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Summary: Great Receiver
Review: Antenna has a long cord and you can mount it if needed. Receiver allows you to store up to 30 pre-set channels. Comes with a cool remote control (large buttons for those of us with big hands), The Window display gives exact time, channel name, song, author, talk host, etc. ALL the info needed beamed direct down from the satellite, no setting required! If you like sports, this is the service for NFL, NBA and NHL. The display has BRIGHT buttons, dial and window. Orange collored buttons and dial, yellow screen. BIG screen to read information beamed from satellite. Whomever you order this for will not be disappointed. Makes a great gift. If you like talk, Sirius is the service for you. There's liberal stations, conservative, truckers, ABC, a gay oriented channel (OutQ) to name just a few talk channels. Plus the music is great CD quality! And a VERY cool radio classics channel that has the old time radio shows (Twilight Zone, Lights Out, Suspece, Box 13, Abbot and Costello, Red Skeleton, etc.) that play 24/7.
Ever listen to the radio and say "hey what's the name of that song?" Well no more doing that with this receiver as it displays the song title and singer! Plus you can hit the memory button and it'll store it for you! And you you can even set it to beep each time your favorite song or show comes on!
If you like sports, there's life NFL games, a LIVE 24/7 NFL talk channel 24/7, NBA, NHL, college, sports byline, English soccer.
And coming soon Howard Stern!
These PNP2 are selling fast! Just check around and you'll see many places are out of them! One of the better ones. It's a bit larger than the PNP3, but if you have large hands/fingers you want this one as anything smaller and you'll be hitting two buttons at once by accident.
Check around, you won't find these prices anywhere for the PNP2.
Sirius almost takes place of having a TV!! What I find very relaxing is sitting back in a darkened room listening to my favorite show and watching the screen of the receiver show the topics being talked about, etc.
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Summary: Audiovox looks like the best Sirius SR receiver
Review: Although I haven't yet quite decided to purchase the Sirius Satellite Radio service, I expect I will, and when I do I expect I will purchase the Audiovox receiver, based on research to date. Thus I'm giving the unit a four rating for expectations slightly above average.When considering the choice between XMSR and Sirius, consumers must keep in mind the very different transmission technologies between the two. XMSR uses two geosynchronous satellites, which always appear to be at the same place in the sky over any spot on earth. Thus, once one places an antenna so that it works all right, in almost every case it will keep on working indefinitely. Sirius, by contrast, uses several satellites in lower earth orbit, and these appear to move across the sky. So, even when some antenna configuration is initially working, the signal may fade and reception may fail because of the Sirius satellites' changing positions in the sky. For those interested in news programs, both services offer BBC, however only Sirius offers NPR. But to clear up some of the oblique mentions I've noticed in other reviews, the NPR service Sirius offers does not include either All Things Considered or Morning Edition, NPR's two most popular programs by far. Many other popular shows are missing, which is also the case with Sirius' PRI offering. Of course, XM offers no NPR or PRI programming at all. Also, the BBC programming differs substantially between XMSR and Sirius. XMSR provides the standard BBC World Service feed, very similar to what one hears on short wave radio. Sirius provides the BBC news feed, which cuts out some of the BBC's non-news programs in favor of more frequent editions of the news shows. I'm not sure which I'd actually prefer, each has advantages. Finally, a reviewer below mentioned an intent to purchase Sony's XM Satellite Radio receiver. I strongly recommend not purchasing this unit, even at the seemingly amazing low prices one can find for it. I purchased it almost as soon as XMSR started, and I hated it the whole time. It was buggy, it always was screwing up one way or another. Also, its LCD display was invisible for most practical purposes, and its ergonomics were awful. Sony refused all my efforts to get them to deal with these problems while the unit was still in warranty, it was one perpetual stonewall and runaround. Finally, just weeks after my Sony unit went out of warranty, it failed completely. By then Sony wouldn't even discuss repairing it, unless I agreed in advance to pay for the discussion by the minute on a 1-900- phone line! Sony obviously has no real intent to support this extremely poor product of theirs, and they don't seem to be serious about XM Satellite Radio. I am now very reluctant to purchase any Sony product again as a result of this very bad behavior of theirs. So I threw out my useless Sony XMSR receiver and replaced it with the Delphi unit, which is absolutely wonderful, superior to the Sony unit in every way, and by far. I will be delighted if the Audiovox Sirius SR receiver is even almost as good as my excellent Delphi XMSR receiver.
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Summary: lowish-fidelity and annoying commercials
Review: Compared to the little Sony XM radio that I tried, this Audiovox product is superior in that it doesn't have a loud cooling fan. I also like the "browse by category" feature. Sirius and XM both claim to have commercial-free classical music stations. Yet they both interrupt the music with station identification messages and little "house ads" that are annoying if you're using the machine at home. Sirius isn't quite as bad as XM in this respect but it is not all music all the time like the music stations that come with digital cable TV. Sound quality is rather muddy and noticeably worse than the standard FM radio stations that I play through the same amp and speakers. With my desktop XM radio here in the Boston area I had a signal available continuously. The Audiovox/Sirius seems to suffer 1-3 second dropouts every 5-10 minutes. The "what's playing" LCD display shows "Sirius" rather than a music title when they are doing one of their annoying announcements or ads. Some company should make a player that goes mute when this is happening...
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Summary: lowish-fidelity and annoying commercials
Review: Compared to the little Sony XM radio that I tried, this Audiovox product is superior in that it doesn't have a loud cooling fan. I also like the "browse by category" feature. Sirius and XM both claim to have commercial-free classical music stations. Yet they both interrupt the music with station identification messages and little "house ads" that are annoying if you're using the machine at home. Sirius isn't quite as bad as XM in this respect but it is not all music all the time like the music stations that come with digital cable TV. Sound quality is rather muddy and noticeably worse than the standard FM radio stations that I play through the same amp and speakers. With my desktop XM radio here in the Boston area I had a signal available continuously. The Audiovox/Sirius seems to suffer 1-3 second dropouts every 5-10 minutes. The "what's playing" LCD display shows "Sirius" rather than a music title when they are doing one of their annoying announcements or ads. Some company should make a player that goes mute when this is happening...
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Summary: Sirius Rocks!
Review: First of all, NONE of the music channels on Sirius have commercials. As far as the $3.00 a month subscription difference between Sirius and XM, just wait. XM is dropping their ads soon and they're going to have to make up that revenue somehow. Guess who's gonna pay for it? XM subscribers, that's who. So, don't get too used to that $9.95/mo XM rate, because it's going up. Anyway, here's what I like about Sirius: crystal clear digital reception, a wide variety of in-genre music streams (16 different streams in the "Rock" category alone) and, starting this year, all the NFL games each week. They already carry the NBA and NHL, so Sirius is a sports fan's dream. I signed up for two years of service and I'm glad I did.
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Summary: ALERT: bogus reviewer
Review: HACK ALERT: "Roy Givens III" ...is obviously an employee of Sirius, all of his 8 reviews are designed to run down XM radio and promote Sirius. What a pitiful, brainlessly-obvious fake. Surely Amazon can do a better job of screening out paid hacks like this, otherwise the credibility of its users' reviews will continue to plummet. Me, I own nor use neither system, just wanted to post this as a heads-up for unsuspecting Amazon users, so I'm giving it 3 stars as a neutral rating.
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Summary: ALERT: bogus reviewer
Review: HACK ALERT: "Roy Givens III" ...is obviously an employee of Sirius, all of his 8 reviews are designed to run down XM radio and promote Sirius. What a pitiful, brainlessly-obvious fake. Surely Amazon can do a better job of screening out paid hacks like this, otherwise the credibility of its users' reviews will continue to plummet. Me, I own nor use neither system, just wanted to post this as a heads-up for unsuspecting Amazon users, so I'm giving it 3 stars as a neutral rating.
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Summary: audiovox is a must have product in my opinion
Review: i bought the audiovox and i have nothing but praise for this product.i also bought the audivox boombox and i've had no problems at all. i took the boombox down to southbeach,fl and i had no problems with the boombox in my hotel or anywhere else. in comparing xmsr to sirius if you like sports then you should definitely consider sirius. sirius is the only satellite radio provider to have the nfl,nba, and nhl. the nfl channel starts this month. sirius music channels have been commercial free from the beginning. the music channels are similar although i like a couple of the channels on sirius better than xmsr. the cost is about the same for the subscription to sirius or xmsr. for myself i did some research before i purchased sirius. i was tired of all the lame music on am/fm thanks to clear channel. well clear channel has a large stake in xmsr. so this is something to consider. in any event whether you buy sirius or xmsr you will have options that you have never had before
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Summary: Audiovox recieiver is a waste of money
Review: I bought the Audiovox receiver. Less than 45 days later the metal antenna connector pins (3) began to snap off. The unit is supposed to be mobile between house and car but the design is so bad that actually moving the unit around damages it quite easily. I returned it to Audiovox ( well within the warranty period). They would require $80.00 to repair. Plus about 6 weeks or more. So I'll be switching to XM radio and probably the Sony receiver. Do not waste your money on the Audiovox.
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Summary: SIR-PNP2 going good for over a year.
Review: I had my doubts about satellite radio, but ultimately fell in love with Sirius and the Audiovox. I use the unit in both the car and home, and have traveled cross country with it with no problems. At home, however, the power supply filtering is poor causing audio dropout on voltage fluctuations, and I have read a lot of complaints about 1 second audio dropouts. It happenes every time someone turns on a light, the furnace starts, the well pump comes on, etc. I placed a 4700 uF electrolytic capacitor across the low voltage (12V) output line from the wall transformer to try to smooth things out. This didn't solve the problem for me. Still working on it. Not a huge issue, but something they should have resolved for me while it was in warranty - and didn't. I love the big, bright display, though it would be nice to have a dimmer for night drives - no big deal. It runs hot, but they say that is normal and not to worry. I'm out of warranty, so they aren't worried:-) I still gave it four stars, because it has been a very good unit for me, minor problems aside. Read the Sirius "Lifetime Subscription" details carefully if you are considering it. "Lifetime" is of the receiver unit, not your own. If it dies after the warranty period, so does your "Lifetime Subscription". Then you start over again. Almost deceptive.
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