Offline Music Storage & Playback Recommendations

For storing music from your disc collection, you can use ExactAudioCopy with a USB CD-ROM drive connected to your PC to rip CD audio. Then store all that music in a folder and share that folder over your local network. The Marantz should be able to find the shared folder and play music from it.

If the shared folder doesn't work, Windows has a built in DLNA server. Just do a search for 'windows dlna' to get instructions on how to enable it. Make sure the audio files are in the 'Music' directory.

Bluetooth uses lossy compression to send audio to the 8006. That’s not ideal for Tidal. If possible, try switching to UPnP instead. That will stream uncompressed audio.

If UPnP isn’t an option, then directly connecting the phone to the 8006 would get you the same sound quality.

Don’t worry about buying a fancy USB cable. As long as you don’t hear any dropouts or glitches, the data is getting from your phone to the Marantz intact.

Very nice looking system. I highly recommend Aurender. I have tried lots of streaming solutions… Mac and PC based… none were good until I purchased a Aurlic Aries G2… then I found Aurender.

I own two an N100 and W20SE. I stream 95% of the time… and the Aurender is spectacular at making up for wifi deficiencies… but completely understand your situation. Most Aurender streamers have plenty of internal storage. You can just transfer your files to the internal storage. I cannot detect a difference between a red book CD, playing a file and streaming… well unless the streaming is of higher quality… very common on Qobuz.

@carzmaguy88 
In response to your first question, the choices are almost unlimited. Only your budget will dictate what you pick. There are a lot of very good music servers out there from Melco to Aurender to Innuous-zenith to Antelope etc.  They all can be controlled by an app on your phone or iPad. Your internet speed will not be an issue since that communication will be local to your network. You will be able to transfer all of your music to the server hard drive and with a decent tagging software, you will be able to access your music very conveniently and with great fidelity. Good luck. 

Go Wired, since WiFi is such an issue.  Use an App that can be used from a computer as opposed to a mobile device

When I start building my system, I'm going to go to Baetis Audio:

@carzmaguy88 , When you have access to a computer, perhaps at work visit www.hdtracks.com. You can download high res (CD and better) files. The ones on your phone are mp3 files and through a big system they are not going to sound very good. If you download the files at work you can transfer them to a thumb drive and take them home.

I personally think Music servers are not the best way to approach digital music reproduction. I use an Apple Mini, Channel D's Pure Music program and an 8 TB hard drive with a backup drive. This is much more powerful than a server. You need a USB DAC also. 

mijostyn: Great advise! I will look into that. I have a great way to do what you mentioned.