What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping?


Is there a “golden rule” or rule of thumb when selecting amplifier power in a bi-amp setup? It seems to me that the power should be apportioned according to the demands. Since most of the energy consumption  in sound reproduction is by lows, it stands to reason I should use a much more powerful amplifier for lows than highs, but what ratio of power? 2:1? 10:1? Is there a wrong answer?
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Thanks Erik. The thing that I’m looking to leverage is the impedance curve with a modest amp powering the high frequencies. I have a NAD 2700 for the low frequencies, with 150 watts per channel into 8 ohms, it’s quite capable. The other amp I have is a NAD 3225PE with 40 watts per channel, an integrated amp with external pre-amp in/out jumpers so i can use just the power amp section. The previous setup had that amp acting as the system preamp and low range bi-amp powering the same speakers, and a 3220i for the highs - that combo worked very nicely. The game changer was finding the 2700 amp for a bargain. 
It doesn’t sound like you are getting advice from anyone who has tried bi- amping. I have. First-You just need to try it and see if it sounds good to you. No rules will help guide you in my opinion.  I use two Bedini class A amps to bi-amp. The 25 watt is used for mids and tweeters. The 100 watt is used for woofers. These are excellent sounding amps individually. Bi-amped gives an amazing  improvement. I’ve used them successfully with passive and active crossovers. Fire up the amps you were thinking of using. You can’t hurt anything if you don’t drive the speakers into distortion. 

If the woofers are closer to the floor (as they typically are) you'll probably get some room gain there, so that might need to be considered as well.

The cross-overs can play quite a part in this, just think of how much overlap there can be with 1st order cross-overs. The least complicated way to do this is with identical amps.