Roon Nucleus verses Apple Mac Mini M1

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See this thread to see why processing speed doesn’t necessarily measure what you think it does:

MQA processing speed slower on ROCK than same NUC running Windows (and slower than NAS)

I have two NUC8BEB’s, one running ROCK the other Win 10. I’ve also recently installed Roon on a Synology 1520+. ROCK has been my regular core and I’ve always noticed when streaming MQA from TIDAL that I see a processing speed at the top of the signal path, typically in the 50-60x range. It starts much higher but then drops quickly and plateaus. I was a bit surprised recently when, on playing the same content via the 1520+, that the processing speed in the signal path briefly started in the high…