Found A Roon Core Streamer Only Solution with Top Notch Sound Quality

Looks like a good product.  I ran Roon ROCK on my onw I7 NUC for years and was happy although it is not fanless, I had it acousticly pretty much isolated.  Still I would have preferred fanless.  All that said, a fast cpu isn't really needed for the core as it is processing  mostly in the background.  but it never hurts to have more cpu, more memory, and more ssd.  

I have moved to a Grimm and use the on-board core which is excellent.   At one time I had the Innuos Zenith MK3 and the onboard core was poor.  I felt like they purposely did a poor implementation of roon so that their Sense app sounded better.  

I am a bit surprised you are using it as a streamer as well.  I always placed my core on the network with a seperate high quality streamer.  The Grimm incorporates them into one box but they are still seperate components.

If I was still running my NUC I would jump on one of these for this price.

Jerry

Awesome find with a great price. If I was in the market I would definitely give this a try. Appreciate the share @jbhiller!

I was looking at streamer only solutions and some of the pricing was eye popping, yet there are some highly reviewed and/respect items out there too in the $800-$1500 range. 

What pushed me to get this Nucleus Plus clone was the fact that I could take the Roon Core server off my iMac and back to a dedicated device. I had a NUC a few years back that I built. Its performance was stellar but I ultimately wiped the drive and sold it because it just didn't play consistently well on my network.  Xfinity's network app has some deeper features and I'd check them to find out the NUC would fall off the network all the time. I tried to set it up with a fixed network address too--to no avail. 

At any rate, I think the Nucleus + clone sounds even better than the Lumin when using an external dac.

Highly recommended. Plus, the clone has stayed solidly on my network since install.  Next up is a linear power supply upgrade. 

This machine looks awesome! Congrats! I like that it’s fanless, good parts. definitely get LPS power supply and a good USB cable. 
 

I doubt it.

At one time I had the Innuos Zenith MK3 and the onboard core was poor.  I felt like they purposely did a poor implementation of roon so that their Sense app sounded better.