Directv music channel versus AM/FM Tuner ?

Audiofeil - You are absolutely correct. Not even close. But, how could they be? Compressed and crowded with all the other profitable and commercial video feeds. And comparing them to the Mac tuners is unfair! When people are over to my house and they don't know the difference between Redbook (the magazine) and Redbook (CDs), it works great!! The people who know ask to go into the music room and really listen. Then, again, XM has the Blacklight Room and For headphones only on Deep tracks. You can bring out your incense, your blacklight and your bong, just for old times sake.

When my wife haa a bunco party, a dinner club get-together, or a purse party she asks me to put on the Sinatra channel. I think when it is a good song, it doesn't much matter what the source is.

I have two Scott tuners and they are light years ahead of any music channels.

My own first choice is my music library with over 4,000 songs, set to random play. Next comes streaming audio using my Slimdevices Transporter and then I will sometimes play music from Dish Network for convenience, as with dinner.

No tuners for me. As some others have said, I use the DTV XM Sat stuff for background music when I'm doing stuff around the house. Good for syncing upstairs/downstairs systems.