Air Zone vs Custom Custom

[orpheo]

please elaborate, I'm interested in (I've always found the dmz 'air' technology a bit strange under the fingers anyway)

I guess that's it; the airzone to me, has the fluid feel of the jb, but it doesn't have that upper mid range spike the JB has, because of the 'air' thing, it opens the tone up a bit, as if you slap in an unoriented alnico 5 in a JB, but of course, with Dimarzio's own 'vibe' through it. It's not a 1:1 replacement for a JB, it's still a tonezone in its bones, but the brass baseplate truly shaves off the highs, and the air thing seems to soften the spikes in every part of the EQ.