Sirius sound quality

Wondering if anyone else finds the sound quality with Sirius to be less than stellar?

I've installed a fairly "sirius" (couldn't resist) sound system incrementally over the last couple of months, it seems every time I advanced the audio system, Sirius sounded worse.

It is now 50% pathetic.

It's not just tonality or voicing, it's the spacial aspects too.

Hate to say this but sometimes I wonder back to FM for relief.

Anyone know if they are using lossy compression? Sometimes I hear what I can only describe as digital artifacts, what the first CD players sounded like, hardness, glare, spittiness and such. Most of it in the treble registers.

I used to feel pretty smug about snagging a lifetime subscription when it was offered at a fire sale price, now I'm not so sure.

 

Thanks for the feedback (probably a bad choice of words in the audio section).

I'd always used a portable Sirius tuner before but with this system I went with a tuner that interfaces directly with the Kenwood DDX8032 head unit. It's supposed to be as good a connection as a person can get, at least as good as AUX-IN.

I totally agree with skruse, some channels sound pretty good, some are a Wth?

Even within the same channel, a song will sound good one time and not-so-good another time.

I've noticed too that my signal is quick to drop compared to what I'm used to. I mean one freakin' tree being blown past at 50 shouldn't cause a blackout when it never used to. Maybe jackal454 is onto something with the antenna thing. I'll check into that.