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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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guidocorona
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My apologies of Mystical One.... I had misspelled... I should have written Doppelganger.... My dirt-scraping apologies.


I am so lowly a loser  audiofool that I am not even sure what a "foundation" might be... Want to try to enlighten me, as futile a quest might it be?


G.


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2psyop
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If you stay tuned, you all are in for a fun educational ride. You may even cry tears...
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bo1972 OP
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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.
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bo1972 OP
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Dear G,

i just looked in your comments and could see that you have the insight in audio at the level of a child. And maybe you don't like to read it, which I understand. But....it is the truth. 

I understand that this is hard to hear, but  it is as it is :)
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twoleftears
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Hurrah!  Bo is back.

Munching on a snack of Tru-Food© to sustain me through this latest installment.

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