What is the best dielectric?


A vacuum is the best dielectric? Since this is not pratical would air be the next best dielectric or would there be a better sounding dielectric like cotton?
Would there be a difference for speaker wire or interconnects?
Thanks
cdc
AFAIK foamed Teflon in oversized tubes gives the lowest dielectric constant close to 1 (air).
microporous ptfe is 1.4 - 1.5 depending density, no oversizing, that's good for gases not solids, it will only increase dc..
Oversizing should lower dielectric constant since air has lower DC than teflon. As for the difference with IC or speaker cable - capacitance of the wire is straight proportional to area and dielectric constant and reverse proportional to distance. Some teflon IC have as lo as 3pF per foot while typical shielded generic cable has about 25-30pF per foot. Dielectric absorbtion (proportional to dielectric constant and lowest for the teflon) is a process of storing some energy in capacitor's dielectric. Completely discharged capacitor can charge itself back recovering energy from dielectric. It is usually very slow and I don't know what effect it has on audio signals.
AFAIK foamed Teflon in oversized tubes
Oversizing should lower dielectric constant since air has lower DC than teflon

The first quote would indicate oversized tubes filled with microporous PTFE, perhaps you meant, 'made of', which would go along with the second quote.

exposure to the atmosphere and having a loose conductor are draw backs to this but yes the dc is lower