I’d use Blue Tooth. I have a Spotify subscription and use it in our F150, in our 250 Sundancer, and will eventually in our 33 Sundancer. You create your own play list(s) and if you get premium you’ll have no commercials. I got premium duo for my wife and I and it costs a whopping 10 bucks a month. Great bang for the buck.

 

I use Bluetooth (edit: for SiriusXM) and it works great through the Fusion. If you have good signal, I can’t see why you wouldn’t. However, if I was boating 10 months out of the year and heading to the Bahamas, I’d probably get it.

 

I have SiriusXM in my truck and car. I stream it with the app on a couple of smart TV's at home and use my phone app to stream it through my boat radio using a Bluetooth connection. I listen to it a lot

 

I am thinking about adding SiriusXM to the boat. It's also in my 2 cars, though I do not have a subscription. I asked a buddy who has it if I'd have to have multiple subscriptions. He said No, he has one subscription and uses Bluetooth from his phone for the others (boat, 2nd car, house, etc.).

PO installed this, so I assume all I need is a subscription to use it, or Bluetooth from my phone, with a subscritpion, and not use it: https://www.amazon.com/SIRIUS-SCC1-Connect-Universal-Tuner/dp/B000Q9UFKU?th=1

Also, if I user the existing SIRIUS tuner from the boat (url above) with the subscription should I get a newer tuner, or is the one I have good enough?

What have you done?

Your not going to be happy with the BT sound quality at all. The SiriusXM receiver for the boat will give much better sound quality.

But if you want the streaming, add on internet to your car Sirius account and then you can stream from your phone or other streaming device. Keep in mind there isn't always a cell signal available where we boat. And your phone will need to be relatively close to the head unit to keep streaming.

EDIT: I have both on the boat, the sirius tuner and also stream through a Sonos connect to the Fusion head. The Sonos is connected via TOS link (optical) and streams via starlink inet.

 

Real

Really? The Bluetooth sounds great in everything we use it in. Plus with Spotify premium you don’t need WiFi to play off your stored playlists. And I can go about 30 ft away from the radio while usinG BT.

 

I find that connected to the fusion with USB and setting streaming quality to Maximum gets pretty close in quality to the built in tuner.

 

Shoot, my ears aren't good enough anymore to tell any difference. Been around too many drag cars....

 

I installed a fusion bt adapter to my factory clarion and it works fine for me. I connect to the Sirius on my phone and while I’m no audio expert - I think it sounds great.

 

I am an old lifetime subscriber (was 199 for life back in the day). I Bluetooth to cars and boat with no issues. Sound is way better than local radio station. I think there is a way to download hours of content to curb the lost signal issue.

 

... Sound is way better than local radio station. I think there is a way to download hours of content to curb the lost signal issue.

Yes, BT is way better then that for sure. And yes you can get a lot of content through their app.

 

Ok, so one subscription, use it on one of my head units (boat or 1 of the 2 cars) and use the mobile app for the other - thanks.

 

We use only Bluetooth tied to a JBL Bluetooth receiver tied into the aux port on an older Clarion CMD4. It works great for what we need! My ears are not what they used to be, so I never know the difference if there is any....

Bennett

 

I may take you up on that! We planned on heading south at least once this summer.

 

Cool, let me know.

 

At one time, I had Sirius in four vehicles and on the boat... something like $1,000 a year. Got to where I could'nt stand the DJ's and their stupid comments (don't get me started on Kristine Stone!). Got rid of all Sirius subscriptions except in the wife's car and went to BT streaming Spotifiy. Never turning back.

 

I'm fine with The Highway and Y2Country dj's. That's 90% of my listening. None on Yacht Rock and not much talk on Road Trip.

 

Get one subscription and go back to sirius and get the $5 a month deal for new additions. The deal lasts a year and at the end of the year if they won't renew a the $5 rate cancel just that one and in a few days they will renew it again for $5 as they don't want to lose you.I got 4 extra lines for $5 each, two trucks and two boats.I'm sure everyone can afford extra lines at $5 eack!

 

I only have the one subscription and use bluetooth a lot. But come summer I will probably do this.

 

Is SiriusXM direct to the head unit through an XM tuner going to be higher quality than Bluetooth?

 

As mentioned - Yes a lot better. The difference between Radio and BT.

 

I guess I'm the outlier. I have Sirius in 2 cars and the boat. It's $25 a month total or something like that, so I don't sweat it. I have a Fusion and find that the BT connection is hit and miss, having Sirius just works better.

That being said, I've almost abandoned Sirius for Pandora.

 

I also listen to Pandora as well. The free version, though.

 

I pay for way too many subscriptions - Sirius, Apple Music, Pandora. I don’t know if I could ever get off pandora because I’ve spent years building those stations, we use Apple Music for the on demand stuff and it’s on all family devices, and Sirius is best when I can’t pick something myself. I like Jam On, the dead channel, classic rewind, margaritaville, and no shoes.

Sirius gets the most use on the boat and on the patio during nice weather

 

I pay for way too many subscriptions - Sirius, Apple Music, Pandora. I don’t know if I could ever get off pandora because I’ve spent years building those stations, we use Apple Music for the on demand stuff and it’s on all family devices, and Sirius is best when I can’t pick something myself. I like Jam On, the dead channel, classic rewind, margaritaville, and no shoes.

Sirius gets the most use on the boat and on the patio during nice weather

Man your not lying, many hours invested in grooming Pandora channels. Could not agree more on the rest, except I use Spotify because I am an Android guy.

 

Android guy here as well.

Purchased SiriusSM yesterday, first impression: I have to listen to what they tell me to and why am I paying for all this "non music" stuff? I have Amazon Music that I love because I select the song/music. Sounds like Pandora may be a better option?

 

Purchased SiriusSM yesterday, first impression: I have to listen to what they tell me to and why am I paying for all this "non music" stuff? I have Amazon Music that I love because I select the song/music. Sounds like Pandora may be a better option?

I had XM for years and finally bailed due to all the non-music. Why am I paying monthly when there is as much talk as there is music when I hit rush hour traffic? Their "popular country" station was the absolute worst. 5PM and they'd spend 10 minutes talking to people that would stop into their Nashville studio.

I have Apple Music and Amazon Music. Like 'em both. I enjoy the two times a year XM provides a free week or two of service - it reminds me of why I decided to stop paying for their service

 

Pandora at $6 a month with no commercials, well worth it.

 

We were getting a little OT so I created this thread for us:

http://www.clubsearay.com/index.php...eads/pandora-spotify-siriusxm-amazon-music-etc-which-do-you-use-and-why.111839/

 

I have Sirius in my cars. My subscriptions come with with the internet streaming too. I've tried to use the Sirius app in my car via Bluetooth. It sounds just fine but I find the XM app interface cumbersome to use when driving so I just use my car's radio.

On the boat I have a Fusion radio with bluetooth and stream using the XM app on my phone. We really don't listen to much music, and when we do it's at anchor so there's no concern about being distracted. Mostly it's yacht rock or a baseball game. My kids also have Spotify so we use that sometimes as well.

My point is, I would not invest in a Sirius XM receiver and subscription for my boat. We're in cell range and don't use it enough to pay more.

 

I have Sirius in my cars. My subscriptions come with with the internet streaming too. I've tried to use the Sirius app in my car via Bluetooth. It sounds just fine but I find the XM app interface cumbersome to use when driving so I just use my car's radio.

Streaming XM using apple car play works really well vs trying to work it by the phone itself.

 

I am like you Brad

 

We use a starmate xm receiver with multiple car kits. Just move the same receiver (subscription) to whatever we are traveling in.

 

My SUV is 2009, my weekend driver is 2008. Both came with a head unit that supports SiriusXM. And both are paid for, I refuse to have a car payment. I used the radio ID for my SUV for the subscription since that's the one I drive more often.

 

I always had a stand-alone receiver in the boat and the old truck. New cars both have factory Sirius.

I wound up letting it go 2 years ago and haven’t missed it aside from The Wilkow Majority. If I ever go back it will just be the app