Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2)

Thank you for the review Bo. I hope to see more on the new AQ power cables by others here. 👍

The Hurricane needs about 350 hours to burn in. 

      Thanks folkfreak... It was suggested to me to put the power cord before the strip so that maybe all components could benefit. My strip isn't a conditioner, just a passive device with some em/rf shielding (Verastarr). Also thats where I think the cord would break in the quickest ?...  Once I get the new cord, I'll move the cord thats in the wall back to where the amp is and put the new cord in the wall. I assume thats when I'll hear the biggest impact on sound. We'll see. 

When you test conditioners like we do on properties you will find out that most are not able to reveal all the properties of sound.

When we test new conditioners often we loose different parts of sound. So this proofs that these conditioners are not able to reveal all the parts of sound.

This even means that when you would connect amps, pre amp, sources, cables and loudspeakers who are able to reveal all the different parts the conditioner will F. up totally the endresult and will make it incomplete. Because this is how audio works by properties.

You only can work by products who are complete are almost complete to create an audio system what is able to reveal all the details and layers of a recording.

@oem-wheels it’s a peculiar paradox of audio that actually one of the least sensitive places for a power cord is actually between your power conditioner and the wall. While all of your devices are drawing power from here assuming your conditioner has some genuine conditioning function (and is not simply a power strip) most of us find that changing the cord from the conditioner to a component has much greater impact. So yes it will make a difference, but maybe not the highest point of impact

I’d encourage you to try your Hurricanes in a variety of different locations and see where you get the most improvement

We work by Tru-Fi. Sound contains 8 different properties. You want an audio system to be able to reveal all the information of a recording.

I have done thousands of tests in audio in almost 20 years of time. I learned myself to extract each single part of an audio system by properties.

I wanted to understand and guide each single audio system why the stage and souund is what I hear. When you train your brains thousands of times the same way you can create a photographic momory in sound. This is how I work.

Trial and error systems are over 99% incomplete on facts. So they miss essential parts of sound. We use properties of amps, pre amps, sources, cables, conditioners to make each single system complete.

When you do audio by trial and error, you do audio by the level of a child. Based on the fact that you have no idea what the F. you are doing. So you cannot control and guide your own system.

This is an extreme limited way of creating audio. It will always be Russian Roulette untill you die. I can promiss you one thing; It is almost impossible to create an audio system what owns all the different properties of sound. You can spend even a million on audio, but the money will not help you at all.

Trial and error is doing audio without any kind of foundation. This is the main reason why most systems at shows, shops, distributers, manufacturers are so limited. They are in over 99% incomplete.

You only can guide and create audio when you can read and understand the properties. There is no other way to understand it and control it. All other ways of doing audio are all based on gambling.

Tru-Fi is over 300% more effective than any silly trial and error way of doing audio. That is why you need to understand that trial and error is so F. limited.

When I read oem-wheels his reaction I can read that the way he is doing audio (trial and error) will not give him full access to all the properties and talents of these cables. It is that simple.

But when you use loudspeakers, sources, amps, pre amps and even conditioners who own all the different properties of sound these cables will give him so much more quality. It will create a much bigger difference.

Based on tha fact that you alsways listen to all the different properties of all parts in your system togheter. The biggest problem in audio is that most products and even brands als incomplete. What is missing will never be there to be revealed.

Because you work by trial and error you have no F. idea which properties each single part has. Then it is never possible to understand what you are doing when you change a part in your system.

got my 1st Hurricane power cord in about 3 weeks ago.. placed it between the wall and power strip.. what I noticed was the bass got more detailed.. not a huge difference but better.. and that's about it.. ordering my 2nd Hurricane this weekend and plan on placing it between the strip and amp..

Is Tru-Fi your brand of wires?

Our latest Statement Audio Pro-measurement gives us access to much more details and layers than any other pre amp can create.

This makes these cables in effectness so much bigger. You need to be able to reveal as much details and layers as possible.

But....most audio products are incomplete in properties on facts. The people who own these products have no idea what they miss and which properties these products own.

When people own products who are incomplete (over 99% of all audio products are incomplete) these cables will loose a lot of the quality they could create.

I did read the reactions of all the people about the AQ powercables. I see a lot of pain and irritation. And I understand them all. These reactions made me call Audioquest to do something to make a change in the world of audio.

In the last months I got several messages of people who wants advice about their audio systems. There is only one way to help them and that is to visit them. And give demoes in the US as well. We need some time to think how we can work this out.

I want to give another example.

In August we visited a new client for the first time. He bought an Oled and a poweramp and pre amp from us. And a networkplayer and many different cables.

We wanted to have an idea about his old stuff so we first started to listen to his system as it was. We were surprised how small the influence was of the different AQ cables we sold.

But when we replaced the amp,pre amp and source we sold we came into a different world. And the cables had a huge influence on the whole system.

That is why Tru-Fi is over 300% more effective than any trial and error way to create an audio system. You need all the properties of sound to get the best out of the Audioquest cables.

He owned products of brands you all know. They had great (paid) reviews and that was why he bought it. But mannn they where all based on facts 2-dimensional. And there was almost no diversity in sound. And even the individual focus of voices and instruments was very limited.

This proofs how easy it is to get a wrong idea about the real quality of a product. I have met many people who have the same kind of limitations.

This week we visited a new client. He visited first a client of mine who lives near his city. He also visited me at home. So I could explain him what all the different parts are of sound.

We also listened first to his system. The stage was 2-dimensional and all voices and instruments where standing on the same line. The thing what was the biggest problem was the acoustic. Most of his own music he could not play in this house. It was the worst acoustic in over 8 years I visited ( all the time you had a big humm in the low freq). He owned a dac and streamer of about 4500 euro. There was almost no diversity and the focus was very poor.

We put his speakers with professional lasers on the same line and hight. And we used digital levelers to place the speaker the right way.

Before this we listend to some music. After this we showed him how big the differences where when everything was leveled.

After the S.A.P-measurement we started to listen to all the extreme songs with the most acoustic problems. Each individual song you could listen without any kind of acoustic limitation. The resolution was superior. And the layers of voices and instruments where divers as they should be.

Now we listend to a deep and wide stage. And voices and instruments where all fysical apparent and free from eachother.

We gave him the freedom to be able to play each single song he wants to listen.

It is one of my personal goals to bring many people to a 3-dimensional stage, with all the layers and without acoustic limitations. And this is possible now even for prices many people can afford.

i know pal you hear things i don't and i envy you. i can't even imagine that wire can do such wundabar thingies.

I feel the need for one of my long walks coming on.

I give an example; we created stealth low freqency. It outperforms any other way of letting a subwoofer integrate with the loudspeakers.

I use my Platinum subwoofer till 140hz. I orderd a Dragon high current to test. But.....within 1 minute I knew I would keep it.

I could hear many new parts of recordings I know well. When you switch with the remote between on and off of the subwoofer you have no idea how big the differences are. These are things you need to hear. That is why we need to give presentations all over the world so everyone can hear it.

I still use 3 Purist Audio Limited Edition powercables. And no they will not be replaced by Audioquest powercables. Based on the fact that they own properties Audioquest cannot create.

As you all know I work by properties. This is the only way to understand why the sound and stage of your system is what you hear. The LE makes the stage even bigger and wider than any AQ powercable can create.

But.....there is even more. Jim is also exceptional good in creating powercables. The middle frequencies are also done differently compared to Audioquest. This part I would never want to loose in my system.

Thinking and working by properties is the real art of sound. And mannn this is for me so F. addictive. I listen to real music and after this I look for properties to come as close as possible.

Almost 20 years now I am testing and doing research in both sound&vision. I love them both. We also made huge progress in vision in the last 2 year. And we work the same way. Always by properties, based on the fact that there is no other way to guide and create both sound&vision.

Trial and error needs to get out of the world in sound&vision. It limits millions of people all over the world in quality and guiding both sound&vision. 

I spoke with different people about the CES. They told me that it is dead. And audio was  95% smaller than in the past. How clear you want it to understand that trial and error will not bring anything.

Bo has to write instead of Mike Fremmer that's for sure. He'll make more money.

How could voices have more layers than we thought? I mean, we hear people’s voices everyday, no? 

I've commented in the Part I discussion of this regarding my own positive experience with the AQ Dragon Hi Current which mirror Bo's with the Hurricane

There is one point of Bo's that I think merits expansion however, especially as it departs from the normal "hi-fi" discussion of the impact of a system change

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 comment above is what I had in mind. Firstly to clarify what I believe is Bo's intent the use of the word "layering" is not in its traditional hi-fi sense of soundstage but instead refers to the many layers of interpretation in a given artists's performance. To give a couple of examples -- bass guitar or double bass is often perceived as a single tone and we remark on it's immediacy or profound depth -- but most skilled bass players put all manner of subtle detail into their playing, modulating the dynamics to tiny degrees, adding a hint of vibrato and so on. Likewise with vocalists what you hear is all sorts of subtle inflections, slight shifts in tone and emphasis -- all of which adds immeasurably to the experience and frankly makes you care much less about traditional measures of hi-fi performance.

I believe the AQ cables contribute to this by not only providing a wider channel to get power to the system but more by lowering the noise floor -- the same sorts of impact are to be found by changes such as grounding systems that lower system noise floor -- or by removing interfering acoustic reflections that are muddying the direct recorded sound.

So I strongly recommend you explore these cables in concert with other system tuning efforts aimed at reducing system noise and uncovering all the hidden layers that your recordings contain

That was a nice review bo1972. Thanks

I live in the nothern part of the Netherlands, and here was almost no wind at all. These cables are impressive. And work as a Hurricane in your system.

I also bought a Dragon High Current for my subwoofer and this creates new levels and details in sound. I will  explain this later.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/audioquest-compares-ac-cables

I heard you had some high winds there in the Netherlands recently.  Perhaps that's why the Hurricane worked so well.