Connection problems with Amplifier

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

i'm not really sure about that, but since you have more experience than i do you maybe right, but anyway I've been running just one channel for years now and my left and right ch. on my main out has the same volume level, and if i pan it to either left or right or if i used my optical cd/dvd drive cleaner, i get the the right result , when prompted by the cleaner, i maybe wrong..but i do get stereo effect..

I don't think you get stereo sound as that is impossible from one side (by def. stereo = two separate sides), but you do get both sides summed into one channel (the left side), so it may sound the same from the floor. Stereo is really only effective if you are sitting precisely between two speakers in an acoustically treated room or you have headphones on with each ear on each separate channel (side). In a dance room with speakers fairly close together and people scattered everywhere, the concept of stereo no longer is present, and the summed mono from each speaker is certainly efficient, for the most part.