Two days into my Titan Stone and my Nucleus Plus is 100% getting shipped in for exchange credit.
Well done, Roon!
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Thanks for the photo, it looks beautiful. Feel free to share more pictures 
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Were you stoned when you purchased it? 
Hopefully you are placing it somewhere where it is seen and not heard
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I may have been a little stoned. 
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The centre area looks like it will be a dust collector extraordinaire.
Have you one of these at the ready 
I assume you played a bit of these first in honour of the finish
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Someone said the face plate is detachable, so it may be dishwasher safe.
I think dusting would be easier and better for it in the long run.
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Not if you use a special additive during the drying cycle. It is well known in the audiophile world that the electric properties of the server’s case have a big impact on sound quality.
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A product opportunity Snake Oil Rinse Aid , I can think of hundreds of uses 
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I’ve used rinse aid in my home made record cleaning fluid as a surfactant.
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I always thought it was a mild acid with surfactant , maybe descales the record too !
Dr Google says …
Rinse aid compositions in accordance with the invention comprise **a low foaming ethoxylated nonionic surfactant, normally an organic chelating agent, a water soluble magnesium, zinc, tin, bismuth or titanium salt and an aqueous solubilising system
Not sure I want to use it now
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She would certainly tickle my fancy 
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I’d buy one if she came with it.
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I also had a Roon Nucleus+ that died just out of warranty. Big disappointment have spending $3500 for the unit two years ago. I have seen multiple posts about this and would be interested in understanding what the failure rate for Roon Nucleus is after 2 years. Do you have a view on this?
@Scott_Lonning Got mine march 2018, Rev A obviously , still going fine… hopefully not just jinxed things 
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My only view on it, really, is advice for anyone buying a Nucleus (or any NUC) is to be hyper vigilant on it during its warranty period. I say this because I was having HDMI connectivity issues while my Nucleus was under warranty but found a workaround that was sufficient for my needs. Turns out it was an early sign of the motherboard having issues. If I would have sent it in as soon as I noticed the issue, I may have been able to make the case that it was covered under warranty (as it failed out of warranty). But I didn’t and had to eat the $800 motherboard replacement cost from Roon.
My biggest, personal takeaway from all this is for me not to buy an NUC in a fancy case for a premium price again. If my Nucleus+ dies, I will look into purchasing the latest NUC board, taking my existing Nucleus+ Rev B case to a machine shop and have them cut the back out so that I can use ANY NUC board inside of it and not be limited by the output layout.
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I have a Nucleus Plus Rev A. It was a demo. It’s less than two years old. It came with a one year warranty, and during the first year lost its codecs folder. It still functioned, and was returned and restored under warranty.
I think the case is part of the problem. It’s only effectively cooling down the CPU. Stock NUC cases also induce airflow thru the motherboard components via the fan and holes around the case.