Comments on: Sirius SLH2 Home Install Kit for the Stiletto 2 Portable Radio

By: Timothy B. Riley

Timothy B. Riley — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:16 +0000

I have owned Sirius radios for over 7 years and this Home Docking Kit is exactly what I expected. I use it to connect my Stiletto 2 to my home stereo. I use the included antenna (I ran the cord through a window and placed it on my roof according to the instructions) and get great reception. An added benefit with the Stiletto is that I can record up to 100 hours of programs to listen to when I am on a plane and I do all of that recording while it is docked. I am very happy with this product.

By: Erik Schultz

Erik Schultz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:00:54 +0000

3/3/08: To add insult to injury, the audio jack on this thing completely ceased to function after one week of usage.

This device is almost completely useless. The manual for this device that’s available on Sirius’ website implies that this device allows for FM transmission – that is a lie. Here’s what you DO get: You can plug your headphones into it. You can connect it to your computer via USB. You can plug an antenna into it. In other words, no new functionality that isn’t already built into the Stiletto 2 itself. The one thing you DO get that’s new is a remote control, which I personally will never use (and which came included with the last Sirius radio I bought). In effect, I’ve paid $50 for a fancy AC charger. I cannot WAIT for the XM/Sirius merger so that I can listen to Sirius on XM’s superior hardware.

By: Matthew A. Blumenthal

Matthew A. Blumenthal — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:05:58 +0000

Need a home dock for your Siruis Stiletto 2? Then look no further because this is the only choice you have.

By: Kristy M. Eaton

Kristy M. Eaton — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:42:05 +0000

I love the Stiletto 2. I got it as a present for my husband’s birthday and it was finally the one time I got him something he would have never got for himself but loves.

We enjoy it so much and got the extra memory card so we have 8GB of our own music on it, too. I am SO glad I got the home kit…we can sit right in our living room and play it through the stereo and it’s awesome!!

By: D. Newhouse

D. Newhouse — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:15:14 +0000

“please ignore my 3-star rating for this item; i provided one only b/c i’m required to in order to post. i’m sure the product, in and of itself, is fine, but i bought it for a very specific application, which in theory should have been easily achievable, and instead was not. read on if curious…….i have (what is now) an older model of the stiletto, the SL10, which i had always used as a “walkman”-type unit only. recently, out of necessity, i decided to purchase a home kit for my stiletto. i”ve had relatively good success with other sirius home kits (used to have a starmate 1), so i was inclined to get a simple home kit for the SL10, rather than a boombox-type home dock, the soloist model, or other. as of the date of this review (nov. ‘08), it is almost impossible to find the SLH1 home kit (the one for the SL10 and SL100 models) at retail any longer, so i (rather stupidly) assumed the SLH2 would work just fine. comparing/contrasting online photos seemed to suggest the two are interchangeable, and sirius recently has released products with more standardized serial ports, and universal-type docks for other receivers, so it seemed reasonable to assume the newer SLH2 is backwards compatible with the older SLH1. THEY ARE NOT. i bought an SLH2, and when i removed the pieces from the box for some old-fashioned, hands-on comparison, guess what? while the male/female jacks for the A/C power cord, the antenna, and the audio out appear to be the same, sirius — apparently — has resized the chassis (a few centimeters in width, and a few more in depth) for the stiletto 2, and then further exacerbated the problem by retooling the mold for the docking cradle, so that now it is sized only for the stiletto 2!! WHY? why does sirius still make disastrous product engineering decisions like this? they are standardizing other design features. can they not take it one step further and — at a minimum — at least standardize accessories within a given product line, regardless of model age? short of an enterprising owner in possession of a dremel, an X-acto knife, some precision tools and TIME, the only way i can see how an SL10/SL100 could work with the SLH2 is to surgically carve away some plastic. i have none of these, so i returned the item.”