Any Nucleus One owners playing multichannel DSD (ripped SACDs) with DSP/PEQ?

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My Salkstream III server, purchased in 2016, is acting up. Since Salk is no longer in business, I’m considering replacing it. My preference would be not to have to go the DIY route.

The Nucleus One seems like an attractive option (Titan is too expensive), but I don’t know if it’s suitable for my use case;

28k tracks (9200 tracks are local files, the rest are Qobuz)
Multichannel PCM and DSD files
Some DSP use; PEQ or Convolution file, Headroom Management (I do not use Upsampling).

For example

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Can any Nucleus One owners confirm whether or not it can handle this use case? Roon’s description is a bit vague about this.

Thank you. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I don’t have the Nucleus One.

28K tracks would not be an issue.

Multi-channel PCM would not be an issue.

DSP would not expect DSP to be an issue.

Playing DSD MC over HDMI with the resulting double conversion to PCM could be an issue. That is a heavy load on the CPU and probably why the Signal Path Processing Speed is 4.4x.

My current server is a NUC817BEH/ROCK. Playing DSD 256 5.1 over HDMI with the conversion to PCM drags the processor down to 1x and skipping occurs. I don’t have any DSD 64 MC files to check but do expect that would be a lighter load than DSD 265.

I would expect any Roon server playing DSD to a DSD capable DAC, without HDMI and the forced conversion to PCM, to work fine without any issues.

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Thanks for the response. :+1:

This is where I’m stuck and can’t fine any info. I’m hoping someone with a Nucleus One and a similar use case can test this.

Btw, the best I can remember, my Salkstream (purchased 2016) uses an i5 processor with 8gb ram. It hasn’t had any issues with this use case (though I’m currently having other issues :frowning:).

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Any Nucleus One owners out there playing multichannel? Is my use case that unique? :frowning:

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For clarity, is this playing stereo or multichannel DSD 256?

Thanks.

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It is DSD 256 5.1 surround. I don’t choose to play those files with the HDMI connection, but Radio followup feature selects them on occasions when the queue ends.

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Thanks.

If not via HDMI, how do you play those files?

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I purchased the exaSound S88 in 2021 for DSD playback. With the Roon Ready Ethernet connection it plays up to 256 in multichannel and 512 in Stereo.

The NUC/ROCK server has no issues at all playing DSD 256 5.1 or DSD 512 stereo with Ethernet. The signal path processing speed is not displayed so over 100x.

It is the double conversion to PCM over HDMI that drags the processor down to 1x.

I haven’t found a way to stop the radio followup from selecting them.

I’m interested in a server setup that can easily handle those situations. Maybe a newer NUC has the power or the Nucleus Titan. No idea if the Nucleus One can handle that.

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Nice setup! :grinning::+1:

Roon Ready multichannel via Ethernet seems to be a rarity, unfortunately. :frowning:

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Eversolo DMP-A6 is roon ready with Ethernet and Multichannel DSD playback for around 750.00 Cool feature is HDMI out that plays DSD MC. If I was in the market for one today I’d have a hard time passing that up.

Eversolo has a couple of newer models, DMP-A6 Master Edition, DMP-A8 and DMP-A10, each has different features sets, costs more, but those don’t have the HDMI out that plays DSD MC.

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