Roon Nucleus+ Music Server

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.

Nucleus requires a Roon account with a valid subscription, which you can purchase at roonlabs.com

Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable digital magazine about your collection.

And Roon finds all the same links between your personal files and the millions of tracks available on TIDAL, so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world beyond your collection.

In addition to music browsing, Roon is a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform built to the exacting standards of audiophiles. It offers features like bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel playback, and signal path display.

Roon plays to an number of different types of devices on your home network – Roon Ready, AirPlay, Sonos, Squeezebox, and Meridian – and can be controlled from Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

Features

Manages your music stored on USB hard drives, NAS, and streamed content from TIDAL 

Nucleus supports up to 5 zones streaming simultaneously, a library of almost 120,000 tracks, and basic DSP settings

Runs Roon OS and is controlled by the Roon apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows 

Streams music to Sonos®, AirPlay®, Devialet, KEF, Roon Ready, Meridian, USB, and Squeezebox audio devices 

Silent design with no fans or moving parts

* Requires a Roon subscription

Specifications

Nucleus+

i7 Intel processor

8GB RAM

128GB SSD for Roon OS

2.5″ HDD/SSD internal storage bay (drive not included)

Libraries over 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks)

Multi-room systems up to 6 simultaneous zones

Gigabit Ethernet LAN port, USB 3.0 port x 2. HDMI port x 2

DSP capability: All DSP functions available

Dimensions

Height 0.74m

Width 0.21m

Depth 0.16m

Weight 2.50kg