Roon Nucleus Titan Upgrade Offer

@kennyc and @jmeyers The more I investigated the Titan, the less I was interested in making the change.  Somewhere I read that Roon's agreement with Intel (for the NUC that the Nucleus & Nucleus+ are based on) had ended.  The Roon website seemed to be advertising that the Titan was "faster", which I presume was the normal improvement in processor and memory speeds.  I was struck by how one could reserve a Nucleus but could not purchase a Titan on their website.  I wonder if, when Harman was purchased by Samsung, that the mother company was transitioning all the manufacturing to their factories.  I don't know that for a fact, but thought it was strange that they were offering an upgrade for a product that you could not make a direct purchase for.  My Nucleus+ sounds awesome, so I'll stay with that for now.

@ejr1953 ​@jmeyers Thanks for your insights

With that kind of money, you can build your own fanless PC with better performance, and less electrical interference... I spent $2500 to make a fanless PC with a linear power supply, 16 CPU cores, 32 GB of RAM, SSD storage, and a Femto USB card. My PC will surely outperform any offering from Roon including the Titan. It could play DSD512 files, along with convolution filers, and Parametric EQ... basically, any advanced functionality from Roon can be run. 

as a company with direct experience with roon's  hardware as well as most of the major servers out there the titan would never be my first choice the first nucleus was a cheapie nuc in a nicer case 

compare this to an Innous or 432evo servers:

Innous uses a massive internal high end power supply 

432EVO uses two external sbooster power supplies 

432EVO also uses a separate clock and USB card as well

so  compare the Titan  probably uses a wall wart like the nucleus,

isolated USB not apparently,

clock technology also seems missing.

roon makes great software they don't know anything about designing stat of the art hardware

dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

former Innous dealer

current 432EVO dealer