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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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bo1972 OP
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The most people who have audio as a hobby are in a circle from which they cannot get out. They change a part for another to hope to get the sound they are looking for.

But....the facts proof that trial and error does not make clear to them which properties they took out and which they brought in. They all do audio gambling. And this will never make clear what you are doing. 

I want to make people understand that this is the main reason why audio is so ineffective. You only have access to a low level out of each single part in your audio system.


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cleeds
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bo1972
The most people who have audio as a hobby are in a circle from which they cannot get out. They change a part for another to hope to get the sound they are looking for ...
This is a stereotype and, as with many stereotypes, there's a shred of truth to it. But to state that "most people who have audio as a hobby" are subject to this is dubious, at best. There's a whole thread here about audiophiles with long-term equipment ownership and - of those audiophiles I know - most are pretty happy with their systems. We are not "audio gambling."
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Exactly!

The holistic approach is the only one that will render 3D results, squeezing every last drop of sound from each of the components.

Holistic audio is thus akin to holistic medicine.

willemj
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I think I agree with cleeds here. I am sure there are some neurotics 'upgrading' continuously, but there are also many like me who keep much of their gear for years or even decades. Numbers would be hard to come by, but my hunch would be that the most vocal upgraders may also well be the minority. But who knows?
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When I aks the same question to each single person and no one can answer it, it proofs that audio is done by gambling all over the world.

When I aks even to people who work in audio can you tell me what the foundation is how you work in audio?

They often start to hesitate and have no idea what to say. They all admit that they work by trial and error and are listening to the endresult.

When I confront them they often start to laugh and say you are right that we are gambling.

I made the decision at the 3th of july 1998 to learn and understand why an audio system sounds like it sounds and builds the stage like it is being formed.

It looks like they all were sleeping and never had any idea that they all do audio without any kind of foundation. How it is possible that so many human beings all over the world are so stuppid? 

I am affraid that their insight is too limited to be aware that all these years they did audio by pure gambling. For me it is often very difficult to listen to trial and error systems. Because I can count often 10 till over 20 faults in these systems. I always start to look to their eyes and faces.

Then I am aware that they have no idea that they make so many faults. When this would be the level for me to do audio, I would directly look for another job. I would not want to be an inferior born loser to work in audio. 






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