Same with my NUC, it sits in the living room and I’ve never heard it. My living room is never truly silent, traffic, birds in the trees, all contribute to a soundtrack.
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Why ?
Is it specified to do what you want why worry how, if not build your own ? You are buying an appliance not a computer 
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Good move Roon, a tidy solution that could increase uptake among those less DIY inclined. I look forward to some comparisons with the similarly enabled USB audio out budget Innuos products (which favour power supply improvements over chip spec to seemingly good effect).
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Building up my own Roon servers is never a waste of my time and it’s not for you to say that it is.
I’ve built 4 or 5 over the years as my library and interest in Roon has grown. I’ve sold on the NUCs and repurposed the MOCKs.
It’s interesting and occasionally, dare I say it, fun.
I’m happy you now have a turnkey solution that works for you but I’ll get a lot more bang for my buck with the same money and a modest investment of my time.
Very good news about this Nucleus One! The only question I have at the moment is the aging capacity of the plastic coating. I just got rid of a Bluesound node 2 which, after 6 years, had become so sticky that it caught all the dust in the room. Will the Nucleus One escape this major drawback?
Roon recommends an Ethernet connection Server > Router and Router > End Point which makes power supplies moot, hence just a power brick. There are many debates on the forum re “better power supplies” for Nucleus…
I suppose it may count if you use USB from Server > End Point directly
I guess this is not a hard threshold as the number of tracks is not the only factor whether a collection will drive the core to the limits or not. If you do not have a complex library in roon´s terms (lots of unidentified albums, big files, boxsets, anthologies with zillions of references), it should work.
Yes, I’m interested in the USB implementation
One may still wonder if one can build the same/similar thing for a cheaper/competitive price or not.
Hi, any idea of when the Nucleus One will be available in the UK?
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Sorta thought the idea was a box , plug and play . If you want DIY then go for it , this is a different market as an appliance ?
It’s not unreasonable if some people want to know what the specs are that Roon considers good enough for 100K tracks in the N One, and whether they can build a comparable one cheaper or not. It’s not as if Roon’s ROCK specs are very clear on the subject.
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Nucleus One seems like a very good way to get more people using Roon at a very attractive price. Add a 1Tb SSD drive for $75 and you’re at a price below a new Mac Mini with just 256Gb SSD – and you don’t need a monitor/keyboard/mouse to set up Roon on the Mac Mini. I think this is pretty compelling. And if the fan is quiet enough, you might even be able to just run it directly into a DAC and bypass needing a separate streamer. That HDMI output – I’m hoping – should be i2s capable. If it isn’t, it’s a big miss on Roon’s part.
I don’t think any off the shelf motherboards are i2s capable.
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Did not see this coming. Nice work, roon!
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Roon, why is there an increase of over USD$3,000.00 for a Nucleus server that handles over 100,000 tracks?
It’s called aiming at the luxury audiophile market segment. 
The rest of us will just build our own ROCK/NUC equivalent…
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If the specs are similar then I would buy a Nucleus One instead of a NUC or MAC Mini. However I am not spending 5k on a Roon server such as Titan.
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Why do multiple posters keep assuming this? HDMI is just HDMI. Plain and simple, HDMI is not I²S. And if it is I²S, then it is not HDMI. The size and shape of the connector port are not relevant.
AJ
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I think they should give a year subscription for the One when purchasing an appliance from them and a lifetime with the Titan.
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