AIR CABLE THREAD ANYONE?

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peacebro
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I knew a guy back in the 90's in the hifi business who was making cables based on air ventilation. I don't think he could get the investment in marketing and production though.
 

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The best dialectric is air. Actually, the best is vacuum, but that's a touch more tricky in practice. The problem is that with 'normal' cables in hifi use, it's effectively impossible to use air as a complete dialectric, as you need something to support the conductor and keep it in place. For low signal level use, you also need screening, and to be properly effective the screen needs to be relatively close to the conductor, so a physically solid dialectric is often the only sensible solution.

Nevertheless, the practical differences are so small here that I doubt the insulator (or lack thereof) is likely to have any real effect. IME, the actual wire construction (solid core, stranded or Litz) is the one thing that has an apparent and repeatable effect.
 

Southeastern

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Bit on the pricey side for the Air cables

3m single wired terminated, £5900

But they do look very nice and I would definitely enjoy putting a set up against my Cardas Clears but I doubt there will be many hitting the used market anytime soon.

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awkwardbydesign

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If you strip out the copper from an old aerial cable, the type with several air pockets, you can slide in your preferred cable pair and create an air dielectric IC. An old idea, quite possibly from TNT Audio. I did it many years ago, just for the fun of it.
 

Nativebon

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Ultimately these are the kind of add-ons for six figure systems and above. Personally I feel most of the advanced technologies are disproportionate to sonic gains, taking into account the effort and cost of producing the product.
But who is to say how one spends their money.
 
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MF 1000

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All we need as someone good on cad and a 3d printer and we could prob replicate them 😁
 

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