Considering purchasing a Roon Nucleus soon. My question is where would I connect it into my current system.
Current set up……
Ethernet cable from router to digital media converter to Sonore optical module via fibre cable to Lumin T2 Streamer/DAC via short Ethernet cable.
Thank you.
Ethernet cable direct from Router.
That’s it.
Don’t make it more complicated than it needs to be TBH.
So, after the Sonore optical I would assume? I’m still looking to utilize that component in my Ethernet stream.
No, it makes no difference where the Nucleus actually is, just needs the network to see it.
So just a direct Ethernet connection right from your router, nothing else.
The Lumin will see it on the network too so you actually don’t need to connect anything else to the Nucleus at all.
What are you using for your Roon Core right now as that is ALL the Nucleus is going to replace.
So no benefits to the Nucleus converting the Ethernet signal to fiber prior, or just won’t matter?
I really can’t imagine there would be any benefit at all but I have never tried it or heard of it being done.
What would the Nucleus be replacing as Roon Core in your present setup?
Connect the Roon Nucleus using a network cable to your switch or router.
There is no change to how your Lumin is connected to the network if that is already working.
My laptop computer. It hangs up periodically
and needs to be rebooted at times. Do you think there will be any sonic values with having the Nucleus as my core. I’m not a big library guy
or really all that much interested in that kind
of stuff that comes along with Roon. My concern is primarily sound quality. I was considering adding some storage capacity
to the standard Nucleus model but can’t fully
understand how that would benefit the sound in any way. Can you speak to that aspect a bit please?
I would expect absolutely zero change in sound quality, that’s kind of where I was going with the questions.
The Nucleus maybe more stable than your old laptop but it may not.
First I would investigate what exactly is causing problems on your existing laptop.
Lack of CPU?
Ram?
Network?
It’s Ram. I just may consider freeing up some space there and roll with the laptop. Thank you for all your advice here.
Sounds like a good plan.
I used an old win10 laptop for some time and once I had stripped everything else of it that was non essential it was just fine and could even upsample to DSD 128.
Hate to see you wasting money when there might not be any need to.
And then become frustrated because of it.
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