Audioquest Tornado Constant Current

Description

Audioquest Tornado Constant Current

The Audioquest Tornado constant current is a high-performance audiophile power cable that will suit any high-end system. Tornado is available in both high-current (for amplifiers) and constant current variants (for source components) to match your exact requirements.

Optimised for use with source components (disc players, DACs, high-performance turntables, preamplifiers, etc.), AudioQuest’s Tornado Source AC cable is an outstanding choice for audiophiles, home theater enthusiasts, and audio/video professionals seeking to upgrade their systems.

With AudioQuest’s Tornado delivering uncompressed current, you’ll experience cleaner, clearer, more naturally beautiful and thrilling sound.

Available with C13 and C19 connectors, Tornado is a step up from Thunder and one model down from Hurricane in AudioQuest’s flagship Storm Series—the very best the company presently offers.

Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) and Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors
A carefully finessed combination of solid high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) and extreme high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper + (PSC+) conductors to prevent strand interaction, a major source of ear fatiguing transient intermodulation distortion. The astonishingly smooth and pure Perfect-Surface Copper eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other premium coppers. The superior purity of PSC+ further minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries, which exist within any metal conductor.

ZERO-Tech
With current capacity of 20 amps RMS @ 125VAC 50/60Hz (16 amps RMS @ 220-240VA 50/60Hz), Tornado/High (Variable) Current can withstand current transient peaks many times its continuous (average) RMS rating. This makes Tornado/High (Variable) Current ideally suited for a wide assortment of AC power conditioners, power regenerators, AC isolation transformers, and AC battery back-up devices, as well as any power amplifier, powered subwoofer, powered loudspeaker, powered receiver, or integrated amplifier.

RF/ND-Tech
AC Ground wires may provide protection from an electrical short circuit, but they also act as an antenna. Thus, they are subject to induced radio-frequency (RF) noise. This RF noise bypasses component power supplies and is typically coupled directly into a system’s most sensitive audio/video circuits. AudioQuest’s RF/ND-Tech greatly reduces this distortion, yielding unprecedented levels of Noise-Dissipation across the widest bandwidth (range) of radio frequencies possible. Our unique circuit topology uses a common-mode phase-cancelling array, in concert with proprietary dielectric materials which provide additional differential linear filtering. US Patent # 8,988,168.

72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS)
Insulation is also a dielectric that can act like a shunt-filter. Biasing minimises dielectric-noise and linearises the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced RF noise.

Directionality
All drawn metal strands or conductors have a non-symmetrical, and therefore directional, grain structure. AudioQuest controls the resulting RF impedance variation so that noise is drained away from where it will cause distortion. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. When applicable, arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For most models of AQ cable, the arrows not only indicate the direction that optimises metal-directionality as part of Noise-Dissipation, but also indicates non-symmetrical attachment of shield and GND in order to optimise full-system performance.

• High Purity Conductors: A carefully finessed combination of solid high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper and extreme high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper + conductors to prevent strand interaction, a major source of ear fatiguing transient intermodulation distortion.
• 72v Dielectric Bias System: Insulation is also a dielectric that can act like a shunt-filter. Biasing minimises dielectric-noise and linearises the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced RF noise.

Specifications Audioquest Tornado Constant Current

• Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)
• Hanging-Silver Red-Copper Plugs
• NDS plus Carbon DBS Pack
• Uncompressed High-Current Transfer
• Ground Noise Dissipation Technology (US Patent # 9,373,439)
• Zero Characteristic Impedance (50Hz – 1MHz)
• 72VDC Dielectric Bias System (US Patent #7,126,055)
• Directionally Controlled Conductors