Roon Nucleus Plus Network Streamer: How-to Guide | Moon Audio

Drew Baird, P.E. , CEO & Founder of Moon Audio, opened up a Roon Nucleus+ to explain how the music server works, the Roon Software and to show you how to install a hard drive.

Watch this and learn more about the Nucleus & Nucleus + features in our video.

[JohnstonLowryYTu]

A few things pertaining to some of the comments. It's our brains that hear music. Some of us have ears more attuned to music and hear subtleties that others can't. Secondly: so much depends on the quality of equipment you are using. Sound quality is determined by the quality of engineering and the quality of one's hearing—not digits. In analogue terms: and remember all digits end up in analogue for music: just listen to the difference between a top-flight record deck and a basic one. Of course: if your hearing or mind won't facilitate hearing the difference then you possibly won't hear the difference. Likewise: different rooms and halls or theatres all affect sound. We're all different, thank goodness. For me I can hear so much more using the Roon not to mention the performance quotient.

[nevinzavell]

One small thing, it's not a firewire at the end, it's thunderbolt 3

[derrickgarcia]

I want to use my Mac mini as a server. I want to use roon to play Qobuz. I have a McIntosh c2600 with internal DAC. Any advice?

[nick]

an i5 pc with an m.2 drive for software (256gb is enough) and a 1tb or a 2tb ssd drive works perfectly - as a pc and roon server. Instant music control using an ipad

[johnratcliffe]

How does Roon OS compare to the Sonic Orbiter OS on my VortexBox for audio quality?

[guyseide]

yeah i agree with the rest of the fellas .. Roon got my money on the app cause its dope ... but I dont need this crap so many other cheaper alternatives ! Good video though

[ljuboizsiska]

If you have a Ps audio DAC you still need something that will run Core.

[David-fmff]

Does roon output master mqa on Linux with fill unfold?

[Paul-drtq]

Enjoyable video but I'm not seeing the logic spending £1, 500 or £2, 500 on one of these things when I can install roon on my laptop/tablet and buy a QNAP/Synology with 4TB SSDs that will do exactly the same for considerably less!

[grade]

The Roons "Core" software wouldn't download to my Ipad. It only downloaded to my PC which sucks.

[rbnjr]

what is the largest internal hard drive that can be installed

[baronofgreymatter]

How the heck do you connect it to an external dac?

[rbnjr]

this device appears to be a type of computer, how does it not produce noise?

[supersonicboy]

Roon hasn’t worked for last month since Catalina update when reading internal and external drives. Lots of frustration in the Roon forum and gone back you CDs. This can only happen again. Roon have been appalling and no fix on the horizon. Not replying when I asked for a refund.

[SaintVacuum]

It's a good thing that Firewire port isn't connected to it's not Firewire. It's a Thunderbolt port. Thunderbolt3 from the looks of it. It's even labelled (luckily for you guys) as a Thunderbolt port. The price of a Nucleus+ is obscene for what the buyer receives for his nearly $3000 to make it all that much worse, you guys can't even figure out which ports are on it. Yep....makes ME want to drop big money.

[Nonsense]

The Network Jack on the rear of the unit is called an RJ-45 it's an 8 wire Jack also referred to as Ethernet. CAT5 (10-100Mbs data Rates) Cables are no longer Manufactured, that standard is over 15 years old. CAT 5e ( e Means Extended to 1GB data rate), CAT6 provides up to 100m/333Ft 1GB, 10Gb up to 180Ft. The Cost differential between CAT5e 24AWG and CAT6 23AWG is very small for a 1000Ft Box of cable! I would never install CAT5e inside your home or office CAT5e when the cost of CAT6 is not a lot more money.

[LD-bvpm]

The difference between the servers? Well the Nucleus is a rip-off and the Nucleus+ is an incredible ripoff lol.

[sebastianferrerramis]

The worse thing you can buy, is just a piece of garbage, i regreat to buy it, is really a waste of money, 9 times out of ten is not working properly!