i was thinking of adding a polk audio xrt-12 tuner to my system. how does the sound quality of this model compare with cd quality? anyone have one?

Gooomz -- We have had the Polk XRT-12 for over a year now, running through a 990/755 set-up to DefTech speakers. My wife and I agree the sound quality generally is very high, but perhaps not full CD quality. This applies to the music channels; certainly highly compressed voice channels (such as weather/traffic stations) are noticeably inferior. The other issue is location of the antenna. In our case, sometimes the signal drops -- not a deal-breaker by any means.

We really loved XM at first, but then it made some station changes and eliminated our favorite station (a Latin jazz one called Luna). Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply. I was kind of on the ropes with either xm or sirius, but i think i will choose xm because of the quality of the polk receiver. From what I heard,i think at least for my presonnal preference, I like Sirius music programming better then xm, but Sirius doesn't offer a audiophile tuner like the one from Polk. Thanks for the reply.