When you restore a backup, the DSP/MUSE settings associated with each zone will be retained.
Hmm. This may or may not be the case. You don’t say what Mac you are migrating from. It is probable that the Nucleus One may be more limited in it’s ability to perform DSP than many Macs. This is most likely to manifest if you try do DSP operations on high bit rate DSD sources (DSD256 is possibly borderline whilst DSD512 will almost certainly not work) whilst retaining the DSD presentation to your DAC/Streamer. Allowing DSD to be converted to PCM is not so demanding and should work with the Nucleus One.
Question 3:
The port forwarding setup will be identical. If you currently use uPNP or natPmP, then it should just be plug and play. If you use a manual port forwarding rule, you will likely need to change the destination ip address of the rule (your Nucleus One is unlikely to be given the same ip address as your Mac) and, if you do that, you should use a DHCP address reservation to ensure that the Nucleus One is always allocated the same ip address (Or you could set the N1 to use a static ip address but, personally, I always advise against that as it can cause problems with inaccessible devices later if you change your router (or change the subnet employed by your current router).
I’m using fairly basic MUSE settings - parametric eq, procedural eq, headroom and few other filters for presets. Will these all be retained in Nucleus One when backed up and restored on the One?
Thanks.
@APV
Again, this depends on your situation. How many zones are you going to do DSP at the same moment? I presume that for one are even two zones the Nucleus One will be able to calculate everything, but if you are using seven independent zones, all with DSP, I can guarantee you that your Nucleus One will be too small.
Good luck with your Nucleus One, Frank.
I’m confused. I have 10 zones and each has some form of preset MUSE setting. I generally only play one or two zones simultaneously. Most of the time I’m playing just my main integrated amp (Krell) 2 channel zone. The rest of my zones are Blue Sound and one other Yamaha integrated amp.
I know the Nucleus one can only play up to 6 zones simultaneously but it can show all 10 zones correct?
Wish the documentation was a bit clearer.
In my mind running Roon on the Nucleus One would be far superior to running on a 12 year old Mac running an old version of OS but maybe not?
Is it worth the Nucleus One or leave the Mac?
Thanks.
@APV
No panic. You may have up to 10 zones, as long as you don’t play all of them together. Sorry that I was not clear in my text. The fact that you have 10 zones is absolutely no issue. When you play one or two zones at the same time with DSP (MUSE, …) will not be a problem for a Nucleus One. If you, on the other hand, want to play all the 10 zones with DSP at the same time, will not be the best experience, as the Nucleus One does not have the calculating power to do that.
The Nucleus One is not the server with the highest performance, but I would think that it will outperform the 12-year old MAC.
I hope this message can reassure you.
Kind regards, Frank.
Yes it can show all but may have limitations playing to many zones simultaneously, in particular if using DSP as well. (This is all stated in the Nucleus specs)
Most likely yes. This is the first time you state which kind of Mac you are migrating from, although it was pointed out in the second reply:
In all fairness the Nucleus specs are not very detailed at all:
AUDIO ZONES
Up to 6 simultaneous zones
DSP
All DSP functions available in the PCM domain, certain combinations of functions using DSD, upsampling, or multichannel processing may not be possible
Hence I asked Roon directly but never heard back.
I may have wasted my money and might return it since it might not have the capabilities of an old Mac running old OS. That’s seems crazy to me unless the Nuckeus One is only designed for very very simple setups/audio operations.
Indeed. What I was trying to say was that, since you didn’t say what Mac you were using, we couldn’t say whether the Nuclues One would represent a performance upgrade or downgrade.
When comparing a Nucleus One against a 12 year old intel based Mac Mini, the Nucleus One might compare favourably. When comparing against a Mac Pro of the same generation it is probably more difficult to say which will offer the best performance without explicit testing. Comparing a Nucleus One against a modern M4 Mac (even a Mini) is likely to be unfavorable to the Nucleus One.
Of course, with a 12 year old Mac - which has presumably been left behind in respect of OSx upgrades - there may be other, perfectly valid, reasons for swapping out the Mac for a Nucleus One (although the N1 wouldn’t be the only suitable replacement).
N1 should arrive today. Hoping someone can give me exact steps to set it up. I’m not a big “techie” so will post the questions and hope i get answers:
I need to install internal drive - do I do this before anything else?
Do I then do the migration from my Mac process?
I read about license transfer issues…any suggestions?
Do i transfer my own music library via web ui to the internal drive of the N1? Still confused how I get music files onto the internal drive.
ARC i found the port on my dream machine that points to the current Mac for ARC to work. Can I just change the ip address to the N1 once on the network?
Any other tips/tricks would be great.Thansk
You only access the web interface for stopping the Roon Server. The copying of the files is done as described on the page that’s linked from step 3 number III, that is: