I'm curious how the XM radio sounds on the bike. My IPod sounds good, the radio reception is dismal as best. Does the XM fade in and out like the radio reception ?
If you pay for Pandora (I think it's like $2/month) you wont get any ads. I do have problems with pandora where the cell signal is kinda weak, which in my area is pretty much where all the fun places to ride are!And anyone who says "Pandora has too many ads" hasn't listened to XM in a while. )
Unfortunately it won't work. Actually, the Vaquero iPod input is analog (speaking of analog vs digital). Apples 30-pin dock connector is more than just a USB connection. It carries pins for USB, FireWire, AND stereo analog audio. Think of it like taking RCA jacks and a USB cable and combining them onto one connector. When the iPod was launched 15 years ago, it was far cheaper to build iPod docks that just controlled the iPod digitally but had the iPod play the digital media files and just play it through the speakers; than for them to render the files themselves. It's a very outdated Standard and even Apple doesn't still use it, but the lovely engineers at Kawasaki thought it'd just be perfect. So the only thing that will work is an Apple device. Modern ones will work with Apple's official 30-pin to lightning adapter, because it contains a 'chip' inside it that renders the digital audio into that analog signal the Vaquero/Voyager needs. If you don't stream music, old iPods are all over eBay cheap.wonder if anybody makes a USB/IPOD connection for the vaquero maybe buy the IPOD cable and a adapter from over to USB, where I could use either or.
did I word that right HHMM!
That's what Romans was referring to concerning bitrate. But the signal level of the outputs of the xm device can affect the output on the receiver side too if it's a cheap unit. If your AM/FM/Receiver has built in XM tuner, you won't notice as much of the volume output difference as with an external unit, but you WILL notice a difference.I had the XM module on my Road Glide and I Loved listening to the same stations across the country and back. My issue was that input was low. Meaning that I had to turn up the volume higher versus the radio or CD.