Audioquest Tornado 72V DBS C19 (high current) 3m

The Audioquest Tornado High Current represents the culmination of decades of research in power supply for high-fidelity audio. Specifically designed for devices with high current demands, this cable incorporates exclusive patented technologies that transform the quality of your home theater equipment’s power supply. With its 16-amp capacity at 220-240V and ultra-pure PSC+ copper conductors, it is aimed at discerning audiophiles who refuse to compromise on the quality of their audio system.

Revolutionary Conductor Technologies

At the heart of the Tornado High Current lies a carefully orchestrated combination of PSC (Perfect-Surface Copper) and PSC+ (Perfect-Surface Copper+) conductors. This proprietary Audioquest technology far surpasses traditional industry standards such as OFHC or OCC.

PSC+ copper achieves an exceptional level of purity that eliminates strand-to-strand interactions, a major source of transient intermodulation distortion. This extreme purity significantly reduces distortions caused by grain boundaries present in all conventional metal conductors. The perfectly polished surface of these conductors ensures signal transmission with remarkable clarity, eliminating the harshness typical of lower-quality copper.

Controlled directionality of the conductors is another sophisticated technical aspect of the Tornado High Current. This orientation optimizes current transmission in the metal’s preferred direction, thereby reducing micro-distortions that can affect the performance of the most sensitive amplifiers.

Optimized High-Current Management

The Tornado High Current excels in its ability to handle transient current peaks, a major challenge for any audio power supply system. With its rated capacity of 16 effective amps at 220-240V, it can withstand current spikes several times higher than this average value. This feature is crucial for power amplifiers whose consumption varies dramatically depending on volume and musical content.

Audioquest’s ZERO-Tech technology eliminates characteristic impedance across the 50Hz-1MHz band, allowing current to flow without compression or restriction. This technical achievement sets the Tornado High Current apart from conventional power cables, which tend to compress audio transients due to their high characteristic impedance.

The 72V DC dielectric bias system (US patent #7,126,055) maintains a constant electric charge on the cable’s insulation, reducing interactions between conductors and dielectric. This continuous polarization improves transmission linearity and minimizes dielectric distortions, a phenomenon often overlooked in standard power cables.

Active Electromagnetic Interference Reduction

The Ground Noise-Dissipation technology (US patent #9,373,439) is one of the most remarkable innovations of the Tornado High Current. The ground conductors in power cables act as antennas, picking up radio frequency interference that is omnipresent in today’s electromagnetic environment. These interferences bypass device power supplies and directly contaminate the most sensitive audio-video circuits.

Audioquest’s proprietary system uses a common-mode phase-cancelling network topology, combined with specialized dielectric materials that provide additional linear differential filtering. This multilayered approach ensures noise dissipation across the widest possible radio frequency bandwidth, far exceeding the performance of conventional filtering solutions.

The effectiveness of this technology is especially noticeable in high-resolution systems, where RF interference masks low-level details, reducing dynamics and sonic transparency. The Tornado High Current thus reveals musical nuances usually buried in electrical background noise.

Extensive Applications and Compatibility

The Tornado High Current finds its ideal place in demanding home theater setups, particularly for powering power amplifiers, power conditioners, and powered subwoofers. Its ability to handle current peaks makes it the preferred partner for multichannel amplifiers and energy-hungry digital audio processing systems.

Power conditioners and regenerators particularly benefit from its transmission qualities, as they must both receive and redistribute high power without degradation. Isolation transformers and battery backup power systems also see their performance optimized by the cable’s low characteristic impedance.

For high-end powered speakers and active subwoofers, the Tornado High Current ensures stable power delivery even during the most demanding musical passages. Its design allows integrated amplifiers to instantly draw the energy needed for dynamic transients without compression or limitation.

Technical Specifications

Electrical Capacity

• Maximum capacity: up to 20 A at 125 V or 16 A at 220-240 V

Transmission Technology

• Uncompressed transmission – ZERO-Tech Technology
  • Zero characteristic impedance: current transmitted without loss, even under high demand
  • Elimination of dynamic compression

Conductors and Materials

• PSC / PSC+ copper conductors
  • Ultra-pure, polished surface copper alloy
  • Reduced distortion and improved clarity
  • More natural sound
  • Controlled directionality to minimize interference

Noise Reduction

• Active noise reduction – RF/ND-Tech Technology
  • Elimination of RF interference picked up by the ground
  • Advanced noise dissipation thanks to an exclusive topology
• DBS System (72 V)
  • Continuous insulation polarization
  • Reduction of dielectric noise and improved signal linearity
  • Enhanced clarity across the entire bandwidth

Applications

• Ideal for power conditioners, amplifiers, active speakers, subwoofers, and AV receivers