Roon Nucleus as a Streamer

adasdad  Great post, thanks, but I'm I ready this correctly? You and your dealer are using the Nucleus only, as a music server, then I presume, USB to your DAC and that's it?

Excellent feedback & advice, thanks very much to all of you!

I wish only to be digital but I think I have to try and figure out if I even need Roon. Yes, I have used it in the past, and yes, it's a nice feature, but it adds lots of additional costs just to listen to a few songs on Tidal or Qobuz. 

Maybe just a good DAC, a decent server that is Roon Ready, the I could always sign up for Roon down the road.

big_greg - I am planning on using an SPL pre-amplifier that has an on-board DAC, which I have not heard yet, but from my understanding most built-in DACs can be greatly improved upon. Once I give it a listen I will make that call, but most likely I will be upgrading the DAC. 

The question is then, how good are the DACs in the streamer combos? 

lwong - Thank you for sharing. To you all as well.

@big_greg - Thank you, I will heed your advice and source out a better alternative to the Node 2 and most likely the Nucleus as well.

audioman58 - It seem that Small Green Computer is a popular solution for streaming digital so I may very well give this a shot, but $4K in digital cables, WOW!

I went to your system page but couldn't seem to locate your digital components. Would you mind listing them for me here, including you cables? Thanks.

big_greg - Thanks Greg. I tried to pull up your system, but it wouldn't load for me? I just wanted to check it out.

Off the subject, when you reply on these thread how do you get the @ in front of the members handle when you reply, like this:

@big_greg

I do like the idea of SGC option as the Sonic Transporter is a Roon core, that allows you to connect optically to your DAC rather than USB, thus giving you complete galvanic isolating, in turn giving you the best black background, I would think.

This is a much more costly option than Nucleus direct to DAC. Without out hearing it first, I'm not sure if it's worth the additional costs. Maybe more money should be spent on a better quality DAC?

@big_greg Hey, it worked! Thanks for the tip.

Awesome system Greg, my dream DAC!