Name: Roon Nucleus Audio Server, Black
SKU: YXYUY 27477
Availability: InStock

Full Description

Nucleus is the centre 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.

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 optimised 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.

As well as distributing music throughout your home, Nucleus also offers the very finest performance possible when connected to a USB DAC. A computer source has never sounded this good before.

The Roon Nucleus Plus Server now comes with a free 1 year subscription to Roon.

Made By Roon

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.

Simply The Best

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.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Built For Sound Quality

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.

Developed With Intel

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.

Storage

Internal 2.5″ SATA SSD

External USB drives

Network storage (NAS)

Audio Outputs

Network audio streamers

USB DACs, speakers, and amplifiers

HDMI (stereo and multi-channel)

Hundreds of devices from everyone who’s anyone in the world of HiFi.

Manages your music stored on USB hard drives, NAS, and streamed content from TIDAL and Qobuz
Runs Roon OS and is controlled by the Roon apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows
Streams music to Sonos, AirPlay, Google, Roon Ready, Roon Tested and many other audio devices
Silent design with no fans or moving parts
Requires a Roon subscription
Roon OS boasts a string of features and enhancements that are only available to Nucleus customers

Multi Award Winning:

Hi-Fi News

“It offers a solid platform on which your chosen DAC can strut its stuff. Its combination of style, joined-up thinking and sheer user appeal makes this an intriguing addition to any ‘computer audio’ system.”

Hi-Fi Choice

“The Nucleus+ offers is peerless handling of large music libraries, coupled with a top-notch browsing experience that means you will almost certainly feel compelled to make considerable use of it.”

HiFi Pig

“The Nucleus+ provides an elegant, unparalleled plug and play one-box solution to digital library management, digital signal processing and multi room capability.”

Essential Install

“Roon remains the most compelling music service for serious music enthusiasts and the Nucleus+ makes the concept super-slick, very fast and seriously robust.”

Hi-Fi Plus

“…the Nucleus is easily recommendable as it’s small, easy to accommodate and simply allows the software to work at its optimum.”

Hi-Fi World

“Roon’s Nucleus+ music server packs power for a home network.”

Library Capacity	Over 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks)
Multi-Room Streaming	Over 6 Simultaneous Zones
DSP Capability	All DSP functions available in the PCM domain. Certain combinations of functions using DSD source or destination formats, upsampling, or multichannel processing may not be possible.
Input Voltage	12-19V DC
I/O Ports	2 x USB 3.0 (can be used for hard drive and/or DAC) 2 x HDMI (stereo and multi-channel audio output)
Internal Drive	2.5” SATA SSD or HDD up to 15mm drive height
Dimensions	267mm (W) x 267mm (D) x 61mm (H)
Home Automation Features	Control4 and Crestron Drivers
Weight	3.2kg (excluding power supply)
Accessories	Power Supply / Quick-Start Guide