Hi Graham,

For me, the NUC is a simple one-box solution. A decent PC will also work, but as pointed out, the Roon OS and music data need to live on separate devices - Roon must live on very fast storage (SSD or faster). If you think in Sooloos terms, the NUC provides Core and Store functions (it can also act as an audio endpoint). My NUC has a 128Gb M2 drive for the Roon OS and database and a 2Tb SSHD for the music library (most of which was a direct import from my Sooloos backup). I also use Tidal and am currently testing Qobuz.

I would tend to stick clear of running Roon on the QNAP, I did run Sooloos on my QNAP for a while but it used to conflict with other things the QNAP did, so eventually switched over to an MS200. I have tried Roon on a lesser-spec PC and it worked fine for a single endpoint but started to run out of steam when having to transcode or if I applied filters.

To get your data out of Sooloos, just do a native FLAC / WAV export, and once Roon is up and running import the backup - Roon will sort out the rest. Add a Tidal login and you'll have access to a whole world of music!

You can setup both Roon and Tidal with a month's free account, install the software on a reasonable PC and you'll be up and running very quickly with no outlay - You can then evaluate for a month and then decide what you want to do. You can move the license by logging into a fresh Roon instance (it will stop the old one working), copy the data across and you are then on new hardware.

Feel free to drop me a PM if you want to discuss further.

Cheers,

Steve