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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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.







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..
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.


@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