sirius always seems to be 
>loaded with digital artifacts while XM's system or my receiver seems 
>to do a better job of "sounding" linear.  For my personal listening 
>tastes Sirius had a few things that I miss on XM but the digital 
>artifacts were always annoying, sometimes to the point of turning it off.