SXM is famous for caving and giving super low rates if you threaten to leave. Call them and ask for the Retention Department and ask them what they can do to keep you. I've heard of people getting rates as low as $5/mo.
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And nothing of value was lost. SiriusXM is bad... I mean appreciably worse than most other sources. You've got to pipe it through a bunch of filters to make it seem halfway decent and a quick look at a spectrum analysis of anything coming through Sirius shows a crunchy, grindy, peaky mess of crap. Their encoding scheme is similar to Apple's AAC and depending on the station and the quality of the reception can be anywhere between 64kbit/s and 128kbit/s. Yes, that's right; it maxes at 128kbits/s... the same bitrate I listened to on my Diamond Rio years before the iPod was a thing (while I will grant you the encoding of Sirius is much better than MP3... but it's still really bad).
I don't actually think the feed to our cars is all that bad, but the problem with SiriusXM in general is the the higher the quality of your sound system, the worse it sounds because it tends to accentuate the "nuances" of compressed music feeds. That was a common problem from day 1 with audiophiles and SXM. If you pump it through a bunch of filters like the classic BOSE filter (no highs, no lows; it must be Bose) then you'll actually get a sort of respectable sound out of it, but it's muddied by lack of nuance and lack of high-end clarity when you really listen to it. I actually think the system in our cars is actually too good to sound good with SiriusXM.
And Silverado? Yeah, GM is notorious for having their audio feeds filtered to hell and back. It's only thanks to Android Auto and Carplay basically bypassing a lot of their input filters that modern GM systems sound halfway decent.
Right now, I'm just happy as a clam with my Carlinkit AI box (since I'm an Android phone user) running PlexAmp to pull media from my Plex media servers at home filled only with the highest quality rips of my own music library... heck a lot of them are FLAC (lossless audio). Sounds dynamite in my car, even when sitting at a charging station and rocking out
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