What is the best dielectric?

There are several manufacturers using rectangular conductors with the narrow sides within a teflon tube. This means that the majority of the conductor has an air dielectric or in the case of the Stage III with a vacuum dielectric. Townshend is the other manufacturer that I know of. I also have some ics with a silver wire spiraled within a teflon tube also minimizing the conductor's contact the teflon. These were made by Bogdan.

Cpk - there are several cables made with oversized tubes (most of Audioquest, Acoustic Zen). I'm not sure if tubes have air or nitrogen inside. Material of the tube itself can be polyethylene, foamed polyethylene, teflon, foamed teflon - depending on the price of the cable.

On my sensitive system, dielectric's very audible noise is proportional to the thickness of the dielectric.

The conversation here says to me the idea of minimizing dielectric presence has caught on. That is a good thing.

I use a very short, very very thin 12 gauge ribbon for my SCs. to prevent shorting, I loosely wrap the ribbons in saran wrap. This is very thin, and it touches the ribbon in few places. It works. I don't hear any of the haze and fizz I hear with commercial SCs.

Muralman - additional problem with speaker cables is skin depth. There is no skin effect down to gauge 18 within 20kHz audible range but my cables are gauge 7 (necessary or not). Splitting conductor into many (isolated) helps since surface area is increased but effect is still there (combined magnetic field is increased). Now the trick is to arrange wires in pattern minimizing addition of magnetic fields. Audioquest does "Hellical", others have different sometimes strange looking schemes. Acoustic Zen has over sized Teflon tubes (air tubes) with multiple conductors (about 10) plus one with multiple strands. Weave pattern is sort of hellical.

Have you tried Au24 - it has very thin dielectric?

Kijanki, the proof is in the playing. Having been trained in the sciences, I look at the job the SC has to do and formulate a best means to assist the SC in it's job.

It was hearing a Shunyata Helical SC that convinced me I had to find a replacement for my magnet wire.

What I figured is, the music signal is running at near the speed of light in a wave pulse form. giving the signal a lot of pathways with varying currents of mirror signals seems counterproductive. I wanted a very thin ribbon because I did not want wire crosstalk, or the intensely small music wave to bounce around a solid wire.

The woven strand wire I dismissed out of hand due to having tried many forms. The theory is better than the practice. The solid magnet wire had very special midrange. Somehow the solid wire resists the highs and lows to a certain degree.

Ribbons proved very successful in systems I am familiar with in Europe. They are easy to try. The copper ribbon I chose is .003" thick. I turned my monos around to make the SCs as short as possible. That way, I didn't have to worry about capacitance.

All I had to do is prove my hypothesis. When I hit play on my transport I literally fell backwards as the huge stage changed burst upon me. The proof was more than I dreamed of. Highs and lows opened up, depth blew out into the wilderness, and detail detail detail.

Obviously my 1 ohm speakers are getting all the current they crave.