Offline Music Storage & Playback Recommendations


Really a 2 Question Post. Hoping for some good advise....and hoping I placed this in the right category...

I live in a very rural area, cell phone coverage is spotty, and my Wi-Fi is bleak (very bleak as in 2-4 mbps) when it works, so I have built a dedicated audio room (20' by 30') and have a nice "mid-fi" system. I have a Tidal account and have 5-6000 tracks downloaded to my phone which I can play in "offline" mode through my system as well as a large CD collection I often enjoy. So my system and listening environment is basically an offline system. (photos / gear all listed in my profile) 

Question 1) Recommendations for a very nice Music Storage component that I could burn all my CD's into which does not require wi-fi  to operate. Something like the Naim Uniti Core Music Server? It would be OK to have something that operated through an app?, but lack of wi-fi is the issue. 

Question 2) Currently I play a lot of music from my Tidal downloads on my phone, and I simply Bluetooth from my phone to my Marantz 8006 source then from the digital coax out through my Pontus II and out to the Luxman 509X My question is if I would see a significant SQ improvement running from my phone through a nice USB cable (Audioquest Coffee?) and going directly into the DAC vs Bluetooth??

Any Advise is appreciated!

carzmaguy88

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

@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.