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We have two cars w/Sirius in both
Need to cancel in mine because in our home area I can get good local FM like PBS station or other music I like...not too much advertising...
But we travel to FL often and need the Sirius connection for decent music
We don't have music on our phones...not our thing--
And the area of Fl we stay in has the worst music stations FM or AM --
Way too much advertising and just choices we don't care for...
I'm just like you. I'd pay twice what they want just to avoid all the commercials.
About 15 years ago I had a Sirius Tuner installed in each of my vehicles plus a couple of Home Tuners for my home entertainment.
A Lifetime Membership for my pick-up plus $5 for each additional tuner was a bargain for unlimited music of my choice with NO COMMERCIALS. After a few years and the merger with XM . . . it was a rapid decline of both quality and price. Commercials and DJ Chit-Chat became about as bad as FM Radio plus the price of the additional tuners escalated to about 10 bucks each.
Since Sirius opted not to honor the original contract which guaranteed the original price due to my lifetime membership, I dropped the second vehicle tuner plus the Home Tuners and purchased two Grace Internet receivers for my home. Pandora Radio is far superior for great music with interruptions at an absolute minimum.
After about ten years I can honestly state that I do not miss SiriusXM one bit and would drop it in my Pick-Up if not for the Lifetime Membership.
While I still play the renewal game every 5-6 months, I'm tiring of it as I did when dealing with the cable renewal people...who I no longer miss after waving goodbye when their service shuffles, pricing and attitudes got offensive ...and better alternatives arrived.
Now for music, I often prefer Pandora or occasionally stations from IHeart Radio (music/news/talk) bluetoothed through the car system. I even have some fav tunes on the "radio drive" and portable memory. The biggest 'advantage' I find for Sirius is it's easier to quickly tune/change the car radio along with using local stations...and of course longer distance travel.
New systems and technology keep adding better/cheaper options. This should keep Sirius and competitors from getting too pricey or annoying.
I enjoy the service but I hate that I always have to call near the end of my subscription and threaten to cancel in order to get a better deal.
I usually end up talking to "Bob" in India and I have to ask him to repeat himself a few times in order to understand what he is saying. That ordeal takes up my time. I hate it!
They must have enough rubes who lazily renew at full price or they wouldn't have that crappy business model.
I'm on the $25 for 5 months plan. Once the plan is about to expire, i call in saying that I'm going to cancel and then they renew the plan. Been doing this for 4 years.The older plan used to be $30 for 6 months.
My sound quality is outstanding....music and talk. That's one of the reasons it would be hard to let this go.
But I've read other comments like yours and I wonder if it has to do with the kind of receiver you have.
We have factory head units in both our cars, one with an XM receiver and the other with a Sirius receiver.
I can listen to the same program on terrestrial ESPN and on satellite ESPN, and the satellite broadcast is always of a much lower quality. I read somewhere that SiriusXM broadcasts at a lower quality on purpose, mostly due to bandwidth concerns. Basically, if they improved the sound quality, they couldn't offer as many stations.
We have factory head units in both our cars, one with an XM receiver and the other with a Sirius receiver.
I can listen to the same program on terrestrial ESPN and on satellite ESPN, and the satellite broadcast is always of a much lower quality. I read somewhere that SiriusXM broadcasts at a lower quality on purpose, mostly due to bandwidth concerns. Basically, if they improved the sound quality, they couldn't offer as many stations.
Have no comment on any of that. All I can tell you is that my fidelity is so good that I'm hearing diction and syllables that I've never heard before in songs that I've listened to for 50 years or more. Excellent high frequency response and excellent bass as well.
This is, by far, the best audio system I've ever had in a car and my Sirius XM sound is outstanding.
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My sound quality is outstanding....music and talk. That's one of the reasons it would be hard to let this go.
