Agreed that the sound quality of siriusXM is noticeably hollow and not good at all.
But since radio stations around here (and most of the USA now) pretty much suck it is the best worst option for the car. Plus you do get some interesting channels like the classic radio hour, news stations, comedy, and of course the themed music channels.

Yeah, I'm not really an audiophile. And along the lines of what Tom was saying...In the real world even music that is on uncompressed formats like vinyl and cds are still post process edited and mastered which involves compression and EQ and all kinds of other processing like exciters, limiters, maximizers, etc. My personal peeve is with pitch correction (and auto tune). Even singers who don't need it are getting pitch corrected in post production, and they may not even know it. It has become a corporate standard thing.
Unless you are attending a live performance that "hear it as it was played concept" just doesn't work.

So, to me a good stereo system that is running a tube amp can sound really good and add a sweetness to the music that makes it really enjoyable to listen to. I have a cheap tube stereo now in a bedroom, but my main system is all solid state and uses old Crown PA power amps and a Mackie mixer. Not much audiophile about that, but it sounds good to me.

Anyway, this thread was primarily about guitar amps.
Tube amps rule there.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV


Edited: 04/25/2022 at 04:57 AM by Bamboo