Roon Nucleus versus Small Green Computer

[dabassgoesboomboom]

I have skimmed this thread and I have a question: there is a lot of focus on “high performance”.
Why do you think a high performance computer is a good thing?

Hi Anders

Is it a possibility that you wouldn’t have your i3 Nucleus crashing issues with a more powerful i7 Nucleus+ ?

Nucleus Roon Core death spiral

@danny A bit more detail on a few Nucleus crashes. Happened all within minutes — more precisely, three crashes followed each other without successfully playing between them. I wanted to compare 24/192 and MQA 24/192 Versions of the same album (Coltrane’s Crescent). I had played 2’40” of the Crescent track. Hit the MQA version, selected the Crescent track, Add Next, skip to next, pointed to about 2’20” into the progress (all this before any music started), and it crashed. This time the OS cra…

‘Less is more’ always sounds great until it bites you in the bum

I’m not at all suggesting that’s related to your crashes by the way.

For the record I do serious DSP and my NUC i7 ROCK (same inside guts as the Nucleus+) has never crashed…