Can you play 24/192 files with the Nucleus

[Tony_Pereira (Tony)]

Hello, I want to buy a Roon Nucleus, I have an SSD with 2 TB albums. I am leaning towards the Nucleus and not the Plus due to the price. However, since I have quite a few Flac albums in 24/192 and DSD, I’m not sure if I can play them then, I think I read that the Nucleus plays a maximum of 24/96 files. Is this correct?

Thanks for your answer and your help.

[bearFNF]

Should be able to,

Maximum Nucleus bit-rate/sample rate via USB?

Note that DSD512 requires kernel driver recognition of your DAC as ‘DSD native’ capable. Otherwise, the max you will get is DSD256 via DoP. This isn’t necessarily a big problem, but every time a new DAC comes along, it does take a while to get added. The Ropieee and DietPi folks seem to be the quickest about updating their kernel builds to recognize new native DSD DACs.

[AceRimmer (Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)]

The Nucleus does not play anything really, it will just pass on the music to a dac of your choice and that will be the limiting factor on resolution.
A Nucleus should be good for 24/768 pcm and even dsd512 processing power wise unless you are doing a lot of other heavy lifting with it as well.

[Tony_Pereira (Tony)]

Hello, thank you for your help, your support

[Tor_Gunnar_Berland]

24bit/192kHz works fine (of course) with the Nucleus. Even 24bit/768kHz (or beyond).