Why would you say: " No one actually knows how to
calculate what speaker cable they need", when I just said I do?
Audio, as many other things is based on science. Not just listening and likes.
All that knowledge that been put into the equipment is coming from calculation
and monticules design.
Not by audiophiles that tried all possible options and ended up with one they like most.
This fact, of "No one actually knows how to calculate what speaker cable they need" is very sad. I'm in this hobby for 45 years, and it's time to change that.
During that long period of time, many firms took advantage of our ignorance, telling tells of ferry tails for tons of money, spent for their benefit, rather than ours.