No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need

b4icu

It goes back to cable manufaturars, mostly provide no relevant data! to sales and the users. None will answer this!

What data do you seek?

b4icu

All qualities they say they give the cables: Cooper purity, use of silver, cryogenic treatment, Bi Wire, Burn In etc’ - has nothing to do with the spec. of a speaker cable. It’s all snake oil mambo jumbo, to cover their and customers ignorance.

I'll ask you a second time: If you don't care for the data being provided by cable manufacturers, what data is it that you seek?

partroysound

The ribbons are from the Infinity IRS.

The Infinity IRS uses planars, not ribbons.

conradnash10-14-2018 10:27am

I may be mistaken here, but isn’t the net effect of this and bi-wiring the same? My understanding is that bi-amping connects one pair of terminals at the amp end along four lengths of wire, connecting to four terminals at the speaker end ...

Yes, you are mistaken. In a two-channel system, biamping uses two stereo amplifiers (or four monoblocs), with a separate amplifier channel used for each LF and HF section of each speaker system.

Ideally, this is done using an active crossover between the preamp and the amplifiers, so that each amp "sees" only the frequencies it will be driving.