If you isobaric mount subs, the phase angle comes in very handy. Subsonic is typically used for ported boxes so you dont have the amp producing sound below its tuning frequency, or simply below 20hz as we cannot hear below that anyways, so you would just be wasting power. Low pass is a filter that keeps your sub from producing too high of frequencies, basically it cuts off your frequencies below say 80hz.
If they're both wired to the same amp the phase adjustment will affect both equally making its use in that situation pointless. The opint of phase adjustment on the sub is to get the subs in phase with teh midbasses and minimize cancellation in that freq range.