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Found A Roon Core Streamer Only Solution with Top Notch Sound Quality

I bought a "poor man's" clone of a Nuclues Plus Roon Server from fellow member located in Poland.  See https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisbcb0a-roon-labs-poor-man-s-nucleus-music-servers-docks

The seller is super knowledgeable. The whole transaction was flawless. 

The sound is exactly what I was looking for. I recently have a Lumin T3 in house ($5k product) and liked the higher quality streaming. The DAC in the Lumin is really great too, but I prefer my external LTA Aero (NOS, ladder).  What's more, $5k feels steep for the Lumin given its wonky software and weirdly cheap dot matrix screen. 

So I've been on the lookout and researching standalone streamers. 

Adam's Nucleus Plus clone is actually higher spec'd than Roon's model. 

The unit looks even better in person. It's discrete. Solidly built. DEAD quiet (no fan). 

I have no affiliation with Adam other than being a first time, happy purchaser of the "poor pan's Nucleus Plus."  

If you are in the market for dedicated streamer that is also a dedicate Roon Core, check this product out.  Highly recommended. 

PS I'm going to put a linear power supply on it next to see what will happen. 

jbhiller

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Looks like a good product.  I ran Roon ROCK on my onw I7 NUC for years and was happy although it is not fanless, I had it acousticly pretty much isolated.  Still I would have preferred fanless.  All that said, a fast cpu isn't really needed for the core as it is processing  mostly in the background.  but it never hurts to have more cpu, more memory, and more ssd.  

I have moved to a Grimm and use the on-board core which is excellent.   At one time I had the Innuos Zenith MK3 and the onboard core was poor.  I felt like they purposely did a poor implementation of roon so that their Sense app sounded better.  

I am a bit surprised you are using it as a streamer as well.  I always placed my core on the network with a seperate high quality streamer.  The Grimm incorporates them into one box but they are still seperate components.

If I was still running my NUC I would jump on one of these for this price.

Jerry

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