SIRIUS Stiletto 2 Portable Satellite Radio with MP3 Player
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Customer Review: Excellent product, I have been waiting three years for this!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this item and I wanted to wait a couple weeks to give my review of the product. I use it everyday and it eliminates all my other mp3 devices.
Here is how a typical day breaks down with the Stiletto 2:
5:00am - work out on treadmill or bike listening to mp3 mixes or sirius through wifi.
7:30am - drive to work, drop the kids off, listen to satellite radio, news or music
8:00am - listen to music all day at work, through mp3 or created playlists; why can't my office get wifi?
12:00am - Walk around downtown listening to satellite radio with the headphone antenna.
4:30pm - Drive home and to pick up the kids, listening to music.
9:30pm - Chill out in bed listening to wifi radio.
Overall, I love this product. Is it expensive? Yes. Are the accessories expensive? Yes. Does it work as advertised? Yes.
There are so many options I like I will highlight a few.
First, I love having the option to listen to the radio through wifi. I think that is awesome.
Second, I like to listen to a lot of different kinds of music and I wouldn't have the patience to search through the 80gb ipod. With sirius, different genres of music are just a click away.
Third, I love that I can walk outside and listen to sirius, a service I have had for two years and haven't been able to take it portable. I go to Missouri football games and I am going to take the Stiletto 2 to the games to listen to the play by play, or to check other games.
Fourth, I love that you can add a micro-sd card. I added a 2gb to expand my music. A bonus feature I discovered is I can play my mp3s in the car now. That was an awesome feature I didn't think about.
I feel the Stiletto 2 is pricey, but for me, it has allowed me to listen to a service I was already paying for in a lot more applications throughout the day!
Customer Review: The Best Sirius Reciever by Far....
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me begin by saying that I've been a Sirius subscriber for close to 7-years. When the Sirius S50 Portable Receiver was released, I was one of the first bunches of people to purchase it. I used the S50 with both the Home Kit and Car Kit. I am proud to say that I loved this product up until the end...when I broke it.
Now for the Stiletto 2:
I am very cautious when it comes to making an electronic purchase. I find myself doing tons of research on the product and reading allot of user reviews. With the Stiletto 2 there are a lot of positive and negative reviews. I found myself having some reservations on making the purchase due to the negative reviews that I was reading. After some hesitation I finally ordered the Stiletto 2 and it turned out to be the best decision that I've made in a while.
The Stiletto 2 is awesome! It has the ability to pick up a satellite signal when you are on the go...and when it can't find a good signal it can utilize a Wi-Fi Spot to get you service. It can pre-record your favorite Sirius music channels and your favorite songs so you always have music. For an additional $20 (approximately) you can add an 8GB memory card to add all of your favorite MP3's to the unit.
I purchased the Home Kit with it and it works flawlessly. I'm glad to see that both the car kit and home kit cost a lot less money than what the kits cost for the S50 when it was released.
So to sum it all up...I highly recommend this product if you are a fan of Sirius Satellite Radio. I believe that a lot of the negative reviews that you will read are a result of people maybe not fully understanding how to operate the unit. In addition there have been a few firmware upgrades that have enhanced the product. This unit has a lot of features so there can be a short learning curve but after you figure it out you will absolutely love it!
Customer Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this for wife for last XMas. Took her a little while to really get into it but she really loves it now. Installed car kit which really makes it handy, it's never low on charge since she uses it almost daily on 45 minute drives to work and back. I use it sometimes also, as do the kids, we all like it a lot. The wifi comes in handy, quite a few places (like some gyms, coffee shops, etc) where we'd have to listed to pre-recorded stuff because sat-reception isn't possible but can still get Sirius via internet. Wife also uses recording features a lot, she really likes that aspect as well. I haven't even used the memory yet, doesn't seem like that much of a point. I have thousands of MP3's but there is just SO much available on Sirius that it just doesn't seem necessary. I would like it if the player was compatible with [...] but hopefully it's just a matter of time. The headphone/antenna is fine with me though I think most people wouldn't like wearing them, but if you're in wi-fi range you can just connect that way anyway and stick with the earphones. Bottom line is that it's a bit of work to get the car kit (or whatever accessories) installed and figured out, along with figuring out all of the players features, but once that's out of the way life is much better!
EDIT: Just wanted to add something after having this for almost two years now (it's 10/29/09). We've since installed a car-kit in our truck that we tow our trailer with so the Sirius is ALWAYS with us on trips. Wife uses it as a portable all the time too. We've had a little glitch here and there over the two years, where the batter had to be pulled out and then it worked fine again, with nothing lost. Other than that, no problems at all. This thing is probably still the best little piece of electronics we own.
Customer Review: Surprised by the reviews. I'm in love with this thing!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm really surprised by the handful of negative reviews on here. I have been a long time Sirius user and have just recently upgraded to the Stiletto 2 after a car break-in led to the loss of my old radio.
Switching to the Stiletto 2 has really changed the way I use Sirius. The DVR like capabilities (rewind, record songs, record shows) has done for my radio what TiVo has done for my television viewing.
Due to recent FCC regulations the FM transmitter has led to signal quality loss when broadcasting from the Stilleto to your car radio but a $30 direct FM adapter solves this problem entirely. When you hear people speak of "reception issues" it has nothing to do with the satellite signal but rather their own broadcast to their radio. This fixes the problem. In most cars you can self install this in a few minutes. In my truck it took a 15 minute audio shop install because I had to get behind the radio.
My daily use of the Stiletto usually starts with the recording of my favorite show before I even wake up. I can then listen, pause, fastforward, etc until I get to work. Then I pop the head phones on and head inside and listen to the rest of the show.
An internal MicroSD card allows you to expand the MP3 player capabilities and can give you iPhone/iTouch/Ipod-Nano like storage.
The MP3 player is suprisingly intuitive (better than my iRiver). Overall I could not go back to a standard radio or even a non-Stiletto radio after a few months with this product.
Customer Review: My iPod is starting to gather dust.
Summary: 5 Stars
Since I have a very basic understanding of satellite technology, I knew I was probably going to get little to no reception if I tried to use this product indoors, so I can't say I was shocked or angry when that turned out to be the case. You can pretty much forget about listening to live radio when using this radio at home, in the office, at the gym, or anywhere with a roof over your head unless you have accessories such as the home kit or the portable boombox, or if you subscribe to the internet radio service. Luckily, I already had a home kit and portable boombox for my Starmate 4 radio and they both work great with the Stiletto.
The feature I was most looking forward to using on the Stiletto was the recording feature. It definitely didn't disappoint. It's basically like having Tivo for your radio. You can record individual songs and several hours of programming to play back whenever you want. Since I listen to the radio at work every day, I just attach it to my Sirius portable boombox at night and program it to record my favorite shows and music, and have several hours of stuff to listen to each day. It allows me to catch a lot of great stuff that I would have otherwise missed. The recording feature definitely helps you get the most of satellite radio.
All in all, I am extremely happy with this radio. Just be forewarned that to get any sort of reception indoors, you'll have to buy extra accessories.