Do I need a NUC (with ROCK) if I will only be using streaming service from Tidal with Audeze presets??
J
(I’m sure this is been answered somewhere else, but I’ve searched and haven’t found it yet) i’m sure this is been answered somewhere else, but I’ve searched and haven’t found it yet
What would the alternative be?
Just an iMac or MacBook
And thanks for replying and helping me out!
Modern iMac or MacBook is fine to run Roon
I’m not sure you even need roon in this setup unless it’s for the nice GUI and the audeze presets.
But that being the case you should be able to get buy with most post 2015 pc or Mac hardware assuming it has reasonable specs and an ssd bootable os using windows or mac
Gotcha, so no need for NUC building if only streaming… I will be using DSP for Audeze presets and other features…
Still no benefit…
Those Audeze presets are magical
Dsp can be demanding for some features…so specific model information will help
The ROCK/NUC has nothing to do with streaming or not.
It has to do with using a desktop operating system or an appliance style operating system.
The Audeze presents on PCM content should run on just about anything modern.
If its even a question I’ll spend the money… anything for my music…
grateful for the help guys
Understood
The best advice is to run it on what you have now and see if you have issues. If you don’t, spend the extra money you saved on the music 
Gotcha, thanks again…
Any word on “to go” option…??
Roon has no mobile offering but runs fine on laptops which can be moved around obviously.
We are looking to solve the mobile use case, but don’t hold your breath. It’s a big project.
I’m running now when I travel on a Mac book pro late 2013 i7 maxed out 16gb ram and 1tb ssd and works fine…while I have the iSine20’s I don’t often use them on my laptop with presets but I can try it…I use only with tidal as I don’t travel with a drive full of music…this it’s doable. I tend to use the internal speakers for music in the room and not my head. Tidal on iOS when “on the go”
Awesome, you guys rock
Grateful again
J Rapp
You can see when clicking on the audio path there will be a processing speed indicated. If this is above 100 then speed is shown, nut if it’s below ~1.4X then you start to experience signal dropouts or noises that indicate your DSP settings are likely too much for your hardware to keep up with.
Normally this is compounded when upsampling to higher bit rates…or down sampling from…but many filters and taps can also put a strain on what else is going on.
As you haven’t indicated a model of mbp we can only assume that you are comfortable with what you are running currently.
I’m just going to build the NUC, and ill use the to go option you stated
I don’t want to take a chance with drop outs…
You guys rock