Thanks! I will post my thoughts by the end of the week. A couple things for now; the Hurricane is very stiff and unfortunately the IEC plug doesn't have a tight grip which exacerbates the stiffness. My friend has the Hurricane and he thinks the lack of grip will be problematic for most.
Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2)
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.
oem-wheels, I agree about the improvements in sound...more to come. I want to be honest in my assessment; therefore I must talk about their weaknesses too. My dealer told me to take a piece of electrical tape and put it on the plug to get a tighter fit. It works, I just don't feel I should have to do something like that to have a tight connection. |
So, I ordered two Hurricane power cords and one Tornado. I have one Hurricane going from my amp to the power conditioner and one from the power conditioner to the wall(Shunyata outlet). I use the Tornado on my DAC. I want to be as succinct as possible without hyperbole! I like to preface my findings with "in my system" and "in my room". Simply put the new Audioquest power cords lower the noise floor. I'm not talking night and day, but to a degree that allows everything to be more easily heard. Music has weight to it and minor details are more apparent than ever. My frame of reference with power cords is relatively small...I've had Wireworld Silver and Platinum Electras, Shunyata Alphas and Sigmas, and Audioquest NRG-4s in my system. I'll order two more Hurricane power cords and call it a day. Although the differences aren't night and day, these are the type of improvements so many of us drool over and spend lots and lots of money for. |
I decided to borrow another Audioquest Tornado to go from my preamp to the power conditioner. I didn't expect much, because I already have three Audioquest cords, but I was wrong. So wrong, I decided to purchase one 15 amp Dragon source power cord and see where it goes best. Guido I'm very, very surprised that changing the power cord on my Jeff Rowland Corus preamp made such a difference. |
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@oem-wheels unfortunately yes it is worth it My experience with Dragon HC here https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-audioquest-hurricane-part-1/post?postid=1495364#149536... |
Thank you everyone for your contributions. I currently own 26 after market power cords including NRG4, NRG1000, NRG WILD, flagship PS Audio PCs and many more. I am most curious to hear these new Audioquest PCs, the hurricane in particular. I really appreciate first hand user feedback! From what I understand each of the three conductor bundels in the new design has its own unique geometry. Through testing and “trial and error” Audioquest has learned certain geometries work better for positive for example vs the negative. I find this fascinating. I am hoping to eventually acquire a full loom of hurricanes if it truly is all I expect it to be. Please continue to keep us apprised those of you that own them. And yes, be sure to move these cables to different parts of your system to see if they are more effective in one place than another. These are 11 gauge cables I believe but should still be sufficient for any high current application. Keep the comments coming! |
FYI -- looks as if Mikey Fremer is running new AQ Dragon power cables in his system these days -- clearly visible appx 4min in to this https://www.analogplanet.com/content/sim-audios-costa-koulisakis-gives-us-tour-moon-888-monoblock-am... |
@minimus "From what I understand each of the three conductor bundels in the new design has its own unique geometry. Through testing and “trial and error” Audioquest has learned certain geometries work better for positive for example vs the negative. I find this fascinating." Could you share from where you get this information from with regardings to different geometries per conductor? |
New research created new levels in sound. I use an Audioquest Dragon high current on my Platinum subwoofer including the improved Statement Audio Pro measurement. It creates a new level in sound what I never auditioned before. One of the big limitations of audio is working and thinking in 1980 style. With Statement Audio Pro we get access to details and layers wich never can be created by 1980 audio products. It is insane to think it is still 1980. Beside the products trial and error is an extreme low level in creating audiosystems. It is just one big laugh. I see it as a joke. For me it is very difficult to understand and see how extreme low the level is in insight and knowledge of both sound&vision. I phoned a few times with Audioquest Europe to explain to them how low the level is of the real quality of their new powercables they have access to. That is why I invited them to demo how big the differences are between them and us. We are in a different world for a very long time now. When we go to new cleints, shops and shows it always feels like er go back in time for 20 years. It is hard for me to see and hear that they all have been sleeping in those years. In a Tru-Fi world you will have access to a superior level of the whole quality of their new powercables. When a system can reveal all the details and layers of a recording the influence of just one powercable will become so much bigger. We connected the new Audioquest powercables in different Tru-Fi systems and the results are so impressive. But in a trial and error system the influence of these cables are so much less effective. Based on the fact that they own incomplete audiosystems. So they only can use a small % of what the powercable could give you. And that is why I will invite Audioquest to hear it themself. We love to proof sound by facts. |
Audio is all about sound. And sound is build on properties. This has nothing to do with personal taste. What is the biggest nonsense in the world and even based on facts. When you are a child you believe in Santa Claus, but after time they tell you that he does not exist. It is only an assumption what you believe is the truth. But......I can garantee you that the truth is a lot different . Untill januari 2016 I even believed that audio is just a personal matter of taste. Music is music and is sound what is founded on properties. This has nothing to do with personal taste. When you learn to understand how our human emotion works regarding music things become a lot more clear. All the different properties of sound can influence our human emotion. The most important property of sound what influences our emotion is diversity in sound. This is de layering in sound what you will find in the harmonics. It is not the only one, but....it is still the most important one. When you would focus only just on this property you will understand how limited this is in most audiosystem. Based on the fact that these audiosystems are all created by trial and error what is pure audiogambling. In 2017 I talked with many people who also work like me for a long time in audio. They all agreed that they do audio by gambling. I was stunned and I thought; what have you done all these years. It looks like they all have been sleeping during those years. Trial and error is the level of a child. Which they all agreed when I said: this is audio without foundation. What is the same as the level of a child. There was no one who said; I can tell you what the foundation is in how I work. This is the truth what makes 100% clear why most of the systems are so limited. Each audio system what is able to reveal all the details, layers and emotion of a recording will be chosen over any limited incomplete trial and error system. This can be easily proven by sound and over and over again. There is not even any discussion possible. It proofs how silly audio is done all over the world. When audio will be chosen by Tru-Fi (what has nothing to do with brands and products) all people will get a superior level in audio at home all over the world. Tru-Fi is based on all the properties on which sound is being founded. Nothing more nothing less. It is the only way to understand why the sound and stage of your system at home is what you hear. All other ways of creating audio is just trial and error. What easily can be compared on facts with the level of a child. It has no real foundation. When I asked it people who work in audio no one could tell me what his foundation really is. When you cannot handle the truth you will own a limited audio system untill you die. Based on the fact that trial and error is extremely ineffective and money will never help you. I visited many people with systems far over 50.000 dollar. And most systems where poor based on the fact that they are all created without any foundation. Most people in audio and those who see it as their hobby have no real idea how low the level is what they are able to achieve. They have only access to a very limited level of the whole quality of each part in their system. When you listen to your system at home, you will listen to all the different properties of each single part of your audiosystem together including the acoustics and other parts (like smog, magnetism and high frequent noise) who negatively influences the sound and stage. So you need to be able to extract all the different properties of each part in your system. And you need to understand how the acoustics influences the sound and stage. And you need to learn how big the influence is of smog, magnetism and high frequent noise. At the 3th of july 1998 I was sitting in a bus to the first day of my work in audio. And I was thinking that I want to understand why each loudspeaker sounds so different than another one. This was a mindset at that time, based on the fact that I choose to learn to understand sound. In the first years I worked in audio I made 80 hours each single week. It was never enough ,I was that addicted. Sound&Vision is not my work or hobby, it is my second nature. It has become a part of who I am as a person. I can see and hear 3-4 steps further than all the other people in sound&vision which I all see as children. When I go into a room during an audio show I start counting the fault they made. They have no idea of all these faults. Based on the fact that they do not have the insight and knowledge. I did thousands of tests in almost 20 years now. I can focus on extreme small parts of an audio system what never has been tested before. Based on the fact that normal human beings are not able to think and work in patterns like I do. I created a photographic memory what I see as an enigma machine. It makes me understand both sound&vision. It is very easy for me to test and compare. Based on the fact that I can observe all the properties of sound in a split second. And I can see the old and new situation beside eachother in my head. This makes is very easy to understand which one is the best. Of each part in an audio system I first want to extract the DNA and all the properties. I am only interested in properties. I build each single audiosystem by all the properties of each part in a system. Tru-Fi also combines each part together to create a superior level of access to the whole quality a part could create. Tru-Fi counts and works for each single audio product. It always show which properties it owns and which one are missing. I am only interested in the products which own the perfect DNA. In tests I normally see and hear that most products are incomplete. It will always become a limitation in your system. People thought that if they use the same brands as I do we can create the same kind of level. No you will never come even close to the level I can create. I can see so much further into details which you never will see and hear. I work these days at 0.25 millimeter . People have no idea what this really means. When I come into the room I hear the sound and I know how and where to put the loudspeakers. When we sell an audio system we come to our clients with over 6000 euro in equipment to adjust any system. You have no idea how much further this goes compared to the trial and error world you all live in. I made big steps also in smog, magnetism and high frequnet noise. I will never tell how I work and do this. I always want to be superior and outperfroming to each other single person in audio. In my world there is only one thing that counts. Be the best by far and outperform each other one in the world. Second best is for all the born losers in this world. Normal people can never understand what perfectionism really is. Because it is a way of thinking and working what is 100% different than the way you think and live your life. People need to start to focus on sound and properties. Only then you could maybe learn to understand why the sound and stage of your system is what you hear. But when you will keep on focusing on brands and products you will only own an incomplete audiosystem untill you die. |
"I always want to be superior and outperfroming to each other single person in audio. In my world there is only one thing that counts. Be the best by far and outperform each other one in the world. Second best is for all the born losers in this world. Normal people can never understand what perfectionism really is. Because it is a way of thinking No need to be so modest Bo1972 and Doppleganger. We fumbling and cringeworthy audiofools are squirming at your Divine feet, begging for enlightenment, whilst sadly realizing that only THE ONE GODLY BO1972 and his faithful Doppleganger can ever aim to grok the sublime magnitute and total splendor of the TRUE TRUTH, even when thussly magnanimously revealed to us creatures of insignificant birth! Squirmingly thine... G. |
I only write things when I can proof it by sound. It is that simple. There is no doubleganger. Just one to make things simple for all the trial and error people who have a nice incomplete audiosystem. The born losers with their trail and error limited systems will react based on the fact that this is not what they want to read. No...they like to hear what they would want to hear. And if that is not that truth they all don’t F. care. If people read something that they don’t like they will react. Tell me what is your foundation? On which foundation you make your decisions.............. I asked it to many and I got no answer. So for all the trial and error people please explain your foundation..... And mannn I love to read it, I can’t wait :) |
No incomplete audiosystem can make any person in the world happy for a long period of time. Based on the fact that this is how our emotion works. People with trial and error systems make changements all the time. But when it is not able to experience the emotion of your music you will keep on looking for adjustments in your system over and over again. But......you still are not able to think and work in properties. This means (on facts again) that each part you change you still have no idea which properties you bring in and which you take out. It is for 100% pure gambling over and over again. And you only can listen to the endresult of your system. But when you cannot understand which properties you took out when you changed a part. And you also have no idea which properties you brought in with the new tool, it will ne pure gambling untill you die. This is a 100% fact no one can deny. What you need is access to all the details, layers and emotion of the recording you are listening at. For trial and error systems it is very easy to understand why the level in emotion is limited. When you do a shootout against a Tru-Fi system in a few seconda you understand that your trial and error system is limited. This is how we work. I never met any trial and error system owner who said; my system is more emotional and attractive than the Tru-Fi system you demoed. Music is all about emotion, this is again a 100% fact. We all have a personal taste in music. But.....music will always work the same way. As it owns details, layers and emotion. This only can be experienced when a system can reveal it. Tru-Fi is 100% founded on how music sounds and on how it is being formed on properties. These are all facts which can be experienced by each individual person. Tru-Fi also is based on how the human emotion works. During live acoustic classical music I learned how small and direct both voices and instruments are being projected. I call this intimate sound and this is also a property of sound. And again this has a big influence on our emotion during listening to your music. Many audio systems of new clients, audioshops and at shows proof that they lack realistsic intimate sound. Base don the fact that the people have no idea how is sounds in real. And second they have no idea how to create it. We brought many people from incomplete systems to a Tru-Fi system. We will place reviews on our website (in english later as well) what Tru-Fi did with their thoughts about music and audio. What the people all have in common is that they use their system a lot more and longer at the same time compared to any trial and error system they owned in the past. This is how big the influence van become of music when a system brrings you that much closer to how music sounds in real. |
I am always here just for a short period of time. When I read the comments on the threads it proofs people are still focusing on products and brands. And they all think it is still 1980, it always makes me smile and amazed how limited the level is of most people about audio. It is so funny they all do audio at the level of a child and they even have no idea how limited it is. In 2017 I started to ask many people who also work in audio for a long time how they make their decisions. It became clear when I spoke tenths of them that they all do it the same way. They all agreed that it is gambling what they do. So this means that their clienst own trial and error gambling systems. This is a fact and has nothing to do with a personal taste. Even when I aks them; tell me what is your personal taste and tell me where is it founded at. The also work in audio like me for a very long time and could not really give a clear answer. And it looked like they never really thought about this question. Beside asking the same questions to people who work in audio I aksed the same questions to people who work for manufacturers. And they even agreed that there is no real foundation and it is founded on just trial and error and just go with the flow. You only can create knowledge when you understand how sound works. And how the human emotion works regarding music. Even when I asked them; tell me what are the properties of sound? They had no idea. Tell me how does the human emotion works regarding music, they all had no idea to be honest. I even asked people for manufacturers tell me about your product what are the properties they can reveal? The only thing they said; it is musical and wel controlled. So I aksed them; tell we what do you mean with musical? They started to hesitate and could not find the right words. It all proofs that people are standing on extremely thin ice about their knowledge and inside regarding audio and sound. After our discussion they became aware how limited their knowledge is and that it lacks any kind of foundation. I am not here to provoke them and to explain how limited they are. No they need to understand that if you are in this business you need to create knowledge and insight. This means put a lot of effort in testing and reading about sound and the human emotion. Many people who work in audio think that information about products told by manufacturers and distributers is knowledge, but it is not. It is only an assumption made by a person. And many of these assumptions are not even true. And easily can be overulled by sound and facts. This again proofs how thin the ice is where they all are walking at. It is very easy to explain to them that it is only gambling and guessing that it will be a good choice. Audio does not work like that, based on the fact that it only can be understood and guided when you understand how sound works. This is not a personal thing, nooooooo we are talking all about facts. People never like to hear the truth and if things are totally different they will try to attack you. Attack with what? Just tell me your foundation and maybe you can make a good point. But when it is all founded on gambling it is worth nothing, just zero. You need to learn to look further. And when you are not able to hear the truth what do you want? You would like to hear the things what you would love to hear. Even if this is not the truth? I can garantee you one thing for 100%, you will never own an audiosystem what will be used each single day. You will never own a system what makes you emotional and want you to listen to it over and over again. It is up to you and when you cannot handle the truth, I am sorry for you but it is your own responsibility about all the choices you make! :) |
And Her Doktor 2Psyops von Doppelganger was right, and so I did brace myself for the onslot... And the bombardment of True Truth has come... And it did make me cry... From merriment, that is *Grins!* But Bo, you are correct... At 64, I am very much still a child, and listen to music with all the wonderment of when I was a six year old listening to my first solo violin performer at Nino's restaurant in the San Siro suburb of Milano, or banging on my toy xylophone with true gusto.
G. |
When audio would be done a lot more precise and honest many more people could have a great system. It has nothing to do with money. All the research I did, it proofs that it can be created with prices many people can afford. But......we live in a world where it is all about money. People are only interested in making as much money as possible. They don’t care about your system. We think they all see it wrong, when you would focus on the best quality you can create for all consumers it will make a difference. And we believe that emotion and Tru-Fi will make many people happy with music. I started when I was six and got a Philips Tube taperecorder. I am addicted to music and I spend over 200 euros on new music each single month. I see it as my peronal goal to give as many as possible other people the same emotional feeling of music. You only can experience the real emotion when your system can reveal all the details. layers and the real emotion of the music. This is where the focus in audio should be. And not about only creating money for yourself. Maybe I am an idealist, but I could not do it differently. I work for all my clients and I see it as my task to create the best possible quality for the money they spend. |
Prices are different in the US. I got many emails of people overhere
about Audioquest cables in the last months. So I talked about this with Audioquest.
There is a good change I can deliver Audioquest directly in the US soon. We sell a lot more expensive Audioquest cables then all other shops in my country. This is based on the fact that we use Audioquest totally different . And they are interested in how we do it. That is why I invited them to show how limited the level is what they can achieve by their way of thinking. In a Tru-Fi world a cable is as important as a loudspeaker, amps or source is. This is based on the fact that a cable in a Tru-Fi systems has a much bigger influence than in any trial and error created system. We can proof easily that we use Audioquest so much more precise than any other shop who sells Audioquest on this planet. All my clients have a totally different perspective and thought about cables. Based on the fact that I show them how big the influence is in the way we work. And now Audioquest is interested why our succes with Audioquest is so much bigger compared to any trial and error shop. |
The problem in the level you can get out of any Audioquest powercable is limited by the wrong choices of people. For example; we tested many powerconditioners and most are incomplete in properties. When you connect a Hurricane to it you can use a limited level of it. Over 99% of all audioproducts in audioshops are useless in a Tru-Fi world. They will never add anyhting in a Tru-Fi system. I am sorry for those who own these products. It is not my fault or mistake many products are incomplete. It is not up to me to give names. These manufacturers are responsable for the products they make. I would never sell them, then it would be time to stop audio. I would never want to be in their shoes. I have a totally different opinion about audio and the way you respect people. |
Hello 2Cyops, at CableCompany, in the USA Hurricanes right currently starts at $1399 for 1m length. See: https://www.thecableco.com/hurricane-power-cord.html Saluti, G. |
Tru-Fi means we create both sound&vision based on the properties they own. For the following reason; so people can experience both sound&vision at a superior level in emotion and realism. I give an example, a new client of mine who sees audio as his only hobby read an advertisement of Lumin we placed. After a few emails we talked to eachother on the phone. We will soon work with AudioFacts ambassadors a lot . I have clients all over my country and also in a growing foreign market. I did send him to 2 clients of mine. My clients are all very proud on their systems I created for them. When you work your ass of for your clients you will get a lot of respect back. They are always prepared to help me when I ask them. These days I send people to clients of mine who life not that far away from them. These systems are superior compared to any trial and error system in any shop. It is not even a fare challenge, the differences could not be bigger. After these visits he called me back and said; everything of my system has to go. When you listen to any Tru-Fi system it becomes clear how limited your system is you own. I have done these shootouts many tiems and I know always the outcome. They even have no chance at all. I always advice to take their own music with them. So my clients will put it on the drive and often Lumin L1 of their networkplayer. Often when people call me back they say; this is what I want. Their beloved music is being played at a level they never experienced before. In 2017 I made huge steps. And the biggest steps I made was in diversity in sound. I know since a little more than 2 years that diversity in sound is the most important part in music. Based on the fact that this part has the biggest influence on our emotion of all different properties of sound. When you listen to your beloved music with a Tru-Fi system the level in emotion is from a different world. A level what is on it's own. Each trial and error system will always create an inferior level of emotion. His new system is fully created by us from scratch. Based on the fact that each part in his system was not the best you can get for that money. In a Tru-Fi world each inferior part needs to go. Based on the fact that each incomplete part in your system will only work negatively. Even this can easily be proved by sound. People are learned that a audiosystem is a personal matter and that only they can create a system what they will like and prefer. I even thought for a long time that it works this way. Again it was only based on an assumption made by a born loser. At this moment we are talking a lot with manufactures to find the best way to bring it to more customers. They also know it will bring audio and even vision to a different level. We believe that many people who are not interested in audio will think different when they hear a Tru-Fi system. All people love music like all people want to experience emotion. In surround and vision we have created the same high level as in stereo. 2 years ago we also started to do a lot of reseach in vision as well. We work the same way and it creates again levels what outperforms eveything you have seen before. When LG visit us at my house in 2017 they where blown away. Because they never saw this level in vision in their whole life. We work with the most expensive and most advanced Calman software of 3000 euro. This is without the tools for measurements. We can create a stunning level in vision as well. Also for vision I use tools to limit smog, magnetism and high frequent noise. Calman saw that we go even a lot further then they do in details. They have almost no knowledge and insight in smog, magnetism and high frequent noise. It even goed further than that. We modify Oled tv's. We know to modify videoscalers and which are the best cables for vision. We phone at lot and send messages to different specialists in vision these days as well. But they all are focused on just one part. We use all the different parts together so we can create an ultimate level no one can reach. Everything I create needs to be superior to the level you can get elsewhere. I also use properties of tools to modify and improve. We already do a lot of modifications. This will be even a lot more this year. AudioFacts create togheter with different specialist improved sources, amps, powersupplies and soon screens as well. |
When people buy an Audioquest cable we ask them for all the details of their system before we sell anything. We don’t sell Audioquest as a cable or product. We make it an important part of the whole system. We advice those cables which will create the best results. We have done so many tests with them that we know all the differences between them. We know the DNA of almost each Audioquest cable. I would never be interested in selling just a cable. It is the way we do audio and how we use Audioquest. I never sell any Audioquest cable when I do not know the parts of a system where it will be used. This is how serious we take our work. We do it with collecting details of any system. I am not interested in selling audio products and brands. I create sound&vision. With cables I work the same way. Each individual advice I make for a client is based on creating the best endresult possible. |