August, is it? @Danny ?
I want one, in spite of having a NUC and a SonicOrbiter.
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
yah, possibly earlier, but august is safe
Why would anyone pay $1200 for the Nucleus when a Mac Mini with i5, 256GB flash (four times more!), 8GB memory (twice) costs $900? and itās a full fledged computer made by Apple
@Ran_Rinat
Horses for courses I guess.
Mac mini is not fanless.
Nucleus runs ROCK a customised os.
You donāt need a full Apple or Windows system to run Roon now.
Nucleus is a turnkey solution and that has huge appeal to non technical buyers.
And yet if you donāt want Nucleus you can just run Roon on a Mac, Windows, Linux pc or indeed on a Qnap, pretty impressive choice I would say.
Russ
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Why buy a Mac Mini when you can buy a NUC with current generation CPU.
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Correct this is right thing to do!
Nucleus isnāt for everyone. There are plenty of DIY PC, Mac and other options but for the folks who just want to plug something in and use it Nucleus clearly has its place. And letās not forget they are all the same under the hood. Packaging and software divide them but essentially they are the same. It is our tribal nature that builds each option up or knocks them down.
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Yes thatās a huge price for me too, indeed. But I am not surprised it is probably not possible to sell it for a price that you could yourself build OEM. There has to be some profit. It is custom made anyway.
I think thatās a concern for someone who is willing to pay that for various reasons mentioned above .
I think what is good about Roon is that, if you want ROCK you can use your existing or DIY NUC. You could install it on Mac or Windows PCā¦ And while doing that you donāt have to compromise on the experience of ROON, thanks god that they donāt oblige you to their own product, which I appreciate. They even did not have to offer ROCK for download since they already have available downloads for nearly all platforms. I also did not find any ROON staff in these forums advertising or exaggerating their own product.
So I appreciate that, I donāt have a NUC but it is nice to know that I can install ROCK on a DIY one and try it.
The people who can afford this stuff easily will buy it as they 1. Can afford it and 2. Value their time differently.
Think about it. You could be enjoying a track day in your Maserati of faffing about with software, something you just donāt want to do, all to save a few Dollars/Pounds you donāt need anyway. Pay people and get on with your life.
Itās brilliant that we mere mortals get the DIY (Destroy it yourself) option for free.
Horses for courses, Chris
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I like that 
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and there are many 60+ with the money to buy ā¬2000/2500 Sonosā plus a subscription for the helpdesk (to rip cdās etc.) and a computerā¦totals ā¬3000
well, there are many 60+, but not that many 60+ that stupid.
this system, or some configuration, interests me.
iām using a pretty simple setup with Roon that is
not matched well, not efficient, in short not allowing me to take full advantage of Roonās capabilities.
my simple desktop setup:
10 yr old laptop(windows) with tidal, microrendu, lps1 power supply, iFi micro iDSD
(upgrading to a Hugo 2 or other shortly)
and Roonā¦ripped cds, but mostly use tidal for streaming.
trialing Roon for 2 months.
i do have to upgrade my laptop over the next few months
but can i just buy the nuc os system and install it into whatever
laptop or desktop i buy?
(say itād buy a quality i7 laptop: dell xps or hp spectre 360).
ā¦or is it better to buy a sonic transporter (i7 quad core 7700)
or a Roon built device with the nuc built in.
trying like many to optimize the sound while being on a budget.
just looking for ideas, options, pleaese
The free ROCK os looks to be a very good option, you could purchase one of the latest generation NUCās either NUC7i5??? or NUC7i7BNH WITH 8gb of memory and an M.2 SSD for around a maximum for the i7 of Ā£600 or $??? and less for the i5 you would have a really powerful dedicated Roon Server.
Russ
ROCK is designed and customized to run on an intel NUC and only a small sample of NUCās at that. Running it on anything else you are own for support and issues that might crop up of break as time goes by. Either get the right hardware for ROCK or just roll your own Linux/Windows/MacOS build as you see fit.
Roon will only support ROCK on platforms the build is designed for.
got itā¦starting to understandā¦
so weāre looking at a separate server and os, specifically for audio, to run Roon
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc.html.
now still wondering if the microrendu, lps1 power supply etc
(and all that āgalvanic isolationā related stuff) are also still needed.
Opting for ROCK vs. any other flavour of Roon has little bearing on this. This article on Sound Quality in the Roon Knowledge Base is still relevant.
Roon Nucleus has space for a 2.5inch SSD, correct? So one could insert, letās say a 2Tb or 4Tb SSD and possibly not need a NAS.
How does it sound with a 2Tb SSD or a 4Tb SSD? Has anybody tested?