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For clarity's sake...is this exclusivity as in "XM and not Sirius", or "XM, only XM, and not even regular AM radio anymore"?

I got the promo email, and bear in mind that if you get fed up with XM within the 3 month commitment that goes with it, the penalty for stopping their service is not only more than the "discount" on the proprietary electronics, but also more than two month's service you may not want to listen to.

Why wouldn't you keep them? Because there is a terrible audio level disparity on talk channels on XM which will hurt your ears with their significantly louder content if you have it turned up to where you can listen to Janeane and Sam at a conversational level.

And if your complain about that to XM, they will not only refuse to do anything about it, but will meet your complaint with hostility and contempt.

They'll try to tell you that doing evening things out is impossible, even though Sirius does so seamlessly, and I have been called back by a support guy who wanted to argue about that with me before. For pushing the issue, I've also been called at work on my employer's business phone so they could tell me that XM had no control over the situation because it's being done in XM's studio by XM's employees.

Having bought XM for Air America, I recommend the stream. And I'm glad I bought it before AAR's promotional "offer" because I can cancel at the end of my one month and just stream AAR off the internet. That XM radio can rot in the top of my closet before I would pass it on to another potential customer of XM.