iFi Aurora | All-in-One Music System
iFi’s Aurora wireless all-in-one music system delivers a unique sonic experience with striking aesthetics
- Beautiful, French-designed Bamboo exterior with distinctive aluminum frame
- Stream from your favorite app or play files from your computer or NAS at up to 32-bit/192kHz via WiFi or Ethernet connection
- Superior Bluetooth with support for Qualcomm aptX Adaptive, aptX HD, Sony LDAC, Huawei HWA, AAC, and SBC
- Control via MUZO Player app or any UPnP/DLNA app (Airplay and Spotify Connect supported)
- Link several Auroras together to create a seamless multi-room system or link to Alexa using Echo
- Automatic Room Tailoring (ART) technology adapts to its location and adjusts for optimal performance
- Features optical, coaxial, and USB digital inputs along with analog 3.5mm input and micro SDHC card playback
Wireless Music on the Grandest Scale
iFi’s new wireless music system, the Aurora, brings together a unique collection of technology to deliver a sonic experience unlike any other tabletop, all-in-one system. The Aurora’s name is inspired by its sound, delivering a remarkably expansive soundstage tailored to the space in which it sits. It fills the room with sound like the Aurora Borealis fills the sky with light, electrifying your music and immersing you in the performance of your favorite artists!
A Design Statement
“An eye-popping clash of bamboo fins and aluminum girders with a touch-sensitive trapezium OLED display. It makes a statement.”
Esquire
“iFi Aurora wireless music system looks to the future and sounds huge.”
Inside CI
“…it’s made from bamboo and sounds great. Certainly a statement product …”
Sean Hannam
ART
The Aurora incorporates a ‘room correction’ system called ART (Automatic Room Tailoring), entirely developed in-house. At the press of a button, 6 sensors measure the distance to the surrounding walls using ultrasound. Then, a microprocessor adjusts the output from the driver array to precisely tailor Aurora’s performance. The effect is similar to the adjustments made by a live sound engineer at a mixing desk when adapting sound to suit different venues. All the adjustments are strictly analog without relying on DSP. This enables a much finer and more accurate tailoring of the sound without attempting to 'neutralize' it unnaturally. Whether you place it on a table, in the corner, or under a wall-mounted television, ART ensures the Aurora is calibrated to perform at its best.
Aesthetic
Clad in bamboo and elevated by a distinctive aluminum frame, the Aurora’s design is striking. The aesthetic was created by Julien Haziza, inspired by the architecture in Tokyo’s Omotesandō and Harajuku districts. Six drive units nestle behind the bamboo fins that curve around the Aurora’s sides, with a further two bass radiators underneath. The system’s control panel sits front and center, with touch-sensitive controls and an OLED display inlaid with bamboo.
TrueBass and SoundSpace
The TrueBass system, incorporating the two downward-firing bass radiators, ensures the Aurora delivers genuine bass with realistic depth and definition, all adjustable according to taste.
SoundSpace is fundamental to the Aurora’s immersive, room-filling performance, enabling the soundstage to extend beyond the confines of the cabinet with expansive width, height, and depth.
Proprietary Amp Tech
A hybrid design, the Aurora incorporates classic valve-based pre-amplification and advanced solid-state power amplification with ultra-fast switching. This amp fusion enables a sound combining purity of tone with a high level of engagement, speed and dynamic gusto.
Reviews
"This $1,400 Stereo System Can Make Streaming Music Sound Analog"
Bloomberg
"This Modern Art Piece Is Also A Killer Wireless Audio System"
Forbes
"iFi Aurora Wireless Music System... Those Who Love it Will REALLY Love it!"
SoundStage! Simplifi
Specifications
Inputs
- Bluetooth 5.0 with aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Low Latency, Sony LDAC, Huawei HWA, and AAC
- Networked: NAS, Server, or Airplay playback
- Streaming: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, etc.
- Media: USB storage, SD Card playback at 44.1kHz/16Bit - 192kHz/32Bit
- Digital Inputs: Coaxial, optical S/P-DIF (Blu-ray, Gaming Console, smart) at 44.1kHz/16Bit - 192kHz/24Bit
- Analog Inputs: RCA & 3.5mm (for Alexa or analog connection)
Speaker System
- (x4) 4.5” (120mm) coated paper cone wide-band driver
- (x2) 1.1” (28mm) silk dome tweeter (8 kHz crossover)
- (x2) 4.5” x 8” (120mm x 200mm) steel passive radiators
- Frequency Response: 27Hz – 40kHz
- Maximum SPL: 115dB / 1m
Amplifier
- Hybrid with tube class A amp
- Power buffers operating at 1.411MHz/1.536MHz clock-locked
- Frequency Response: 15Hz to 150kHz
- Max Power: 320VA (12v input for marine/car power supplies)
- Distortion: < 0.05%
In the Box
- Aurora Wireless Audio System
- Remote Control
- User Manual
