Well, maybe, but I can’t fit a tube system and a big Klipschorn into my car. And with the potholes, the record skips a lot when I’m driving ….
I find the sound on Sirius a good deal below optimal, but I grew up listening to a lot of music on my grandmother’s shortwave radio at night, or on AM broadcasts on old car radios. And I still listen to a lot of stuff like that (the shortwave broadcast of Toscanini’s Salzburg Fidelio, for instance, or the Mapleson cylinders). You’re right that Sirius compresses too much, and there’s nothing you can do to fix that, but so did a lot of 78s and even LPs. Playing around with the equalization can turn it from unlistenable to tolerable or more so.
I suspect that for many of us, our reference sound is what we heard in our early teens.
-Lofty
On May 26, 2014, at 12:00 AM, ARSCLIST automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As someone who has listened to tubes pretty their entire life — I find that Sirius is unlistenable. It's shrill — Compressed and tinny. Most stations clearly use compressed digital files and the radios themselves sound like crap. But I guess it's OK if you gew up listening to music on an iPod or smart phone.
> A good Victor 78 from 1929 played through tubes beats it all to hell.
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