I've been running a Roon, ROCK, Intel NUC 11 (11PAHi7), with a 20TB USB HD, a 500GB SSD, 32GB of memory and a >200k library 24/7, for over 3-yrs., minus a single hiccup. I use it for my 2-channel EMM Labs DAC audio room and to distribute multi-room music to a Marantz AV pre-pro based HT and to 3-Audio Pro A10 WiiM wi-fi speakers. For my purposes, Roon just works!
Replacing Roon - What Should I get?
I'm tired of Roon having brain farts. I have an original Roon Nucleus and have updated and augmented the Memory. This helped for a bit. But now, I keep having to reboot the darn thing.
It's not my network. I have checked it out and everything in the house works fine.
Here is the setup. A direct fiber optic link goes to the Router. Then ethernet to Roon from the Router. This way I get Roon to talk with the setup upstairs. I have an 35 foot ethernet cable that runs through the walls directly from the router into my dCS Lina.
I want to replace the Roon. I am thinking about an Innuos Stream. Just need a streamer that can hold Roon/Tidal. Don't need a DAC as the dCS does that quite well. I have a SSD in the Nucleus that holds a ton of my music that I want to move over.
Thoughts on what to replace the Roon with? Innuos (Stream) always get bandied about. I hear about Arender as well. I don't want to get an updated Roon.
I also wonder about deleting and reinstalling the Roon App on my iPads.
Thanks in Advance
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I should have added that I have Roon's DSP functions disabled. |
@mdalton I think you could be totally correct. It is old. Though I upgraded the memory, it did nothing for the processing speed. My internal SSD has lots of files on it, but not as much as some have mentioned here. |
I have a Samsung SSD mounted inside the Nucleus One. My database contains albums = 2700 Tracks = 30,300 Roon states Nucleus One handles up to 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks). So I’m nowhere near the capacity. I do not use DSP and I have Background Audio Analysis Speed = Throttled On-Demand Audio Analysis Speed = Off I never power the Nucleus One down - it runs 24/7. I now noticed better performance after a hard reboot. And as of last night I started shutting it down. |
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