True, I can't find complete information on any of those cheap extractors so for now I will just use coax to the Marantz so he can at least be hooked up again. When I visit next I'll bring him a cheap laptop (maybe my old netbook) for .flac files and Tidal streaming output through USB to the...

The coax will only output 48kHz instead of 96 or 192. Something to do with copyright protection.

This is setup is for my dad who would be happy listening to the old mp3 CDs I made him a long time ago on the Grado Alessandro MS-1 I bought for him a while back. I recently discovered that a couple easy changes were holding back my personal audio setup from being great and and while my dad...