Runs Roon Core very nicely. (I strongly recommend spending a few extra $ to get dual-channel RAM.)
If you’re interested, buy one before they run out of stock (I think they’ve been out-of-stock for the vast majority of the time they’ve been nominally in production).
problem with many of these SBC’s is cases that look the part. fun to tinker with but I have several MOCK machines and a NUC ROCK that I have used over time. My latest MOCK was a Win10 running i7-7700 Fanless and that does everything I need just fine.
That’s excellent performance for an x86 sbc. I was waiting for the atom based rock pi x to fool around with, but that odroid looks like it does the trick beautifully.
Running to 3 endpoints simultaneously is no problem. I do that regularly (3xnegligible=negligible).
As you can see from the graphs above, upsampling to 32/768 PCM (a single-core operation in Roon) takes about 50% of a core.
I haven’t tried any convolution filters (the only filter I use regularly is volume-leveling), but I would expect that those would look similar.
FWIW, here are the benchmarks for the i3-5010U and the J4115. If you want to run multiple endpoints simultaneously, you probably want the 4-core J4115, rather than the 2-core i3.
Undoubtably. There is the matter of the Realtek drivers, and having to deal with full-scale linux rather than something taylor-made that’s supported was my point point. Someone who knows what they’re doing (even a little bit) - as long as the price is OK, and you like what it brings (starting with fantastic electrical economy, as well as the pleasure of messing around), give the Odroid serious consideration. At the same time, if Roon is all you’re going to do with it and that you’re OK with spending a bit more, remember that an ODroid + case + PSU can be as expensive as a similarly configured NUC8i3…
Odroid H2 + 16 GB dual channel RAM + 256GB NVMe SSD + case + power supply cost me just around $200.
OTOH, as you say, the NUC is officially supported, and you can run ROCK on it.
Indeed.
With the H2+ (not the H2 that I have), you need to install the Realtek drivers to get the ethernet to work. Those drivers are/will be in the Linux 5.9 kernel. So this is only a temporary impediment.
That and importer margins, I’d guess - MSRP ex tax on the H2+ is 140 Euro. I’d suspect the insane UPU Chinese shipping tarif thing should apply to Europe as well, though it might not be as dysfunctional as it is with North America. In any case, someone’s taking a cut somewhere along the way.
Hardkernel is a South Korean company. They ship from a warehouse near the airport in Seoul. The last board I ordered from them took 37 hours from when it shipped to when it arrived on my doorstep in the US. With the time-zone difference, that’s same-day delivery .
Just FYI, I’ve been playing around with Convolution (FIR) filters, produced with DRC-FIR on a Raspberry Pi with a miniDSP Umik. The Unix workflow makes it trivial to produce convolution filters for all the required sample rates (44.1k, 48k, 88.2k, 96k and 192k).
The additional workload on the Odroid H2 is negligible (with or without the convolution filter enabled, 88.2kHz ≈ 20% of a core).