Delphi Sa 10034 Skyfi Cd Audio System

The mere thought of a combination satellite radio/cd/radio boombox delights the ears. I needed a CD player/radio AND wanted to be able to listen to my XM radio, so I gave this boombox a try. What a disappointment. The main problem is the background noise on the XM radio. The faint high-pitched hum only occurs when listening to the XML radio. The CD player and radio sound fine, however, CDs skip and sometimes hesitate to play. Removing the XM radio takes some practice. You snap the unit into the adapter, which is fine, but to remove it, you have to push on the radio until the unit slides forward. That was my experience.

If you don't already own a Delphi XM radio, consider the Audiophase satellite radio Skybox with AM/FM/CD/MP3 player. Or you could add a receiver to an XM radio family plan,.

Pros:

Radio and cd player fidelity

Intuitive buttons

Cons:

Background noise

Skipping CDs

Awkward way to insert and remove XM radio

Garish design

When I hooked up my SkyFi radio in this device and turned on the unit, what I heard was a constant low frequency oscillating sound the best I can describe it is a "motorboat" noise. I heard the satellite radio, but during quiet passages especially on talk shows and interviews/comments on radio channels it was extremely annoying. So, I tried muting the sound and the noise continued unabated at the same volume. You could mask it by turning up the volume, but on some jazz, classical, and talk channels it was always there, annoyingly so.

I tried using headphones, thinking it was a speaker problem, but it was still there. Then, I figured it might be a bad power supply and tried batteries annoying background sound was still there. So this item is going back it's a real shame because it's a nice device, but fails miserably in it's intended purpose (at least for me) and that is making satellite radio portable.

I tried AM and FM radio and the performance is surprisingly good. But, the manual is completely wrong as to how to store presets for these modes. The manual says that in order to choose what preset number under which to store the station you should hit the "tune" button. In fact, you hit the "seek" button. Until I stumbled on this, I was going crazy trying to get the manual's instructions to work on my device. Also, the "Menu" button on the remote control does NOT put the satellite SkyFi into menu mode as the instructions say it should. As it turns out I found about a half dozen places where the manual is dead wrong.

I did not try the device with playing a CD audio or mp3. When I realized the device was useless to me for playing satellite radio, I gave up and decided to use my SkyFi home kit with cheap powered speakers.

A real shame this had the promise of being a really nice device. By the way, Delphi "tech support" never responded to my inquiries. I understand by looking at other reviews that this is not unusual.

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This is a great idea and design, the remote allows you to navigate through songs before changing channels. XM is awesome!!! The only negative of this product unfortunately is the sound that is pumped out of the speakers. The speakers output sound that sounds like a $25 dollar boombox rather than the $200 system it is. If you are using this as a stand alone boombox I do not think this is worth the money. I bought this system for my business office where I am constrained for space. So this system allows me XM radio and a CD player without taking up much space. I have a computer speaker system setup so the saving grace of this system is that it has a headphone jack so I plug my speakers into the headphone jack and I have stereo quality pumping XM/CD's all day !! Problem Solved !!!

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Wonderful product. Just about the best XM SkyFI accessory I have ever had. Extremely durable, and rugged construction. Not much on looks, but is just about the best product of it's type I have ever owned.

Unabashed plug: I am a blind person. I attend a school out here in Rancho Mirage called the Braille Institute. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned XM radio to about 150 of my fellow students. Just this week, about 70 of them told me that they had got themselves a SkyFI radio, and told me that XM radio was the best thing ever to enter thier lives.

Maybe XM should hire me as a marketer... :)

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Great system! Great sound! Very easy to use. I love the flip design and controls. Plays CDs very well and AM/FM sensitivity is great.

I have the earlier XM Delph boombox but was always yearning to hear CDs and FM stations at times. This solves the problem.

Thinking of getting another one.

Very much recommended.