williamk10 wrote:Looks good, how does it sound like from the FM modulator? From my experience with my ipod, it wasn't very good. Sounded like mediocore FM radio at best.
It's pretty decent. The one that came with the XM Commander MT is the
Audiovox FM Direct Adapter (XMFM1). Even on the "higher bitrate" channels like XM 77 & 78 (the classical stations), it's pretty close to MP3-quality. A lot better than the other FM modulators which don't directly tie in between the HU & vehicle antennas.
Although I did notice... after I had my car engine swapped... the OE vehicle AM/FM antenna isn't performing as well as it use to. (Even before installing the XM radio). So I was playing with the antenna harness without the FM modulator hooked up and killed the "12V" power-supply (the blue wire) from the HU which is suppose to drive the antenna's amplifier and it didn't change the reception quality of FM stations at all. Most of the stations in the Seattle area are pretty high output so even with the antenna non-amplified, I still pick up stations with a minor bit of static but they use to come in crystal clear without static before.
I think the amplifier section of the antenna is dead/fried (I measured a decent 12V out of the 'blue wire') so now I'm trying to locate the "base" of the antenna which houses the amplifier to replace to see if it fixes my FM reception.
Cheers,
Eemrek
