tfitz777

Hi my s600 (2007)has sirius xm... however i do not have all the channels does anyone know how i can get the rest of them or do i need to call sirius xm??

serie1926

You can call or go online to their website.

MJ50

moved to W221 forum...

DaveW68

It's likely that you actually do have all of the channels. But you're likely just seeing what has been pre-set by the previous owner. If you have more than just the preview channel, then you have all of them available.

konigstiger

Depending on satellite receiver, it may not be possible to receive additional channels. Bulletin lists MY08-09 221.176 (s600) receiver as able to receive additional channels. Replacing receiver to current part 2168203589 (generation 3) + dealer installed Telematics update may be required. In accordance to bulletin, associated software update should be free.

Receiver cost new, check here http://huskerparts.com/partlocator/i...?siteid=215771 & http://www.oediscountparts.com/partl...?siteid=215242

alx

I wonder why people even bother with satellite radio. At least for music it is absolute wretched garbage sound quality- wise. Most of the channels sound like 56bit streams- flat sounding, wooshing trebles... Quite pathetic...

tfitz777

Thanks I will look into it

DaveW68

Not true with mine. It sounds exactly like a CD or FM radio.

The biggest downfall I see is the HK system being too strong in the mid-range which drowns out the highs and lows.

mnje350

It sux in ever car i have listened to it in. Fine if you only want the talk radio. Everything else is garbage like Alx said.

Frizbeez

I have had it in my 2005 W220 and now in my 2012 W221. It was pretty suck in the W220, but in the W221 it has a much better reception and sound quality to my ear

DaveW68

The only thing that sounds poor to me are the sports radio channels. Most of the time they sound like they are talking in a tunnel. Almost all of the music channels sound great to my non-Julliard trained ears, and has with every car I've had with Sirius in. I just wish Cousin Brucie on the 60's channel would just STFU already and play some music.

Awrryan

Because regular radio is awful notwithstanding any sound quality issues. I'm talking about the music and the shows, not the sound quality. Keep in mind, we are talking about music in a car, not an audiophile room in a home.

Mike5215

The amount of compression Sirius/XM has to use to offer so many stations being beamed down from outerspace results in some pretty crappy sounding stations. They do alot bandwidth based on the station. A talk radio station or a sports station gets very heavy compression because quality isn't much of an issue, and the stream size itself is very small.

A popular hits station that's not commercial-free gets relatively more bandwidth (less compression) but to me they all sound like a re-recording of a song made in a subway tunnel by drunk musicians.

I've experimented with lossless CD rips (1411kbs/16 bit-depth), lossless Hi Res tracks using an external portable Hi Res player (4608kbs/24-bit depth), local 256kb AAC files on my IPhone via the Apple internal player, and via a 3rd party player.

The best sounding audio in the car I've gotten was with the 256kb AAC tracks played through the 3rd party Elephant Candy EQ app where I could apply some compensating EQ to the midrange and add in some bottom, but for convenience and for streaming ITunes Radio I tend to just use the internal player and the internal EQ presets. Granted I've replaced most of the Harman/Kardon speakers in my S so your results may vary.