April Music Aura Note V2 Music Center

Jeff Stockton has posted a review of the April Music Aura Note V2 Music Center ($3000) at SoundStage! Xperience. His conclusions:

“With V2 of the Aura Note music system, April Music has produced a versatile, adaptable, complete home-audio system in a single box. Its beautiful built-in CD player and analog inputs respect the past, it embraces the new by accepting the inputs of the full range of contemporary computer-audio products and mobile devices, and it promises to retain its relevance and utility thanks to its intelligent internal computer and April’s willingness to issue firmware updates — even its remote control has a couple of keys labeled “F,” for Future. About halfway into writing this review, I realized that I’d soon have to return the review sample of the Aura Note V2, along with its colorful musical palette, its natural portrayal of instruments, its ferocious bass response, and its vital reproduction of human voices. I’m about to say goodbye to its full-bodied soundstage, the contours it introduces into the air, and the convincing case it makes that I’m enjoying what I’m hearing. I’m going to miss it.”

You can read the full review here.