Roon Nucleus and Nucleus+ get new look, new features

Roon updates Nucleus and Nucleus+ core servers

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If you want to get serious about digital music, then you may well have heard of Roon. The software delivers a premium music browsing experience, offering a searchable "digital magazine" for your music collection. It's a great way to organise your tunes and find new music, and it works with plenty of 'Roon Ready' devices, such as the B&W Formation range.

Alongside the music software, Roon offers servers around which you can build a multi-room digital music system, bringing with them the benefits of the Roon service on a core designed entirely for the purpose. And now the Roon Nucleus and Nucleus+ servers – "the best way to experience Roon" – have had an upgrade.

Firstly, Roon has moved manufacturing from the Far East to the USA. With this has come a fresh redesign of the units on the outside and an update to the internal layout.

Roon Labs says the changes made in the 2019 Nucleus and Nucleus+ have no impact on any other specifications or the overall user experience.

Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff and The Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).