RDX REX

Just picked up my RDX, and I assume all RDX's come w/ XM free for the first 3 months like mine did. I've never considered XM before, however after using it for a day, it's actually pretty cool. Did anyone commit to it after the 3 months and are paying monthly for it now? How much is it a month?
Thanks!!

Madison3

I left XM for about a month, after which they responded with a winback offer of $5 a month on a monthly basis for the first three months, no commitment, no other fees. The fourth month it jumps to $12 a month. I will reconsider XM again at that time.

DNPhotography

i wish we had XM here in Hawaii

Animagix

If you search deeper in all of acurazine, other members have paid winback offers of $77/year. There's no offer code or anything. Just call them up and say "hey I got an offer in the mail for discounted service..." I would find someone with a scanned pic of the coupon to be sure.

RDX REX

Thanks for that info.!!

If anyone reading this thread has that coupon, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Digits

See this thread

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140022

RDX REX

Thank you! I can't believe that works, but if it does it sounds good to me! XM seems worth it for only $6.41 a month!

jbinnyc

okay, i have seen the $77 thread & when mine expires later this month, i am certain that i will get that deal one way or another. but what about prepaying for 2-3 years? what type of deal or rates can you get? frankly, i am fairly certain that i am keeping my RDX for the next 36 months & i would just prefer to pay a couple hundred dollars now & forget about it.

Madison3

XM gives discounts for multi-year contracts, so when you give them a call ask for the lowest per month package.

pvsurfer

And if you want Nav Traffic Reports, that's additional to XM Radio (not sure how how much it costs, but it is an additional charge).

DogPatch

i believe the xm nav traffic for the real time traffic portion of the nav, is $9.95/month.

sasair

nav traffic is only $3.99/month if you also subscribe to XM radio. If you get navtraffic alone with no xm radio then it is 9.95/month

Animagix

rumor has it a merger is in the works between XM and Sirius. I would definitely go for that $500 lifetime deal sirius has.

pvsurfer

sasair, you are a fountain of knowledge.

sgi

Am I the only one who feels like the audio quality of XM is pretty bad?

I mostly use 3 inputs: XM, MP3 CDs (192-256 Kbps VBR) and iPod into Aux. XM has the worst audio of the three by far. It sounds like a poorly encoded MP3 (I'd say 96-128 Kbps) on most music channels.

I did get a TL as a loaner and found the XM quality to be the same, I have never heard other satellite radio service before so don't know what to expect. All I know is that there is no way I'd pay a monthly fee for this.

appzter

It's not what it should be, that's for sure - probably because of compression! What we get for our money is tremondous variety and no commercials. I find FM quality better (can't stand the commercials though, CD's are better yet and nothing comes close to DVD-Audio.

Madison3

That's interesting. One of the reasons why I went back to XM was that the sound quality was significantly better than FM in my neck of the woods.

Animagix

I'm surrounded by an urban setting (eg. lots of tall buildings and shit). When I travel to out to open road I notice significantly better sound quality. I think it sounds better than FM, if it doesn't it SHOULD!

sgi

Found this interesting post on an XM forum. Looks like quality is gone for good.

http://www.xm411.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=25181

rdx4fun

I have to agree with them. When XM first came out it was awesome. Now I have noticed I turn the trebble up to get better sound but it still sucks. When you put in a cdr or dvd and than go back to xm it sounds like going from fm to am.

rwm0005

I have XM at home and the sound quality is great. I had a Alpine tuner in my last vehicle and the XM sound was fantastic. For whatever reason, the XM sound is not good in my RDX. Everything else is great.