Maybe Sirius sound quality is mediocre, but I have XM. The quality of the audio for music is better than any FM radio that I've ever had. Basically, it's roughly comparable to a CD. I can snip any song (with a Tivo-like feature built into the received) and save it as an mp3 or whatever. So I can see why RIAA is concerned. They do compress the voice channels a lot, but not the music.
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Maybe Sirius sound quality is mediocre, but I have XM. The quality of the audio for music is better than any FM radio that I've ever had. Basically, it's roughly comparable to a CD. I can snip any song (with a Tivo-like feature built into the received) and save it as an mp3 or whatever. So I can see why RIAA is concerned. They do compress the voice channels a lot, but not the music.