Darwin silver IC's or Cabledyne silver IC's?

TheXhadow has a outer and inner barrel. The outer barrel sleeve is aluminum. The inner barrel is solid copper plated with silver.

Not to start an argument here but the whole idea behind Darwin's philosophy is to eliminate the barrel completely. If the anodized coating applied to the aluminum barrel is enough to quell any interaction with the actual contact inside of it, then why not coat a brass barrel and be done with it, saving cost?

We all know, from experience, just how "non conductive" dielectrics mess with the signal on a wire, even when not always in direct contact with it and here you have the contact very snugly placed inside a "non conductive" outer barrel. It is said to be non magnetic, not non conductive, hence the anodized coating, which should stop or address in some part, conductivity.

Granted, this is all theory until someone makes a comparison but from what I'm getting with the Darwins (and for the cost) I'm content with what I have.
Also, has anyone talked to Tony Bender at Darwin cables?

All the best,
Nonoise

No need to have a pissing war amongst one's favorite brand of cables. Every cable maker has their theories and most claim they have the "answer." What works in your system and YMMV. :)

If you read my post there was nothing remotely stated to suggest a pissing contest. I thought this was a friendly discussion.

Absolutely..no pissing contest...just good healthy dialouge. It wouldn't surprise me at all that both Cabledyne and Darwin cables would sound identical. Both companies use .9999 solid silver wire that is Cryogenic treated, and both have their wire going through an air tube. Cabledyne has an additional non magnetic sheath over the tube and the Xhadow connector's they use made by Vampire have gotten excellent reviews and are expensive.
Cabledyne does have some very good engineers that are partner's in the company. Whats interesting is that Cabledyne is using a square wire they claim has better conductivity over the circular wire that Darwin uses. I think thats getting into snake oil territiory.