XM Questions for you experts (1 Viewer)

I have decided to go for XM and have a couple of questions. First, I have decided to get the SKYFI2 and would like to hook it up to my home receiver. What is the highest quality hookup? I was thinking maybe using the headphone out with a headphone jack to RCA adapter. Second, I was reading somewhere where someone said that the subscription is tied to the antenna. Is this true? What I was hoping to do was get a home and car kit and use the same receiver in both places, hoping that I would only need one subscription. However, if the subscription is tied to the antenna, I assume this wouldn't work.

Thanks for your help,
Jeff

No, the subscription is tied to the receiver.

As to the audio out, the line-out (headphone to RCA) should sound fine.

Great, thats good news. Thanks for all of the help guys. I am really looking forward to it.

Ron, for the car, I just figured that I would try what you suggested first. It is an OEM unit that doesn't have any aux inputs as far as I know.

Actually, there is a third option. If you have a tape deck in your car, a tape adaptor would be a better option than FM modulation. There is also wired FM modulation, which hooks up to the FM antenna and is of better quality than the built in wireless FM of the SkiFi.

Jason

Thanks Jason, thats interesting. I have a tape deck in the car, but have never used one of those. I assumed the FM modulator would be just as good. I will keep that in mind. How does the wired FM modulation work? Do you have to plug it into the antenna jack on your radio? Can you still use the regular antenna?

You plug the attenna jack into the device, then the device plugs into the antenna. It's essentially a pass-through.