In the Knowledge Base of the ROCK i only read about recommendations for NUC i7 (large & medium libraries) and NUC i3 (small libraries).
I thought about purchasing a NUC7 i5 BNH and asked myself why there is no recommendation and components for the NUC i5. Is there someting wrong with the i5?
It would be so helpful if someone could make a check on the components i am planing to buy:
Nothing wrong with the i5 – I think it’s the best of the bunch (low-powered, silent yet powerful). Upsampling to high DSD rates (think 512 or multiple streams) could be critical, as would large libraries (think, arbitrarily, 150.000+ tracks).
If the above does not apply, your component list looks fine. I’ve been running a 6th gen NUCi5 for about 1,5 years now and couldn’t be happier.
I’m also running the 7th gen i5 for the reasons mentioned above - no problems to report. As a point of reference, upsampling to 192KHz from 44.1 runs @ somewhere between 12x and 16x (as shown on signal path) on a single zone.
