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

@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.

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.

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. 

Yes!!!  I've owned my Nucleus one for over three years now and I'm still thrilled with it and will be for the foreseeable future.  It's a brilliant piece of gear.  Happy listening.