Recent satellite radio troubles?
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Now there's something you don't read, or expect to read, in any sentence coming from Unhingd; ignorance.
I had no expectations [re] the sound system as the car itself FAR outweighed any audio consideration, much as I love music. I (only) knew the name Meridian - if we're dropping names, I'm a fan of Rotel, California Audio Labs, Snell, Stax (Electrostatic Headphones), among others - and, by default, expected the sound to be fabulous. It is...coming from the exhausts.
P.S. proof that just because it says Meridian, or Michelin, doesn't mean it's great.
I had no expectations [re] the sound system as the car itself FAR outweighed any audio consideration, much as I love music. I (only) knew the name Meridian - if we're dropping names, I'm a fan of Rotel, California Audio Labs, Snell, Stax (Electrostatic Headphones), among others - and, by default, expected the sound to be fabulous. It is...coming from the exhausts.
P.S. proof that just because it says Meridian, or Michelin, doesn't mean it's great.
Last edited by RickyJay52; Sep 26, 2017 at 08:47 PM.
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Ditto on cancelling sirius - trial is up in a couple of weeks and did not renew. Satellite sounds horrible in the f-type (sounds better in my ford Escape). The F type sound system is second rate at best but satellite sounds especially horrible.
Same complaint from me about Sirius/XM in the F-type. It’s the grinding audible artifacts you get from highly compressed/low data rate audio streams and it literally makes it hard to listen to the music. However, I’m also pretty sure I hear variability in the sound quality depending on the time of day and/or the channel. And even though the F-type usually sounds much crappier than in my spouse’s Cadillac CTS wagon, I hear some variability of sound quality in the CTS as well. Which makes me think that both Sirius/XM and Jaguar/Meridian is at fault.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
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Same complaint from me about Sirius/XM in the F-type. It’s the grinding audible artifacts you get from highly compressed/low data rate audio streams and it literally makes it hard to listen to the music. However, I’m also pretty sure I hear variability in the sound quality depending on the time of day and/or the channel. And even though the F-type usually sounds much crappier than in my spouse’s Cadillac CTS wagon, I hear some variability of sound quality in the CTS as well. Which makes me think that both Sirius/XM and Jaguar/Meridian is at fault.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
By the way, about 15 years ago I purchased a lifetime subscription to RollingStone magazine when it was still an over-sized publication on newsprint. Man do I miss those days!
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Same complaint from me about Sirius/XM in the F-type. It’s the grinding audible artifacts you get from highly compressed/low data rate audio streams and it literally makes it hard to listen to the music. However, I’m also pretty sure I hear variability in the sound quality depending on the time of day and/or the channel. And even though the F-type usually sounds much crappier than in my spouse’s Cadillac CTS wagon, I hear some variability of sound quality in the CTS as well. Which makes me think that both Sirius/XM and Jaguar/Meridian is at fault.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
I’m no digital audio engineer, but consider that Sirius/XM is trying to stream 200+ channels over limited bandwidth. Perhaps more or less data rate (bandwidth) is shifted to different channels at different times. That may not account for the bad F-type sound unless this adaptive technique requires some smarts that the Meridian receiver lacks. In any case the Meridian implementation of Sirius/XM is primitive, but I think there may also be something else, namely variability in sound quality of Sirius/XM, happening. Whatever. At its best Sirius/XM quality is waaay short of CD or even a decent FM signal.
That said, I took advantage of short-lived Sirius subscription offer in 2006 offering a “lifetime” subscription for about $330 (fine print: maximum 3 receiver transfers; I’m on my second) so I can’t complain. Too much.
+1 (except for Rolling Stone subcription) Plenty of blame to around on Sat Radio
Nice choice of color, model year, body style and transmission by the way.
