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The Best Way To Enjoy Satellite Radio In Your Living Room

by Aaron Emerson

One thing you gotta love about radio is NOT hearing the same song over and over and over…

Thanks to companies like Sirius and XM, that became a reality for the first time several years ago. Radio had finally taken that giant leap towards *gasp* diversity, and having satellite radio installed in the car became mandatory for the talk radio and alternative/underground types. Not only does it free you from paying $18 for a CD you were less and less likely to enjoy, it opens your eyes to a ton of new music you’d never heard before. And there was no end to it.

Until you got out of the car.

In the living room, the best solution has always been that channel in the 900’s somewhere with the humorous trivia. That’s fun sometimes, but if thrilling friends and family with crystal clear, commercial-free streaming radio of your favorite news, sports, talk radio and musical boat-floaters is your passion, this product is for you.

polk_audio_xm_radio.jpgThe Polk Audio XRt12 XM Component Tuner is not only the best looking of the home components I’ve seen, it also sounds the best. You don’t even have to take my word on this one (as if you ever did), Polk actually guarantees it. I got a chance to listen to it in the A/V store downtown during a recent Farmer’s Market, and granted, their speakers are set up for a rock concert, but that’s exactly what it sounded like.

After a moment of rocking to Skynyrd’s Freebird, I got a taste of the other channels. remote_large.jpgThe Giants were there, up 4-3 on the cross-state rival Padres. Bloomberg and Disney Radio were there, too (some bubble dance song my daughters love; luckily they weren’t there). Comedy, check. News, check. Very impressive. Only thing missing is the steering wheel.

While looking for some reviews, I had the brilliant insight to check the Polk website and came across the guarantee and the best price I had seen anywhere which even included free shipping. I’m not a salesman, but that’s a pretty good offer. If you’ve listened to satellite radio, you know it’s a pretty good product, as well.

For bringing outdoors, indoors, and doing it with style, my envy reared its ugly head to a level of two green buttons.
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Posted in 2 GEB, Audio, Design on April 12th, 2007

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