the air dielectric


I don't know what the first company was that used a nearly 100% air dielectric in their cables.  Slinkylinks appears to have been doing this all of 20 years ago.  These days, Inakustik stands out to me for the explicitness and full depiction of their careful internal construction.  Something that Skogrand doesn't do.  At the more inexpensive end of the scale, Black Cat Coppertone Flatwave has found a way of implementing this nearly as well but with a lot lower manufacturing costs.

Other brands claim an air dielectric (e.g. DH Labs) but I have yet to see photographic proof.

Who else is really using an air dielectric these days?

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I was going to say Darwin as well. Their ICs are primarily air since the gauge of the silver wire used is so small that it permits only a fraction of the wire's circumference area to make contact with the tubing at any time.

All the best,
Nonoise