I've had both and I prefer Sirius. Here are some things you can use to help make your decision on the two. If you can't decide, why not get both and be jamming to 300 channels in the car? Okay here's the comparison list:
Music. If you like rare, unheard stuff and B-Sides, you'll like XM better. XM has a larger music library and they tend to delve deep into it. This is the kind of service that the wacky guy at the music store who could name what was on every CD ever made would like. If you like hearing stuff you've never heard before, you'll like XM
If you like listening to the radio and saying hey, I loved that song, hearing songs that are popular, that were once popular, all the hits then you'll be a Sirius person. Like classic rock? Pick Sirius. Eminem? He's got his own channel. So does Elvis. And for the time being so does The Who and The Rolling Stones. For me, this is what made me pick Sirius. I would listen to XM and always be changing the station because it was rare they'd play something I'd like. Sure, I'd discover new music I had never heard before and end up liking, but most of the stuff I heard over there I could tell were B sides and unheard of for a reason. On the flip side of that, since Sirius plays all the hits, you'll end up hearing more repeats, too. It doesn't bother me because I like more than 1 station, so I can just change it and listen to something else!
Sports. If you like baseball or hockey, you'll want XM. If you like basketball, football, soccer or nascar, you'll want Sirius.
Talk radio. If you like Playboy, Maxim, Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, NPR, BBC, you'll want Sirius. If you like Oprah Winfrey or Opie and Anthony, you'll want XM.
Hope this helps a little! Don't forget, both services offer 3 day free trials online. Sign up for them and give them both a good listen. Note that the satellite radio sound quality is better than the online streaming. Just use it for comparing the programming. Note that talk and sports are mostly not available online so this is mostly good for comparing the music programming.
2006-12-20 05:02:42
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answered by Geoff S 6
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i've got had the two XM and Sirius. i will strongly say i like XM extra because of the fact they have extra suitable programmers for there track channels in which you will not hear many music replays. With Sirius they have extra Dj's chatting all day and repeat songs over and over. Thats in simple terms my opinion, I recomend taking a three day trial so which you get a stable feeling of the provider. XM i think of has extra suitable quility radios they're made out of Delphi, AudioVox, and Pioneer. Sirius has all of there radios made by Directed Eletronics. For Sound Quility, Its perplexing for me to tell a difference because of the fact i think of they the two sound the comparable yet on Aug 5th XM upgraded there sound quility so i think of XM has slightly extra suitable sound quility than Sirius, yet returned it relies upon what you have that satellite tv for pc radio hooked as much as so some distance as a radio, if the radio has stable sound quility your satellite tv for pc radio will sound super. the cost is each and all the comparable 12.ninety 5 a month although once you sign in for one million,2,3 or extra years the cost of the month is going all the way down to under 12 funds. once you're a subscriber you may upload extra radios to your account for $6.ninety 9 a month. And once you connect you besides would get a unfastened on line account the place you may hear to your in demand XM or Sirius radio channels on line at paintings or homestead. universal not a important difference, the two companys have your track, activities and different entertainment. Sirius Has Howard, XM has Opie And Anothony. yet i will strongly say XM has extra suitable track channels.
2016-12-30 17:03:15
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answered by Anonymous
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XM, i've been using it for a while now and I love it
2006-12-20 05:07:23
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answered by Anonymous
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