Customer Reviews

Delphi SA10081 XM Universal Audio Adapter

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

We got our Delphi Sky-Fi unit over a year ago and intended to use it primarily in the car. Fortunately the car had come equipped with AM-FM radio with a CD & cassette player so we were able to use the Delphi radio + cassette adapter to recieve XM radio without having to buy an all new combo radio.

The cassette adapter got the XM signal to the radio, kind of, but it was too bassy and voices weren't as clear as we would have liked. But the big problem was that some XM stations, like FOX, make a lot of swooshing and whooshing between segments that are WAY LOUDER than the normal broadcast and their "radio only" commercials are much louder than the normal broadcast and you'd have to be messing with the volumn control all the time.

This little "Roadie" FM modulator is a great solution to the problems we had. With the XM signals going into the car radio now as an FM radio signal the radio's auto volumn control circuitry manages the noisey volumn blasts nicely without making things sound flat.

Music and speech are much better than before and there is one less wire to try to hide. We like this unit a lot but there is one drawback. Ours whistles for a few seconds until we back out of the garage and the radio finds the satallite.

I saw mixed reviews concerning wireless modulators, but maybe the unsatisfied customers had bought inferior products. My Delphi adapter has worked well. I wanted to try out the satellite radio system before getting anything permanently installed in my vehicle and this has really helped. It is just a bit bothersome to have to adjust the channel selector while on long trips (as vacant frequencies come and go) but that is a small hassle when compared to the convenience of being able to install my system in any car without having to rewire everything. I highly recommend this product.

It took awhile to find the right universal adapter for a older Roady XM radio~but this was the one~it works great~

For the newer cars with no casette player for the older xm radios this product is the best. Great sound quility and well worth the money.

I'm very pleased with the device I ordered so I can listen to my XM radio
in my new (used) car. It works perfectly, and I received it faster than
I had expected.
This product is hard to find these days but they had it in stock.
Thumbs up all the way around!

I purchased a new vehicle that didn't have a cassette player so I needed something else in which to use my XM Radio. This product is a real disappointment compared to the cassette adapter. Stations continuously fade in-and-out and if you travel long distances you often need to change the radio frequency.

This item is not needed for the SkyFi2 system. That tuner has a built in modulator.