[Rob Hood]

OK, I'm up for renewal on my XM subscription, and I've got free Sirius in my VW Jetta for a few more days. Since sampling the Sirius for the last couple of months, I do like their music selection (classic rock and country stations primarily) better than XM. Both carry the same newstalk stations I listen to as well. I do like XM's traffic coverage better than Sirius' for the Phoenix area, however, although IMO neither does a better job of traffic coverage than the local AM/FM stations. Sirius has NASCAR, but since I'm no longer making 7-hour road trips, that's not necessarily a high priority for me. My XM is portable between my truck and Z, but the Jetta is integral to the OE radio and I would rather be portable (which I know I can get with Sirius as well).

So, who has which one and likes/dislikes? Is it a tomay-to/tomah-to issue? Less filling? Tastes great?

[marka]

Howdy,

We have Sirius and have been pretty happy with it overall.

We tried the FM transmitter for a while and it was _useless_ for us on our longer (60 miles each way) commutes since you'd drive into and out of coverage zones. Figure out a way to get it hardwired to your stereo.

Haven't tried XM. If Stern had already been on Sirius when we started with it, we'd have likely gone to XM just to avoid supporting anything he does.

Mark