Nucleus or Antipodes CX

[Celts88 (John)]

Roon Nucleus versus Small Green Computer

the Antipodes CX seems like the most thoughtful hardware design.

Except its CPU is quite inadequate for DSP, big libraries, and general snappiness.

As for the CX, just note that the Nucleus/Nucleus+ are built by the team that built Roon, keeping in mind what we have in plan for the future.

For example, later down the road, you may choose to do Room Correction with your system, and the CX migght not get the job done. The N+ absolutely will. The CX is a clock reduced CPU that is already slower to start. I understand Antipodes’ theories about higher clock rates (1.5ghz+), but I don’t buy that reasoning at all. 10 years ago these guys were complaining about 1ghz, and 20 years ago it was about 500mhz.

That will be my suggestion, but full disclosure: I am biased because I made the Nucleus+.

You’re making a lot of comments about the Nucleus, and that’s fine as being fully part of it’s development you should be, but you’re also making a lot of comments about the CX which you weren’t involved with. Maybe you might not be fully up on all it’s capabilities.