iFi audio Aurora - all in one music system

The premium all-in-one music system that sounds as good as it looks.

For music lovers, pure and simple. In your home. In your office. In your garden. Your music has never looked or sounded this awesome.

French design.
Japanese inspiration.

Our designer, Julien Haziza, drew inspiration from Japanese industrial designers and architecture – namely Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando and the Omotesandō and Harajuku districts in Tokyo.

Clad in bamboo and elevated by a distinctive aluminium frame, the Aurora’s design is striking. It mimics the grand scale of Japanese architecture – crisp, clean lines intertwined with a hint of vintage. Very fitting for the tour de force that is our premium wireless music system – Aurora.

Music amplified by emotion

Aurora is driven by PureEmotion®, an ingenious fusion of amp technologies – brand new and original to iFi.

It delivers a sound that combines the purity of tone with a high level of engagement, speed and dynamic gusto, ensuring the emotive quality of music is delivered in full effect – which is why we call it PureEmotion®.

Analogue. Authentic.

Many audio products use digital signal processing (DSP) to deliver a big, spacious sound from a single box. This is an artificial, lossy process that detracts from the sound quality.

The clever technologies in the Aurora (and all iFI products), avoid this completely as they operate in the analogue domain.

SoundSpace® delivers a room-filling sound and gives the music a sense of scale and space you would a premium audio system.

TrueBass® delivers genuine bass with depth and definition. Everything from timpani to a bass guitar is conveyed with power and poise.

iFi audio Aurora - all in one music system

No space too big or small

With Auto Room Tailoring (ART)®, the Aurora can auto-configure the speaker array according to its position in the room.

The effect is similar to the adjustments made by a sound engineer at a live venue.

And what makes ART® special is that it’s executed in the analogue domain. Forget tinny and imagine deep, voluminous sound that captivates you. To our ears, no other music system with automatic room correction comes close.

Versatile.

Enjoy premium streaming services from Qobuz and TIDAL or standard streams from the likes of Spotify.

Aided by ART®, the Aurora adapts to the way you want to use it. It’s YOUR premium network music player. Place it under a TV, connect via Bluetooth® or optical cable and use it as a stylish soundbar. And stream your favourite music.

Link several Auroras via Wi-Fi to create a multi-room system, playing in sync or individually. Whether you’re streaming from a premium music service or surfing the infinite number of internet radio stations via TuneIn, the Aurora has your music needs covered.

Barnstorming Bluetooth

Aurora uses Bluetooth5.0® — the very latest version with the newest Qualcomm 5100 series chipset. There’s also the super-smooth ESS Sabre DAC chip.

All current and future Bluetooth® audio formats are supported including aptX and aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, LDAC and HWA/LHDC, hi-res Bluetooth® codecs created by Sony and Huawei respectively. Also, we have  Apple’s favoured format, AAC.

Every codec is covered at the highest resolution Bluetooth® specification. It’s the only premium Bluetooth music system you need.

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Future-proofed.

In addition to wireless connectivity there’s plenty of cable inputs — optical, coaxial, USB and Ethernet inputs cater for digital sources, while a 3.5mm socket provides an Alexa/analogue input. There is even a slot for audio stored on micro SDHC cards.

Aurora, with its awe-inspiring sound sustainable bamboo design, is a truly stunning addition to any home. No other premium all one system wireless music system looks or sounds this good.

Once you’ve heard it, we’re sure you will agree – She’s Electric.

Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban (坂 茂 Ban Shigeru, born 5 August 1957) is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims.

He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design. Find out more here.

Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄 Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as “critical regionalism”.

Read more here.

Omotesando

Omotesandō is known as one of the foremost ‘architectural showcase’ streets in the world, featuring a multitude of fashion flagship stores within a short distance of each other.

These include the Louis Vuitton store (Jun Aoki, 2002), Tod’s (Toyo Ito, 2004), Dior (SANAA, 2004), Omotesandō Hills (Tadao Ando, 2005) and Gyre (MVRDV, 2007), amongst others. More here.

Analogue 'v' Digital Signal Processing

Most modern systems use Digital Signal Processing. DSP samples analogue soundwaves into a limited set of numbers and records them. The overuse of DSP can result in an overcompressed unnatural sound and the translation and reassembly of data make digital devices prone to loss of quality.

All iFi products use Analogue Signal Processing as we believe it is better suited to audio. ASP does not cause signal quality to be lost as it records waveforms as they are and produces a more natural sound.

Lossy v Lossless

Lossless and lossy compression are terms that describe whether or not, in the compression of a file, all original data can be recovered when the file is uncompressed.

With lossless compression, every single bit of data that was originally in the file remains after the file is uncompressed.

On the other hand, lossy compression reduces a file by permanently eliminating certain information. Lossy audio files do not retain the natural authenticity of the original.

Bluetooth 5.0®

This is the latest version of the Bluetooth wireless communication standard.

Its main benefits are improved speed and greater range – it’s faster and can operate over greater distances than older versions of Bluetooth. You can find out more here.

DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter)

DACs convert digital information, stored or streamed by computers, into music we can hear through speakers or headphones.

Every device that’s a source of digital sound has a built-in DAC (TVs, games consoles, CD players, phones, portable music players etc). Dedicated external DACs sound much better than standard DACs used in digital devices such as phones.

aptX

aptX Bluetooth transmission is found in most Android phones, media players, Apple computers (macOS on iMacs and MacBooks) and on higher-quality Bluetooth headphones. It is not available on iOS (iPhones and iPads use Advanced Audio Codec).

LDAC

LDAC is an audio coding technology developed by Sony, which allows streaming audio over Bluetooth connections up to 990 kbit/s at 24 bit/96 kHz (also called high-resolution audio).

It is used in Sony headphones, smartphones, portable media players, active speakers and home theatres.

LDAC is a lossy codec which means is discards some of musical info to make the file smaller.

HWA

HWA is Bluetooth® wireless audio powered by LHDC™ and used by Huawei.

LHDC™ is codec developed by Savitech and stands for ‘low latency and high definition’ audio. Compared to standard Bluetooth®, it allows 3 times more musical date to be transmitted.

Extensive jitter-eradication technologies are applied to the digital stage, including our GMT (Global Master Timing) femto-precision clock and intelligent memory buffer. This represents a total ‘out-of-the-box’ systematic digital solution that solves jitter once and for all.

Discrete ESS Sabre Hyperstream DAC chipset with time domain jitter eliminator, discrete oscillator and 112dB dynamic range for discerning listeners.

The iFi Bluetooth® implementation does not use a standard SOC (System On a Chip) as seen elsewhere. It uses a combination of quality elements to extract the most from each stage.

The Qualcomm chip routes the raw, digital Bluetooth® signal to a specialised Sabre DAC chip to convert the signal from digital to analogue – any jitter is eliminated using our GMT femto-precision clock system to deliver Bluetooth® that is a cut above.

With LINKPLAY™ WiFi/network playback, built-in Spotify and Tidal, and wide protocol support for 32-Bit/192kHz. Aurora can be also used without a computer to stream audio directly.

ART  (Automatic Room Tailoring) is a ‘room correction’ system developed entirely in-house.

At the press of a button, six sensors measure the distance to the surrounding walls using ultrasonic sound. Then, a 32-bit ARM Cortex microprocessor adjusts the output from the speaker array to precisely tailor the musical performance.

All the adjustments are made strictly in the analogue domain, without relying on DSP or feedback in the manner of many other room correction systems. The result is stunning realism ‘live’ as if you were at the concert.

Read more here.

TrueBass® – the depth and quality of bass supplied by all-in-one lifestyle systems often leaves a lot to be desired.

The TrueBass® system, incorporating the two downward-firing 8′ bass radiators, delivers genuine bass with realistic depth and definition. Dual-level depth control means you can adjust the bass response according to taste – down to a deeply impressive 27Hz.

Everything from timpani to a bass guitar, to an electronic bassline, is conveyed with power and poise.

It’s all about the bass.

Soundspace® – the drive unit array with a proprietary matrix, adjusts the level of output from specific drivers at certain frequencies. It gives the Aurora an immersive, room-filling performance, enabling the soundstage to extend beyond the single cabinet.

Music has a sense of scale and space you simply wouldn’t expect from an all-in-one music system.

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The Russian 6N3P is from the 2C51 premium tube/valve family. Each half of the tube is used as the pre-amplifier stage for the left & right channels.

The 6N3P brings the beauty, life-like sound of tubes into play – unusual for a one-box music system.

If tubes is your thing, click here for a short history.

PureEmotion® is our proprietary amp technology. It is a hybrid circuit design that comprises several key stages.

The first of these – the preamp stage – incorporates a Russian 6N3P valve (visible through a window next to the OLED display). This takes the analogue audio signal delivered by the Aurora’s DAC circuitry – based around a chip from ESS Technology’s renowned 32-bit Sabre DAC family – and adds gain in preparation for further amplification, imbuing the sound with pure tonality, open imaging and natural fluidity.

If tech moves you as much as music, click here for the deeper, emotional details.

Extensive jitter-eradication technologies are applied to the digital stage, including our GMT (Global Master Timing) femto-precision clock and the intelligent memory buffer.

The low-jitter crystal clock has been updated to provide >20dB better performance

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Inputs
Hi-Res Bluetooth audio with aptxHD/aptX/LDAC/HWA(LHDC)/AAC
Networked Audio with playback from NAS or server, Airplay, streaming audio (Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon Music/Tidal
hifi/Deezer etc.) and USB storage /SD Card 44.1kHz/16Bit – 192kHz/32Bit
Coaxial and optical S/P-DIF (Blu-ray Player, Games Console, smart TV etc) 44.1kHz/16Bit – 192kHz/24Bit
RCA & 3.5mm (for Alexa or analogue audio)
Speaker System
4 x 4.5” (120mm) coated paper cone wideband driver
2 x 1.1” (28mm) silk dome tweeter (8 kHz crossover)
2 x 4.5” x 8” (120mm x 200mm) steel passive radiators
Frequency Response: 27Hz – 40kHz
Maximum SPL: 115dB / 1m
Amplifier
Hybrid with tube class A amplification. Power buffers operating at 1.411MHz/1.536MHz clock-locked.
Frequency Response15Hz to 150kHz
Maximum Power320VA (12v input for Marine/Car power supplies)
Distortion< 0.05%
Dimensions
Device59cm(w) x 27cm(h) x 28cm(d) — 15Kg
24″(w) x 11″(h) x 11″(d) — 33lb
Shipped69cm(w) x 50cm(h) x 40cm(d) — 20Kg
28″(w) x 20″(h) x 16″(d) – 44lb

iFi Aurora All-In-One Music System Review

Travis Ballstadt

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TEST: IFI Aurora – All-in-one system that dares something new!

“Aurora has an ability to fill the room with sound in an impressive way”

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recordere.dk

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“I really loved the Aurora – it looks stunningly fabulous, sounds great (and not just for a small all-in-one), has great connectivity, is simple to set up even for Luddites like myself and will really press all the buttons for a music lover looking for a one-box solution that could potentially grow (adding a turntable etc.).”

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iFi Aurora Review | Love At First Sight?!?!?

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Digital + Tubes French + Japanese awe-inspiring

So much anticipation to its arrival, felt like must see the aurora when u r physically arrived at north pole. It didn’t disappoint! This is truely all-in-one sensational indulgence. It’s sounding smoothly warm and wide open. Distinctive true Class-A sound, gotta be the tubes. Digital + Tubes, this is the one!

Concealed yet visible light emitting from the tube generates a mysterious climate out of the bamboo capsule. Its futuristic overtone brings out the flares of aurora in my view. French + Japanese exterior design blends right in with my home furnishings. I have been on the lookout for a truely integrated data path, digital to analog tube, plus a bonus speaker array! This one takes it to the peak level. I am thrilled with the discovery of this gem for its value vs price.

Amazon

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iFi Audio Aurora

“With a design drawing on trends in architecture, unique technology and a surprisingly involving sound, the aurora is rather more than just another all-in-one in a snazzy suit”

“It’s fast and precise with small-ensemble jazz or chamber recordings, has the deftness and punch to deliver rock in a persuasive manner – and the volume to match, without any sign of strain setting in, and even does a plausible job with ‘big band’ classical works.”

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HiFi Critic

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Ifi Audio Aurora All In One Review

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“The iFi Aurora packs a lot of technology into a stylish box that looks like nothing else. With on-board room correction, it can play with precision in a variety of spaces and it always seems to sound much larger than it is. It certainly produces bass that almost defies the laws of physics.”

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Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity

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iFi Aurora Lifestyle System Review

“…the iFi Aurora is both beautiful and functional.”

“…it is an audiophile lifestyle system that will play most music well, fit into most decors, and provide years of entertainment from all of your music sources, that can stand toe to toe with any system in its price range.”

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HiFiAUDIO.GURU

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iFi Audio Aurora network music system

“…the Aurora not only manages to play ‘big’ but to do so with serious sonic refinement”

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iFi Aurora Review: This Modern Art Piece Is Also A Killer Wireless Audio System

“Frankly, I’ve never heard music sound this good coming out of an all-in-one system. Neither have I heard such authoritative bass coming out of one.”

Forbes

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Aurora

“Aurora belongs into today’s home or office.”

“the audio purist meets fashion-conscious mid-century/modern lifestyle”

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6moons.com

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“The Aurora could play really loud without strain or distress. And its bass was really impressive.”

“(Aurora) is a work of modern industrial art.”

“Sonically, the Aurora did not disappoint — quite the contrary. It didn’t only meet the lofty expectations I’d formed during its launch at Munich’s whiteBOX, it exceeded them.”

“Indeed, the Aurora is one of the best-sounding tabletop music players I’ve heard.”

SoundStage! Simplfi

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