Anyone have a Roon Nucleus One? Your experience positive or negative?

I found the nucleous to be a great roon end piont, just an ok streamer. much better out there for the hardware but your not buying a nucleous for the hardware, but for the software.

open one up and you may not like what you see inside. big empty box....I have a hard time paying what they want for one considering there is next to nothing inside the box.  hardware wize not imprssive. 

Thanks for sharing everyone. I have a streamer that is Roon ready but really does not have good user software of its own. I was thinking about trying Roon, since some have reported Roon app plays well with a Nucleus rather that the Roon app on a computer.

@2psyop I love Roon’s interface.

I had a spare, 10+ year old mac mini (I had upgraded the hard drives to SSD, but the CPU was the original), on which I installed Linux and Roon. Good enough to run Roon without any problems. And since I was going to donate it anyway, it didn’t cost anything.

I think pretty much any old Intel hardware will be fast enough, provided you’re not running a lot of Roon’s DSP or something like HQPlayer... The Roon website states "Intel Core i3 with 8GB" as the minimum requirement, whereas my old mac mini has an 8 core i7. These requirements could change in the future, of course.

your not buying a nucleous for the hardware, but for the software.

Indeed. The software is downloadable for free on the Roon website. Spend your money elsewhere in your system.