Newbie here, I’m very interested in the Nucleus. But I’m a bit confused as to how it would ideally be integrated in an audio system. In reading about ideal Roon setup, Sound Quality Rule #1 is “Core and Output on separate devices.” But it seems to me that the Nucleus is designed to be directly c…

Nucleus is designed to be sold alongside the 100 or so Roon Ready networked endpoints that are in the market today. This is how you would install a Nucleus to get the best possible experience. We also decided not to lock down the local ports because we are not jerks, and we expect that some install…

Brain Is it correct that Roon doesn’t allow / can’t do a bridged network (believe it’s an issue working with a Subnet or whatever)? Is this the reason why the Nucleus only comes with one Ethernet Port?

Thanks Brian, Understood. Seems like a good design choice as it allows a lot more flexibility.

[image] Celts88: Is it correct that Roon doesn’t allow / can’t do a bridged network (believe it’s an issue working with a Subnet or whatever)? Is this the reason why the Nucleus only comes with one Ethernet Port? The reason why Nucleus has only one ethernet port is because it’s based on the N…

You could use a device like our microRendu connected to your USB DAC. Another advantage of separate server and plays is you can have the server and spinning drive near your router and away from your listening room. Also you can have multiple players in different rooms of your house.

Thanks for the reply Brian. Ok, so no restraint on number of Ethernet ports. Wasn’t sure as thought Antipodes had a possible issues with Subnets and Roon, hence had to change something in their design and now only one Ethernet port on their new units (I’ve got an Antipodes DS and upgrading soon to…

@Brian Any idea if I’ll be able to stream to a Devialet D400 (speaker setup) via Ethernet in addition to a second DAC (headphone setup) over USB? Any reason to expect better sound quality compared to a MacBook that does this currently?

[image] Celts88: Wasn’t sure as thought Antipodes had a possible issues with Subnets and Roon, hence had to change something in their design and now only one Ethernet port on their new units (I’ve got an Antipodes DS and upgrading soon to their Core model). I’m not aware of this. [image] …

[image] NBD: Any idea if I’ll be able to stream to a Devialet D400 (speaker setup) via Ethernet in addition to a second DAC (headphone setup) over USB? Any reason to expect better sound quality compared to a MacBook that does this currently? We are seeing a fairly noticeable sonic improvement…

It would be great to see (pdf or web) a user manual for the Nucleus? Looks interesting but want to make sure I’d know how to migrate existing library and media without losing edits made to date. Anybody point me in the right direction? Many thanks, M

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