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I don't watch TV at all. My radio gets turned on a 5 minutes at the top of the hour to catch the news. The local country stations play lots of ads with shouting deliveries aimed at the under 100 IQ set. I'm sure you've heard the car dealers yapping about how they will pay off your current car loan no matter how much you owe. How can you hope to keep up on the good current country hits in that kind of setting? I haven't been particularly pleased with the country music offering on XM either. None of my XM gear is installed into the car yet. It's not too late to peddle it to someone who might actually enjoy it.

The local country stations play lots of ads with shouting deliveries aimed at the under 100 IQ set.

To my ears, it sounds like they are aimed at enlarging the under-100 IQ set.

Sure I understand.

I went to XM originally for the jazz and classical because even though I can get 3 PBS and Temple Jazz (WRTI, it's a real good jazz/classical public station from Temple U. in Philly) I got tired of the liberal NPR news bias and EVEN some of the jazz DJ's late at night piled on Bush. I don't need that crap especially when they want my coin to survive. Anyway the concerts, XM just did Bonnaroo and Telluride and some of the other stations like Frank's Place and On the Rocks just cinched it.

I'm a bit of an audiophile within my budget and even though XM sound isn't quite CD quality but maybe equal to good FM I actually find myself listening to the music again rather than worrying if the system sounds right and what tweaks I can apply when playing expensive SACD's and DVD-A's.