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Lol mono still sucks. Your just getting a flat sound. Its not like stereo which is more vibrant and dimensional. If you cant tell the difference coming out of your speakers well then you need your hearing checked. Its not about a sweet spot, again it just sounds more alive and dimensional. This recording guy has some good points.
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How can your clients and friends they tell the difference if all your offering is mono sound lol. Your not giving them any other option. Its just loud and flat. It works dont get me wrong. I know because I played in mono for about 3 months before I got my final amp for the subs.
Id say only a handful of "sound guys" know what their doing. In all my years of DJn in venues there has been only a small number of them that had their sound right. Its only recently that new clubs are getting better at it. From my experience they mostly got shitty results because they dont know how to tie everything together correctly. Especially since most venues use passive, multiple speaker systems. So in that sense mono is really the cheap way to go. For example I know tons of guys who run the JBL SRX system mono because of that. They'd rather buy one amp and daisy chain in mono then do it right and spend money on a separate amps for each speaker. Its a matter of cost in most cases. Again mono is cheaper to run for pretty much any venue using multiple speakers.
Hey its cool if you like the mono sound, more power to you.
I watched the link. I can understand this for live sound, jazz concert or a movie. But let's take an example where the club or bar has no "front" or "stage". Your patrons are facing different directions. You have speakers not just in the front, but you have 8+ speakers, maybe 4 in one bar area, 6 more on a dance floor. At what point is this "sound area re-creation" concept even valid? I had this discussion more than once doing installations and re-installs at bars with people (sound people, not customers).
And then there's the cost point. A good amp bridged mono running 2 tops outputs more power in mono/parallel connected than the same amp running 2 tops in stereo.
I think the stereo point becomes less and less important as you go from a home theater environment ("sweet spot") to a bar / restaurant / club environment. Even take a wedding or party in a banquet hall. You're not just setting up 2 tops and a sub, then you get into areas/zones, the dinner area, the dance area, all these speakers are competing for "which side is left or right" when your patrons are all facing different directions.
Someone used the example of Wu Tang's CREAM - and there's many songs with that left / right stereo positioning. Actually there's lots of songs recorded in 2 channel Dolby Pro Logic, which again due to the phasing can do strange things if you're running LEFT channel only vs summed MONO, because the surround channel will not be cancelled out, leaving odd sound artifacts of the surround channel which is actually inverted mono between the LEFT and RIGHT sides - normally cancelled out in summed MONO, but if you only have the one channel plugged in, that additional sound information is fully audible.
In fact, if you take a 1/4" TRS balanced input (to a speaker, amp) and plug it into a stereo headphone jack on a mixer, and play a track with Dolby Pro Logic, you can hear JUST the surround track on that, because the +/- balanced signal is recieving JUST the differential mono between the Left and Right sides.
