Would the sound quality on a NUC with Rock be as good as on a Nucleus or an Innuos?

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I had this discussion multiple times on this forum.

Roon has never advertised the Nucleus as offering an SQ advantage. Roon has always advertised the Nucleus as being an appliance which needs little maintenance from the customer.

Anyone who believes different simply doesn’t understand the hardware.

For a laugh, there’s this -

Sound quality of Roon build 537 [retracted claim]

That isn’t the assumption. The truth is that for most releases, including this release, there is nothing in Roon that would change (positively or negatively) the SQ. Taiko web site about the SGM Extreme - " Specifications -Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 10 core – 20 thread CPU’s for 20 cores – 40 threads in total -Twelve 4Gb custom order industrial memory modules for 48Gb in total -Standard storage provisons include 280Gb of PCIe Intel Optane storage for the operating system, 2TB of PCIe stora…