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Roon Nucleus+ Streamer Unboxing | Moon Audio
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Stream and manage your music library with the Roon Nucleus Music Server, a multi-room, multi-us… More details
Roon Nucleus+ Streamer Unboxing | Moon Audio
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
Roon Nucleus Rev B Home Music Streaming Server
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Stream and manage your music library with the Roon Nucleus Music Server, a multi-room, multi-user music server. It connects directly to your network and can be controlled via your phone, tablet, or computer. No technical configuration is necessary.
Requires subscription to Roon software.
Nucleus is the center of your Roon music system. It’s the housekeeper, the traffic cop, and the brain that takes care of the music in your life. Using Nucleus, Roon manages all your music – on hard drives, NAS, and streaming content – and allows you to play it on all the audio devices around your home. Nucleus is the best way to run Roon at any price.
Roon Nucleus and Nucleus+ now come with a complimentary one-year subscription to the Roon Software Service. (That's a $120 value for just $61 more than previously offered.)
What's Roon?
Your one-stop-shop for a curated music library, Roon connects your existing music files with content from your streaming services and connects it all to photos, bios, reviews, lyrics, and concert dates. It puts all of your music in one searchable place.
Roon is a music management and listening solution that takes a very different approach to interacting with your music. Instead of seeing a spreadsheet-like view of your music (as with iTunes and almost all other media systems), Roon provides a very rich non-list based experience, using credits, artist relationships, genres, lyrics, concert/tour dates, artwork, and more to allow for an informative navigation and exploration of your library.
Roon manages digital music files collected on hard drives and networked storage. It can also watch your iTunes library, and optionally integrate with the music streaming service TIDAL.
The brain behind the entire Roon experience is the Roon Core. Every aspect of Nucleus — hardware, operating system, and software — was developed to provide a silent, high-performance, power-efficient Roon Core, by the same team that created Roon.
Nucleus is the easiest and fastest way to get your Roon system running. No computer or networking skills required. You just take it home, plug it in, and download Roon apps for your mobile devices and computers. Nucleus keeps itself current with automatic updates.
Just plug Nucleus into your network, connect your hard drives, download Roon remote apps (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) and you’ll be ready to play music using a wide variety of audio devices, including AirPlay, Sonos, Roon Ready, Devialet, KEF, Meridian, Squeezebox, and a huge variety of USB DACs.
Aside from being a powerful, fanless music server, what sets Nucleus apart is that it’s powered by Roon OS – a fast and lightweight operating system optimized to do just one thing: browse and play music. Roon is a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform built to the exacting standards of audiophiles, so it offers features like bit-perfect playback, DSD, and PCM upsampling, multichannel playback, and signal path display.
Roon software can be used on many platforms, including Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs, as well as NAS devices and a variety of media servers. Each of those platforms has its benefits and shortcomings, but none of them achieves a perfect balance between ease of use, raw performance, and audiophile design.
Based on feedback from audio dealers and custom integrators, Nucleus was designed to do just that... provide the best Roon experience in each of these areas.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint-Éxupery
Roon has enjoyed tremendous success among computer audiophiles and other tech-savvy enthusiasts, but Nucleus was created to reach everyone who loves music. It is a product which requires nearly no computer knowledge or networking skill. You literally take it home, plug it in, and control it with the Roon Remote app for iPad, iPhone, or Android device (and of course the Roon app for Mac/Windows). Because it's running Roon, Nucleus finds the audio devices on your network and makes it easy to stream to them.
Unlike simple music player apps, Roon is designed to make use of modern computing power (and the more of it the better). So we've worked with Intel to develop Nucleus on their highest-performance NUC platform, which means that using Roon with Nucleus feels incredibly fast, and there's horsepower to spare for handling large music libraries, multi-room streaming, and digital signal processing.
In the white paper, you'll learn what design decisions led to the choice of CPU, boot media, internal storage options, and more.
Nucleus has no fans, spinning disks, or moving parts of any kind, and its minimal operating system is tuned for delivering high-performance audio. Whether you put it in your listening room, on your desk, or in a rack, you can be confident you will be getting the best sound from any music server.
The rich Roon experience requires modern computing power, and the more the better. We worked with Intel to develop Nucleus to support Roon now and in the future. It has horsepower to spare for large music libraries, multi-room streaming, and DSP.
Rather than a desktop or server operating system like Windows, a Linux distribution, or a system-builder tool, Nucleus uses a truly bespoke operating system. Roon OS is an optimized Linux-based operating system developed by Roon Labs to provide the best reliability and performance for what Roon does – networking, storage, and fast database access – and nothing else.
We've seen our share of audio products with network capabilities, and often it's clear that they were designed without network security in mind. Learn what's unique about the way Roon OS powers Nucleus, protects itself from "enterprising hobbyists", and ensures reliable and robust operation even in extraordinary network conditions.
Nucleus is for people who love music, so it has to stand up to the scrutiny of the toughest customers out there. Designing Nucleus without fans, spinning disks, or other moving parts – while maintaining the level of computing performance Roon requires – brought some interesting thermal and mechanical challenges. Learn why Nucleus is the best way to run Roon whether you have a top-spec listening room, a home theater, or a dedicated multi-room equipment rack.
Roon is a music management and listening solution that takes a very different approach to interacting with your music. Instead of seeing a spreadsheet-like view of your music (as with iTunes and almost all other media systems), Roon provides a very rich non-list based experience, using credits, artist relationships, genres, lyrics, concert/tour dates, artwork, and more to allow for an informative navigation and exploration of your library.
Roon manages digital music files collected on hard drives and networked storage. It can also watch your iTunes library, and optionally integrate with the music streaming service TIDAL.
Roon cleans up your music library, upgrades the metadata associated with your music, and provides a user interface that is far richer than anything else out there. Roon makes music exploration and discovery both informative and fun.
Roon provides no-compromise audio perfection. Bit-perfect playback of lossy and lossless file formats, including high-resolution audio content (PCM and DSD). Additional conveniences such as crossfading and volume normalization make it suitable for both concentrated listening sessions as well as social events.
Roon manages your audio renderers (the things that make sound). Whether they be built-in sound devices, like your laptop's audio output, a USB connected DAC, or even networked audio devices.
Roon is an application suite that must be installed. It is not a website. It runs on Macs, Windows PCs, and Tablets, Linux PCs, Android Tablets, Apple iPads, and iPhones. Support is provided on the Community Site, and membership details and configuration are provided on the Roon website.
Roon uses your music files, Internet Radio streams, and content from the TIDAL streaming music service, but doesn't come with any music.
The Roon software is constantly being improved and updates are always free of charge to licensed users.
Try Roon for free for 30 days when you purchase any compatible device.
Nucleus |
Nucleus+ |
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| Input voltage |
12-19V DC |
12-19V DC |
| I/O ports |
(2x) USB 3.0 (can be used for hard drive and/or DAC) |
(2x) USB 3.0 (can be used for hard drive and/or DAC) |
| Internal drive |
2.5” SATA SSD or HDD up to 9.5mm drive height |
2.5” SATA SSD or HDD up to 9.5mm drive height |
| Library capacity |
Up to 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks) |
Over 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks) |
| Multi-room streaming |
Up to 6 simultaneous zones |
Over 6 simultaneous zones |
| DSP capability |
All DSP functions available in the PCM domain. |
All DSP functions available. |
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