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Should I get a Roon Nucleus?

Hey folks,

I just discovered Roon after using Bluesound for years. I have the new Bluesound Node wired with a Cat7 Ethernet cable. I love the Roon interface. My node streams to both my Focal Arche and Rotel RA-1592. I just use Qobuz at this point (recently ditched Tidal). I have an iMac M1 as my Roon core currently. What do you think the Nucleus or the Nucleus+ would accomplish in my system? Thanks!

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fuzztone
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Nothing to gain from what I see.

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based on your equipment list i would tend to agree with @fuzztone 

but for not too much more money, you could get an innuos zen mini mk3 (used, new ones are no longer made), that can run as the core machine... then use its rca digital out to feed a nice downstream dac

will be a nice upgrade over the node, especially if you improve the rest of your gear

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fuzztone
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I agree with @jjss49 ​​​​​​.

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I agree with @testrun. I switched over from an iMAC core host to a SGC i5. Stabilized the entire environment and got a nice little SQ bump with a deeper sound stage. Keep your BS as an endpoint.  Then later on add a LPS to the SGC.

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@jbuhl bump in sound quality from only changing roon core? I get the stability part though….

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