Okay, folks— don’t get carried away and start believing your own worst fears and doomcasting. We’re just introducing a new Nucleus. Two new Nucleus devices have replaced the previous two Nucleus devices. We’re not discontinuing ROCK or stopping support for Roon on PC, Mac, NAS, etc.
Have mercy. It’s like leaving a room full of kids alone during a sleepover. It only takes ten minutes for the nightmare-inducing stories to roll out. Please don’t be offended, I say this lovingly.
Look, here’s the story. Our customers, maybe some of you, even, asked us to make an affordable Nucleus that still does all the cool Nucleus stuff that people love but costs less money. We did that; it’s called Nucleus One.
Please don’t get your fellow Community members all stirred up about things that haven’t happened. There’s enough to worry about in the world without creating additional stress over things that haven’t occurred.
What did that Seneca cat say? The man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Something like that. Whatever it was - he was right. Chill out, dudes. Fears aren’t facts - let’s not freak each other out needlessly.
If you start to worry, just remember our credo - Roon plays with everything. And then, feel better.
They do not differ sonically from previous models. These are music servers, as such they weren’t built to color the sound. As I wrote in the Nucleus One blog post coming later this week:
Nucleus One provides a perfectly achromatic foundation that feeds a transparent signal to Roon’s audio engine. That neutrality lets you add tonal color with MUSE or customize your sound with a diverse array of audio devices.
Addendum:
I was using a Rev-A Nucleus Plus in my set-up before I received a Nucleus One for testing. When I swapped them out, everything sounded exactly as it did previously. I couldn’t detect a single difference in terms of sound quality. This is a system I know well and listen to often. I’d like to think I would have heard a difference if there was one. Given my experience, I’d say that folks needn’t be worried about sound quality differences against the previous models if they’re considering Nucleus One.
2 years is more than most jurisdictions required until a few years ago. Sure some companies offered more if you bought tens of K of gear, but never for a cheap computer.
Lets be realistic everyone Long warranties aren’t a gift, you pay for it when purchasing, like insurance
Setting my Roon Marketing cape aside, I’ll answer this as jamie, the music-loving guy who enjoys talking with all of you on Community.
I’ve learned that certain axioms I embrace and try to live by seem to hold true:
How we interpret things is generally a product of our life experiences and how they’ve colored our view of the world we live in.
Life is change but change is still scary
There’s a lot more good than bad in the world.
Assuming to know the motivations and thought processes of others is a dodgy notion. What we think we know is more often than not a reflection of our own worst fears, best hopes, or some waypoint in between.
It’s great to be a part of a Community, and I’m always fascinated and amazed by the conversations here.
Most companies these days offer only 1 year of warranty. You’ll be quite lucky to get two. And to be honest a 2 year warranty for a device at this price point is very generous.
The Nucleus One can manage a library of < 100,000 tracks with little DSP (DSD upsampling will surely not work for example). So I am curious as to what hardware is the minimal hardware to do this.
This is a very reasonable question, especially in the light that ROCK exists and for that we configure our own hardware.
I am also interested in what the Nucleus Titan configuration is so that I know what is considered the upper-bound of hardware that I could build myself.
Hey @miguelito, both Noris and I have upsampled to DSD512 successfully with Nucleus One. As @Suedkiez quoted from my blog article posted today, I’m able to upsample to DSD256 with EQ without the slightest issue.
Here’s my Signal Path right now. 44.1kHz being upsampled to 352.8kHz (the maximum PCM capability of my DAC), 5 bands of EQ applied, conversion from there to DSD256. Processing speed holding steady between 2.4 & 2.7. All is well.
Please don’t be offended, I say this lovingly.
Long warranties aren’t a gift, you pay for it when purchasing, like insurance
