... what is considered low capacitance for an IC?
There are no hard and fast thresholds, of course, and the total capacitance of the cable, which is what matters, is directly proportional to its length. But as a rough rule of thumb, I would consider 20 pf/foot or less to be low, 20 to 40 pf/foot to be medium, and more than 40 pf/foot or so to be highish.
Blue Jeans LC-1, as you’ve seen, is about 12 pf/foot.
"pf," by the way, is short for picofarads. 1 pf = one trillionth of a farad, a farad being the basic unit of capacitance, although 1 farad represents an **extremely** large amount of capacitance, at least in the context of electronic devices.
Best regards,
-- Al