I highly recommend installing it alongside RoonServer, to get some actual performance data on Roon, rather than relying on hunches as to what you need hardware-wise. Continuing the discussion from ROCK on NUC vs. on Nucleus: I just set up a NUC8i7 with 256MB SSD and a 1TB secondary SSD with 8GB of RAM for less than $700. Roon Labs has pre-selected two Intel NUC based systems on which people should install ROCK. USB audio is a bit of a mess in that DACs vary in how sensitive they are to stray electrical noise from the USB source. 4GB 2,400MHz DDR4 RAM (can be increased to 16gb) 128GB M.2 SSD Installed for Roon ROCK OS - Secondary internal 2.5" SSD Available for storage (Roon OS updates wipe the M.2 Drive so this cannot be used for storage.) With over 300k tracks you need to have 16GB RAM. Getting started with Roon ROCK with an Intel NUC. Roon 1.8 Update: Go Your Own Way Described by some as the second coming of machine learning for computer audio, music playback platform Roon has released its 1.8 update. (…) I believe Roon tried to minimize this in Nucleus. On the software side, ROCK is a prepackaged Linux-Roon distribution that is easy to manage for people unfamiliar with Linux, and leaves out the Linux stuff that is not needed for a Roon server. DSP) are strongly dependent on single-core performance. Why Does the Nucleus Have to Be So Expensive? How Roon works can be broken up into three distinct sections: the first is the Roon Core, which is the brain of the operation, residing on the Nucleus HD (or your laptop or PC, NUC, etc.) Features. As in 'I will always own one'. Det bästa sättet att uppleva Roon helt enkelt! The new models will become available across the UK during September 2019. Thought of returning mine for a noisier one; do not want to be cheated. I know there are folks with exceptional hearing and I guess any sound invading their listening space would be objectionable. Other things (e.g. In parallel to the development of networked streaming audio products, we’ve seen the development of servers and control software too. isn’t that what a community is all about? @brian posted this White Paper we wrote up about Nucleus elsewhere, but you will probably enjoy reading it. The brain behind the Roon experience is the Roon Core. sure. If you have a USB DAC this should work for you as well but do check with Roon to see if your DAC is compatible. ROCK offers a few different options for storing your music, each with advantages and disadvantages. The ultimate Roon experience. I haven’t heard a nucleus+ but is there any way one can justify the price difference other than convenience? Is there any way one can justify the price difference other than convenience? 1 Like StephenPacker December 27, 2020, 9:26am #3 You will have to built the NUC yourself. With your enormous library you need to have the fastest and highest spec desktop PC running Windows version of Roon. A dealer that carries Nucleus claims that Nucleus has a version of ROCK that cannot be had / downloaded form Roon to be used with NUC. Roon Labs Nucleus 19,490 kr. Designed by the team that made Roon, Nucleus is the only music server on the market that is designed from the ground up to provide the best Roon experience. Well. I have been confused by the expressed concern for noise. Besides, Roon Labs also sells customized hardware, the Roon Nucleus. Thank you ROON for offering this as a low cost option. Nucleus is engineered to be quiet and to provide a good USB audio output. Do you happen to remember your sources for that ? From the outset, Roon was intended to produce a rich metadata experience. Both the $1,399 and $2,499 Nucleus and Nucleus+ look precisely the same. Over time, I have used a Windows desktop, a Windows NUC, a ROCK NUC and now a Nucleus. Dealers have a lot to answer for when it comes to spreading BS disguised as fact. No troubleshooting and configuration of the platform. 31,490 kr. Roon Labs suggests that the Nucleus+ be used if one is going to use the DSP features of Roon such as DSD upsampling; the standard Nucleus might come up short on horsepower in some (but not all) use cases. But recently I read a blog saying that i7 NUC sounds better than i3 NUC(running ROCK). THE NUCLEUS IS MORE THAN A ROON CORE, IT IS A STREAMER AS WELL..and A DAMN GOOD ONE in the right system. Fanless; 2 USB ports for USB audio devices or external storage devices; 2 HDMI audio outputs for connecting to your AVRs Nucleus supports thousands of audio devices via USB, HDMI, and your wired or wireless network. We’ve used that (and a ton of additional in-home expertise in operating systems) to make it run cool and to make it run quiet. Some NUC’s are noisier than others. NUC8 / Intel® Wireless-AC 9560 / Linux driver wifi, The shift to small, single-purpose devices (wonkish). If you are in the market for a better Roon experience, this … Some DACs are a bit too sensitive to the electrical USB noise from a basic Raspberry Pi endpoint, for instance. Alas, I don’t think you can install netdata on ROCK. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. Just personal choice. My NUC 7i7 is totally silent. They are competitively priced and they deliver above expectations in terms of sound and usability. That's where this video steps in! HFC gets to grips with this powerful solutionIn the world of networked audio, a seamless user experience to back up the solid performance is key to any success. this seems to be right. The ROCK operating system … The internal drive is not used to store audio files. Congratulations on getting your NUC setup and welcome. Roon Labs Nucleus+. Further, he claims that is vastly superior version of ROCK and sounds much better. Playing though a RP3 with Allo DigiOne into my Benchmark DAC 1 HDR it sounds great and is completely reliable. It is a problem for some people, not others. On a more serious note, the NUC was a fun build. This is true. Each required progressively less management and troubleshooting. It appears that most people find the SQ better than from day the NUC i3 or i5, correct? So, no optimization using Intel provided tools that enhance or otherwise affect the resulting sonic performance of the Nucleus vs. the other two extant offerings you list? Whether or not that stuff has some indirect effect on sound quality via another mechanism is not an area in which we are making any claims. The ROON crew not only came up with a dedicated box that is dead quiet, compact, and looks super cool, they even wrote their own OS that is optimized for ROON and nothing else. Neither price tag includes storage or a Roon subscription My background is working with really fast mainframe computers and I suffer from the Tim Allen “More Power” mentality. ‘It’s an appliance’ doesn’t work well as a sales technique to someone who’s spent half an hour trying to programme his cook top out of demo mode this morning so he could have his pancakes. I will have no use for the foreseeable future for DSP and my library is about 4000 CDs burned to a Firewire/MiniUSB drive. But dual core vs quad core, price and the desire to build my own was the deciding factor for me. but it’s challenging to make the decision without actually hearing the products.

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