3.5mm Playing on one speaker.

[Honey Beagle]

Hooked up two speakers to my iPad first generation using a 3.5mm Y cord type plug wire. Hooked up the other ends to both external speakers. Only hear sound from one speaker unless I set the listen mode to monoral. This even happens using a radio receiver.

 

[Just_Me_D]

On the iPad, go to Settings → General → Accessibility and then scroll down to "Mono Audio" and make sure the toggle button is OFF.

 

[Honey Beagle]

When I do that then there is sound from one speaker.

 

[metllicamilitia]

I would also check that your audio is set evenly between left and right channels as seen here in my screenshot.

 

[metllicamilitia]

Outside of that, I would verify that your splitter is functioning correctly and it isn’t the splitter that’s bad.

 

[Honey Beagle]

Yes the setting is in the Centre. I did purchase a new 3.5 mm wire recently.

 

[Honey Beagle]

I did locate a different 3.5mm wire. Hooked up to the same Y splitter wire. With taking mononaural off there is now equal sound from both speakers. I will still use the new Y splitter cable that I purched upon arrival.