Hi, I like to exchange on my Nucleus the i3 processor with an i5 or i7 Processor. I know I will loose any warranty. Do you know if this will work. Reason I have sometimes drop outs if I upsample to 768khz or DSD. The Processor usage went down to nearly 1, normally it is between 4-6. I have only one zone and only DSP volume control activated. My library has 18000 tracks. The Nucleus has the Serial #54B203831BDA. Any other recommendations to fix my drop outs?
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Netgear Network Switch, AVM 9500 DSL Router, Silent Angel Bonn N8 for Nucleus and Streamer, DAC e.g..
Either get a faster computer (choose a CPU with very fast single-core performance, rather than one with many slower cores) or, IMHO, don’t choose pointless upsample values. All that upsampling to 768 kHz really does is create lots of zeroes. Pushing any possible filter distortion into inaudible areas is achieved even by 96 kHz.
The processor in a Nucleus is soldered to the motherboard, i.e., there is no socket, so it’s not possible to replace the processor. Moreover, it is unlikely that you’ll find a replacement motherboard for a Nucleus nowadays, since the product is no longer manufactured.
Thanks, and happy new year.
I have reduce the upsampling to 192khz and the processor has than mainly > 30x.
But I still have a delay between two tracks from 2 up to 20 sec. Doesn’t matter if the track comes from the local SSD in my Nucleus or if I stream it from Qobuz.
The DAC is connected via usb with my Nucleus. I have no idea where the delay is coming from.
That’s a different problem (not Nucleus performance) and it shouldn’t be like this. To get official support for this, open a support ticket by clicking here → Support. Then click the big Get Help button.