Hello newbie here,
I have lurked for a ages but am bursting with questions so decided to join in.
History:
Loved hard rock/metal for 40+ years. But stopped buying physical media in late 90s. Still have about 100 of my old LPs and my old cheapish turntable. I am not an audiophile per se and don't have huge amounts of cash.
About 3yrs ago I had a pay increase and decided to purchase the huge set of mp3 I had as physical CDs - and get CDs for any LPs that I didn't have on CD. So now I have about 1500 of them. Now about 10yrs ago I met a surround engineer and was given a couple of DVD-As but didn't really listen to them much back then and the player I had broke years ago. So while buying the CDs I remembered the DVD-As and decided to build a surround system.
I already had a pioneer amp that did 5.1 surround but it had no pre amp inputs. So I bought an old DENON DVD player off ebay that played SACD/DVD-A's for £50 and I also bought a faulty Onkyo 606 off ebay for £50 and replaced the capacitors to get it working again. I then replaced my front speakers with a pair of yamaha floorstanding speakers that were cosmetically damaged and bought an old Mourdant Short centre speaker for £35. I had existing small Pioneer surround speakers already and currently I haven't added a subwoofer as this is all only in the spare bedroom and the floor speakers have reasonable base.
So during my purchases I checked to see what I could buy in surround. I probably now have about 150 albums/concerts in surround.
As I have spent most of my life listening to tapes then mp3/flac I am not the sort that wants to put albums or a turntable or even put on a CD. I want my stuff on my phone and want to access to all my albums or videos via network or external hard drive. So I did a lot of digging/research to be able to rip to FLAC and/or MKV all my music from Bluray, DVD-V, DVD-A, SACD, CD. I used Foobar and a PC to send to Onkyo.
After research I decided to buy a Sony X800 which gave me cover for playing SACD/DVDA but would also play all my rips from either an external hard drive or my Buffalo NAS drives including multichannel. Removing the need to turn on PC and mess about to play files.
Now:
So currently I have a 5.0 system and ability to play all my collection from rips via network NAS.
But I am at a crossroads.....ATMOS is calling me. My ONKYO owes me nothing although I'll be sad to decommissioning it.
I have a few ATMOS blurays and I am looking at what I can do to upgrade. Probably need a new AV Amp and two upfiring speakers.
Looking for an AV Amp that does ATMOS but it needs to still plays my multichannel FLAC, DSD and MKV files.
I think MakeMKV rips ATMOS?
Researching Denon ARVX2700 but spec doesn't say it will play multichannel FLAC. Most specs don't say this clearly and it's a lot of money to get it wrong.
Oh PS
......if you had a CD that also had a multichannel DVD-V with it. Would you rip the CD or the DVD-V for the stereo version?
The DVD-V is lossy I know so is the CD better quality?
Cheers
Well, maybe that Snood guy, but he kinda loopy 
