Like me with 181,432 tracks…I guess you don’t.
Thought so, bummer
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Titan has 100k track limit also it looks like. These products are only good for small libraries. Makes no sense that there is nothing for large libraries.
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AFAIK, Titan is the replacement of the Nucleus+ - and according to Roon Labs article on hardware/software specs, the Nucleus+ is good for libraries up to 250K tracks…
You will note that the Titan specs say “over 100K tracks”, not up to 100K tracks…
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Missed the over part. Thought it said up to.
But out of my ballpark anyway
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I doubt that will change anything, the issues with needing a reboot wont go away with hardware, its the software end thats at fault.
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Yes, it’s a Nucleus, runs Roon Server on top of Roon OS, and does the things a Nucleus can do. But Roon OS is the same as all Roon OS devices, like the previous Nucleus and ROCK, and you can send output to HQP on a different machine like previously. This is new hardware, not a software update.
There is short video clip on YT showing how to install the 2.5” drive. It’s clearly a single drive HDD or SSD up to 8TB (size limit is for now I suppose).
OK, I see. Since Roon and HQP are on the same machine in my setup, I never thought of roon being on one machine and HQP on another.
Would I still output to my SoTM streamer via the network? The only difference would be that Roon wouldn’t be on my M1 iMac.
Really? There is a huge price gap between the One and the Titan (about 10 times more for the Titan?), and it seems a big performance gap too - at least the marketing copy for the Titan surely made it seem to me like it has considerably more performance than a Plus (and it should, given how much more it costs). I would have expected a replacement for the Plus to fill the gap in the middle, with a One - (new Plus) - Titan lineup.
At this $499 price point and with the NUC business in flux, it may not be a true NUC board inside. My educated guess would be a board based around the N5095/N5105 or N95/N100. A lot of mini PCs in the market right now are using boards with these Celeron level processors, which benchmark faster than the i3-7100U in the Nucleus.
AJ
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This looks really decent for most users - well done.
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Glad to see a new Nucleus at this price point. So much for the ‘Titan replacing everything’ FUD from January.
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Would this be able to function as an endpoint to a much more powerful Roon server?
I already have a quite powerful server streaming to a mini PC running Bridge for the HDMI output. I would like to use this simply as an endpoint and use the HDMI-out to my AVR - would that work?
Yes, I was looking around for something with the port configuration you see in the back of the One and could not figure out a match in the NUC family. It surely is a cheap mini-PC OEM part.
I wonder if the RPI5 would be powerful enough to run ROCK.
I wondered about whether there would be three models, but I suspect there will be just the two: the Nucleus One and the Titan. Put the big price differential down to pure marketing and fancy covers. There’s probably enough well-heeled audiophiles around for the Titan to appeal to that market…
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Certainly cheaper than any new Apple Mac Mini model.
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Doesn’t matter. If the One is good for 100K tracks, many people with 200K will not want to pay ten times as much for a Titan, even if there are audiophiles who don’t care.
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What an exciting product! Maybe this is a dumb question, but since it has HDMI audio out, I assume you can use that to feed the i2s input of a DAC?
If so that certainly makes this an enticing product to replace the PC I have built for my Roon core. Currently, I either use the USB out of that for my office system or have to add a streamer/DDC if I want to use different DAC inputs.
A refurbished base M2 Mini (256GB of internal storage) is $509 ($599 NIB).
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