- Subscription sold separately by SiriusXM.
- Store up to 20 of your favorite channels for one-touch access.
- Pause, rewind and replay live satellite radio plus all your Smart Favorite channels.
- Get alerts so you won't miss any of your favorite artists, songs, games, and scores.
- Access traffic and weather for the city of your choice with the press of a button.
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The Best Radio They’ve Ever Made,
The good:
– It has 20 presets; two banks of 10. I’ve found that to be more than enough.
– Screen is bright, easy to read, and organized.
– TuneStart. This alone is worth the purchase. After the radio has been running for a few minutes, whenever I tune to a station in my presets, it starts at the beginning of the song. It makes scanning around for music a far more enjoyable experience. You’ll never again find a song you want to hear and only be able to catch the last 30 seconds.
– TuneMix. Start this mode and your radio will play one complete song from a random preset. After the song ends, it’ll change to another channel and play another complete song there. It works with most music channels and it’s an easy way to listen to a mix of all your presets. The best part of TuneMix is the ability to skip a song you don’t want to hear and simply jump to the next one.
– Supports the Xtra/2.0 channels that only the newest XM radios can tune to. These channels have far better sound quality than the regular 1.0 channels.
The bad:
– If you’re an audiophile, XM may frustrate you. The standard 1.0 channels often sound compressed. The 2.0 channels sound much better, however.
– Plug and play radio. The plus is that you can install it yourself. The downside is that since you’re doing it yourself, it won’t be as clean of an install as if the receiver was built into your car. Doesn’t bother me, but I could see some people wanting something more integrated.
– FM Modulation. The FM transmitter can be weak. The signal is further degraded if you have multiple devices plugged into other outlets in your car (e.g. my iPhone charger). Luckily there is also an option for a direct connection via an AUX port.
Overall:
This is a fantastic radio. There’s a few shortcomings but they aren’t the fault of the radio itself. If you want SiriusXM, this is the radio to choose.
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So far so good,
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Onyx Plus makes SiriusXM better!,
I have this aftermarket unit, and I’m blown away. The unit records all 10 of your presets (or maybe 20?) so that when you switch channels, it plays from the beginning of the song. Unlike FM or the «built-in Sirius radio» in my other car where you are just listening in real-time. This feature is handy for mulitple reasons. It is nice to hear everything from the beginning, just as if I was using an MP3 player and was just fast-forwarding to the next song. Instead I’m just switching stations and listening from the beginning.
Added bonus? If you are driving through a tunnel, it is likely you’ll have some buffer of audio to listen to while sitting in traffic with no line-of-sight to the satellite.
Another great feature? Song and artist alert! Nearly any song by Electric Light Orchestra can put me in a good mood. Yet, I don’t always want to listen in on 70s on 7 or Classic Vinyl. I set the artist alert and any time ELO comes on, I hit one button on the unit and it just tunes right to that station.
And what is even better? The artist alert works across stations outside of my presets. Apparently the unit scans the entire SiriusXM bandwidth and captures the Artist/Song information and checks it against my alerts.
The only con of the system is that I installed it myself. Which isn’t really a fault of the unit. I could have paid a professional to run the wiring. But even someone that was not comfortable with installing it, it took about 20-30 minutes. I just managed to run the cabling along the footboards/carpet of the car and affixed it with some tape. 6 months later, it is holding up fine.
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