Subwoofer cable question

IF you ran all your subs off just the right channel do you think all of the bass track on the source recording will be reproduced?

Below 80 Hz, yes. The recording studio examples you are talking about is different. Drums, bass, etc have lots of output above 80Hz. This higher frequency output is what determines stereo L and R and gives us imaging. Below 80Hz simply does not do that. It is not a question of how it was recorded. That doesn’t even enter into it. Because the waves are so long, when playing back it no longer matters.

The proof of that is while you can hear a difference in the recording studio you cannot with just the subs at home. I have run them every which way just to prove this to myself. Also a lot of subs that have L and R channel inputs, if you look at the circuit diagram they are summed inside. L and R are there for convience.

Can’t say as I blame them. If the cost is an extra irrelevant RCA connector vs answering this same question a hundred times a day till the heat death of the universe I would throw in the RCA too.

Thus, clearly, the device above is useless, unnecessary, superfluous, and ill-advised.

Even now after years of clarification still we have members sharing misinformation. Please do a search and read through all the excellent factual information provided by myself, Tim, Duke and of course the research papers by Geddes, et al. These all make perfectly clear the fact sub bass is not directional, there is no "ambience", it is not stereo, and the one sure way to better bass is not to have a bigger more powerful sub but to have it coming from more locations.

If you rely on comments at least filter them to eliminate the ones who don't know, because they never actually did this stuff. For example, I know subs are mono from having run multiple subs every way imaginable. Stereo, mono, L channel, R channel, one, four, five, in phase out of phase all kinds of phase, on and on. Every time you see someone talking about stereo bass, timing, anything like that, do not take it at face value. Dig deep to see where that is coming from. Almost always it is repeating what someone else said, without ever once trying to see if it is true or not.

Do your own due diligence, please.

All subs are mono. That's just life below 80.