ROON NUCLEUS (REV B)

Pre owned. In good condition. Shows very minor signs of wear on the top. Includes manual and original packaging.

The Roon Nucleus serves as the core of the Roon music system, acting as a server designed to manage the user’s entire music library, from local hard drives to NAS devices and streaming services, allowing playback on any audio device in the home. By connecting it to the network and storage devices, and installing the Roon apps on iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows, listeners can control and play their music across a wide range of devices, including AirPlay, Sonos, Roon Ready, Devialet, KEF, Meridian, Squeezebox, Bluesound, and numerous USB DACs.

The Nucleus is a powerful, completely fanless server, powered by Roon OS, a lightweight operating system optimized solely for music management and playback. Roon provides a multiroom, multiuser audio platform built to the exacting standards of audiophiles, offering features such as bit-perfect playback, DSD support, PCM upsampling, multichannel handling, and signal path visualization.

Beyond playing digital music files from local drives and network storage, the Nucleus acts as an intelligent music library organizer. Unlike traditional systems that display music as simple lists, Roon provides an immersive and informative experience, using artist credits, relationships between artists, genres, lyrics, concert dates, artwork, and more, enabling a richer and more instructive exploration of your music. It can also read iTunes libraries and integrate with streaming services like TIDAL and QOBUZ, cleaning metadata and enhancing the user interface for a more complete experience.

The software ensures uncompromising audio quality, offering bit-perfect playback of both lossless and lossy files, including high-resolution PCM and DSD content. Additional features such as crossfade and volume normalization make it extremely versatile. Roon can generate smart radios based on the personal library, creating automatic playlists from an artist, genre, or label, providing more spontaneous and themed listening. It also supports the MQA format, delivering high-quality audio with minimal file size, fully integrated with both TIDAL and QOBUZ in the Roon interface.

As a multiroom audio system, Roon allows different music to be played in each room or the same music throughout the home, recognizing a wide variety of connected audio devices. Unlike traditional multiroom systems, it does not restrict the user to a single brand, supporting an open ecosystem that ranges from small Wi-Fi speakers to high-end audiophile streamers.

Technical specifications:

• Processor: Intel Core™ i3
• RAM: 4 GB
• Music library: up to approximately 10,000 albums; 100,000 tracks
• Internal storage: 1 TB SSD
• External ports: 2x USB 3.0 (Type A), 2x HDMI (Type A), 1x Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ45)
• Internal slot: 1x 2.5" slot for SATA SSD/HDD
• DSP functions: equalizer, crossfeed, delay, upsampling, room correction (functions may be limited under high load)
• Dimensions (W x H x D): 267 x 61 x 267 mm
• Weight: 3.2 kg