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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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.



guido, thanks. I guess I will pick up one.  I don’t know when Bo’s Audioquest cables will be available, but I probably will not be able to afford them unless I sell my Yacht.
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.