Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2)


AudioFacts frequently tests new products. Because for us this remains one of the most beautiful parts of our beloved profession. Our drive for perfection keeps us sharp because we're always looking for new products for our customers. During all our testing over the past nearly 20 years we rarely discover a product which surpasses all our expectations.

Thanks to Tru-Fi we can understand all the properties and talents of Audioquest cables optimally so we can use them all. It makes the impact of a power cable so much greater. The way we use a powercable, it becomes just as important as a component.

The Hurricane immediately shows that it lives up to its name. From the first moment on you realize that you are listening to something really special. This cable overwhelms you with its utmost precision and speed. The music you know well directly sounds 2 levels higher from the beginning.

Constantly there is that surprise during listening and the big smile on your face.

In timing and speed the Hurricane made a huge step compared to the Audioquest NRG-1000 and also other more expensive power cables. Each attack is so much faster (and shorter). All your music is being played with significantly more grip and AUTHORITY. We never encountered this degree in ease and additional control (due to a powercable) in this price range before.

You can even observe more diversity (layering) in sound. Diversity in sound is the most determining factor that influences the human emotion. Voices turn out to have more layers than we thought. Instruments gain a more natural and realistic sound. And voices become silky and more fluid than ever before.

The degree of 3-dimensionality of the sound image becomes larger. Since 2009 AudioFacts creates and sells only a 3-dimensional sound stage. Because humans also experience and perceive sound in a 3D spectrum. Thanks to the increase in resolution the stage becomes deeper and wider. Making voices and instruments more apparent and free from each other. So you can even walk through the recording during listening.

Voices and instruments are even more compact and therefore more intimate. The physical tangibility of both voices as instruments are even more authentic. In reality both voices as instruments are played very directly and displayed in small proportion.

Thanks to a lower noise floor the Hurricane creates an even better black level. This is the space between the voices and instruments of a recording. When the sound becomes more tangible and more voices and instruments get a stature (shape), we speak of a higher black level.

What also impressed us with the Hurricane is the huge increase in resolution (details) which can now be perceived. The space in which the recording is made is now very easily observable. Also the articulation of voices becomes more clearly audible. Even the decay around voices and instruments becomes clearly observable.

Regarding to the frequency range you immediately hear that the response of both the Monitor Audio Pl-500 as the Platinum subwoofer goes even deeper than before. You feel the increase in power and energy of the low frequencies. When the low frequency range of an audio system increases, often the degree of emotion becomes larger. In addition you can even hear an increase of information and layers in the middle and high frequencies.

Thanks to our research and developedment of Statement Audio Pro-measurement, differences in height of voices and instruments become more clear to observe. This allows you to better perceive the harmony of voices and instruments together. It makes the music more emotional and intense. The Hurricane creates an even higher degree in diversity of the height of voices and instruments.

It is more than clear that Audioquest have made a big step with the Hurricane power cable. At the price of 1599 euro (for 1 meter) we have never auditioned a power cable of this unique and high quality.

The impact and influence of the Hurricane in an audio system is rather big and decisive. And it makes clear more than ever that power cables should be an essential component in any audio system. The price of 1599 euro (for 1 meter) is more than justified by the large step in quality gained.

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I got the impression that you're a perfectionist so I figured you'd be so tired of having to deal with inferior products that you'd create/design your own equipment.. make some money doing it.. teaching everyone how to do it.. To me thats what a perfectionist does..
The thing what effects me the most is that I met too many people who spend a lot of money on audio who played at a very low level. I see and understand their frustration. I feel like I am just one of them.

I want to be there for these people to help them and to protect them. And that is why I hate those inferior products so much. They do not add anything in this world. They even have not the right to be there in my world. They limit people on facts, there is not even a discussion possible.

I did so many tests that I know for 100% that these products cannot make any person happy only those people who sell them. I wrote so many times that people need to learn to look further

But also in this parts the facts proof that most people are not able to look that much further. I had to learn to look a lot more further to find better options and to understand sound in general. I had to do this all by myself.

I am blessed that I can use the insight and knowledge of different specialists. They understand that I would do anything for them, so they do anything for me. And this is where live is all about.

It is not possible for me to work for a company or boss anymore. I need my freedom and time to test and do research. Different people and I think we can create a new and much better audio world. And yes this is important for me.

My goal in life is creating a foundation for those people who have nothing. For me this is the highest thing I can achieve in life. I want to use the money I make in sound&vision for this foundation.

That is why I am so dedicated to reach my goal. I wrote it many times that I said; it is not about me. Because this is how people react based on their narrow perspective.

Music is the thing I love most in life. Because I want to feel the emotion of the music. I had to read a lot about the human emotion and how it works. That is why diversity in sound is the main property of sound. This part will always influence the human emotion for the biggest part.

When you can think and work in properties you even can focus on just one property. This is how I work. It is almost 2 years ago that I found out that diversity is the most important part to experience the emotion of music.

I did many tests only on this part. I am not a technician. But I know the properties of many parts. And what they will do in a poweramp, pre amp, source etc. I have people who build in these parts as I wanted them to be used.

We modified many things in the last few years. I love to create products who have no competition at all. A perfectionist only wants to win. The endresult always need to be superior to the best there is. This is always my focus. 2nd best is not an option, this will always be for born losers in my world. And no one can change that.

For me it is very easy to create a level in both sound&vision what is superior to any other level created by another person for the same money. But.....the difficult part is to make it accepted.

The people with who I work togheter understand that the way I work that there is no competition. And ofcourse they are interested. I do not want to help them so they can outperform their competitors. I do not want to be responsible for that.

I understand that I cannot help everyone. But.....we all understand that when I share my knowledge and insight with a company it becomes very easy to outperform their competitors.

I have to think about this how I can mange this. This is so much more difficult than creating the best sound&vision. Because this is easy for me as 1 and 1 is 2. On the other hand I will not give anything for free. That is also no option.

It is like I can give a key what will open many doors which are now closed for all the trail and error thinking people. It cannot be learned by anyone. Only understood. The insight is in my head. It is like a enigma machine what can find many solotions for things which are now all done wrong. I can garantee you that there are many.
so hi end is about upgrading or tru-fi? i smoke too much weed and sometimes get lost.
willemj
Well I did leave vinyl behing ages ago.

>>>>Understand. You prefer the clean synthetic sound more than the full natural sound. That makes sense given your solid state proclivity.


We brought digital sound to a much more analogue sound than ever before. When you work by Tru-Fi you can adapt each single property of sound.

I made great progress in diversity in sound. I have a client who had a turntable with pre amp and cartridge worth of over 8000 dollar.

He compared his digital source with modifications different times with his (now sold) recordplayer.

His words; my digital source owns an even more analogue sound than my recordplayer can give. Based on the fact that he can reveal much more layers even in the middle freq. range than with his recordplayer.

Tru-Fi is so effective in each single part of an audio system. The problem in digital audio is that  over 99% of all the products are incomplete. It doesn’t matter which combination you make it will not bring you where you want to be.

I first use brands who own all the different properties. But the magic begins when I start with changing parts inside. Diversity is the key to succes.