Why did I drag my feet? Roon Core move.

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About a month ago I was discussing my digital set-up with the NA dCS GM. I noted that I had transitioned from Sooloos to Roon over the past 9 months for my 2-channel room listening sessions. I had been considering the switch from my Meridian 808v6 to a dCS solution but was waiting for the MQA update. During our conversation it came up that I was hardwired (ethernet) to my DAC but I was running Roon Core wirelessly on my MacBook Pro. He said I was giving up SQ with this set-up and suggested I install a hardwire NUC to run Roon Rock or Server. I couldn't believe that I was missing and was in no hurry to make a decision as to go with a Intel NUC, wait for Roon's Nucleus solution or purchase one of the "authorized" products listed on the Roon site. Well last week I finally decided to go with a Sonictransporter i5 (the i7 would have been overkill since I will not be running any DSP functions). It arrived yesterday and after a few self inflicted hic-ups I am up and running this afternoon. :yikes: I have had the best day of listening to my set-up that I can remember. The difference in Tidal via Roon with the Sonictrasnporter running Roon Server is almost shocking. I haven't had time to listen to many of my burned CD's as the migration of my music from the USB drive to the 2TB drive I had built into the Sonictransporter has been painfully slow. (In fact it just finished after 7 hours as I was typing this)

I know there are many alternate solutions for running Roon Core/Server/Rock but I will confirm you are missing something if you leave it on your laptop.

I can state I do not remember hearing better digital SQ anywhere than what I have heard the last few hours.
 
Sir,
Thank you for this post. And congratulations!

You mentioned you considered other solutions, yet chose the sonic transporter. What else did you consider and what made you ultimately decide on the sonic transporter?
 
Great to hear, Jim.

A dealer on the forum has been making fun of my AppleTV setup for like 3 years now - I expect a similar increase in quality post-NUC :)
 
I could be wrong on this, but if we aim for a fanless setup, other than SonicTransporter or waiting for Roon Nucleus, there does not seem to be readily available reasonably-priced options, other than doing custom build using fanless NUC enclosures or other sophisticated DIY builds.
 
Agree on all accounts. Nucleus should be launching end of this week, early next week.

It's about time!


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wklie said:
I could be wrong on this, but if we aim for a fanless setup, other than SonicTransporter or waiting for Roon Nucleus, there does not seem to be readily available reasonably-priced options, other than doing custom build using fanless NUC enclosures or other sophisticated DIY builds.
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Peter I also considered the Salk Śtream III which was a couple hundred more but there was one review that compared the Sonictranspoter vs a Intel Nuc and the Small green computer machine won out. The options start reasonable and go up considerably
 
Mike said:
Agree on all accounts. Nucleus should be launching end of this week, early next week.

It's about time!


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Mike I got tired of waiting for something that was originally due out in August. Also when you add in the about 2TB of storage the price was going to get up there.
 
KeithR said:
Great to hear, Jim.

A dealer on the forum has been making fun of my AppleTV setup for like 3 years now - I expect a similar increase in quality post-NUC :)
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Ermm... TosLink is so.... 1999 :)
Get with the program, buddy! hehehe


cheers,
alex
 
Putting a ROCK in the closet works great for me! My dealer setup the ROCK after I gave him the built NUC I got from Amazon. I have the ROCK upsampling all pcm to 352.8/384 feeding my Rossini. I have my complaints about the Roon interface though, and some of its tagging, but overall with the ROCK I am exceeding pleased.
 
still-one said:
Peter I also considered the Salk Śtream III which was a couple hundred more but there was one review that compared the Sonictranspoter vs a Intel Nuc and the Small green computer machine won out. The options start reasonable and go up considerably
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Anyway you go in this direction, it appears to me with SonicTransporter i5 that one is always in the reasonably priced area?
 
rbbert said:
Anyway you go in this direction, it appears to me with SonicTransporter i5 that one is always in the reasonably priced area?
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Yeah at just under $1500 with a 2TB internal drive I thought it was a bargain. Even more so now with the SQ improvement it has provided. The i7 version was about to $800 more an unnecessary unless you were going to using DSP functionality in Roon,
 
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