I have a SkyFi 2 with the standard car adapter kit. I stuck the magnetic antenna to the metal rod in the right rear wheel well and snaked the wire into the console. I plugged the power cord into the receptacle there too. The receiver is a tight fit, and you have to remember to turn it off every time you are going to leave the car for any length of time since that receptacle is always hot. Now to the question at hand. We took a 200 mile drive today from Southern Maryland to Fredericksburg, and Quantico, VA and back, and the sound was just fine, to my old, used up ears. I think the sound is as good as the CD copies in my changer and the FM radio reception (such as it is down here). Reception seems to be good through the fender (I read this in another thread also), but tree lines affect it a bit more than in the Acadia with a big roof-mount antenna, or in the departed G-35 and Miata with the same antenna I have in the Corvette.