Customer Reviews:
 You will need to purchase a receiver separately and it wasn't easy to find January 7, 2008
It was difficult to find the correct receiver. Just a warning! Otherwise, this is the second system I have purchased and I love it. This was a gift for my mother and she loves it too!
 Avoid like the plague December 8, 2007
There's a reason the price is so low. The dealers can't give them away. Apparently, there's an engineering flaw and when you tun on the radio, you'll hear a put-put sound, like a motorboat. This can be drowned out by turning up the volume, but you really don;t want to do that.
Delphi, which is currently in bankruptcy, has virtually no technical support or customer service. When I returned the unit, I received exactly the same one back a few weeks later, untouched and still defective.
What is that noise?!? December 6, 2007
This is a nice little all-inclusive stereo since it plays my XM, CD's, AM/FM, and MP3's ... BUT ... at low volumes, you can hear this low-pitched vibrating/motor sound in the background that is very annoying! So it works great if you want your music loud, but if you want to have it low (as background music when you have people over, etc), skip past this one. The motor noise will drive you and your guests nuts!
I like it October 20, 2007
Take look at the price. I bought this 'cause it was cheap.
The sound is very good. I have not noticed any hum or static. I must have gotten a good one because I have not had any problems with mine. I use it at work in the XM mode with my ROADY XT to listen to background music and talk radio. I do carry it back and forth from work fairly often.
There are detentes to store the antenna that works just fine.
With an inverter plugged into the cigar lighter, it gives me XM in my rental car across the deserts of Nevada when I travel.
I had trouble getting the adapter for Roady to slip-in the first time but Tech support talked me through it. Now just remove the receiver to install in my car instead of removing the adapter as the instructions say.
I have not used it with batteries though a friend said 2 hours was the usable listening time. The remote works for Roady features I use but it does not work for all the features available to the SkyFi.
I came to these reviews to see if "..rechargeable batteries charge in the unit while using AC power? But no one commented on that and I saw the bad reviews and just had to put in my 2 cents.
 Very Pleased August 11, 2007
The Boombox itself is somewhat cumbersome, but for what I'm using it for it's just fine. Using my SkyFi II XM Receiver is easy and I'm extremely pleased. The directions for operating the AM/FM radio were confusing and in some cases wrong but I personally will rarely use that feature.
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