Roon Nucleus

[sydney]

from where did u get the fanless casing

 

[air870]

Planning to dump my MAC mini as a Roon Core for a NUC or Nucleus. This will be purely used for as a Roon Core with excessive DSP usage and to play DSD256 files, throught a seperate Roon Endpoint.
Needed feedback on
1. How easy is it for a noob to manage with a NUC and Roon ROCK
2. Any difference in performance, SQ etc

Any suggestion would be helpful

Not difficult at all to set up and use the Nuc. The Nucleus exceeded my budget so I went in for a i7 Nuc from amazon. Loaded Roon Rock and its my Core. The Roon site is very helpful and informative on each step to take
I used to have a macmini as my Roon Core, however it being a headless computer, has many programs running in default, only some of these you can disable. 50k for the Nuc. 1.7l for a Nucleus. The advantage of the Nucleus is that it has built-in storage. It's insufficient for me .I have two 5TB external hard drives plugged in plus a 32gb thumb size pendrive which is connected to the USB 2 slot at the bottom, exclusive as a Backup location ( for Roon attributes).

 

[kvm]

from where did u get the fanless casing

Got it long back from AliExpress; got the complete mini PC- not just the casing
Eglobal mini PC