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Speaker placement for side - lying in bed

suggestions for a shut down timer when approaching sleep time...
Hope you get the appropriate support from your human surrounding. It's a challenging situation anyway. Do you really bother with a textbook stereo impression? Maybe it is time to re-evaluate the merits of such an approach. Look, I myself never listened to a real stereo for years. I have it all, top-notch linearity, absence of distortion, best directivity, narrow or wide with big or small speakers, good amplification, 24bit sources, but sitting at least 30° off-center. I actually cannot stand the irritation that a conventional stereo presents - I rather drop it.

The LS50s are a bit small for most use cases. A sub won't help in too many situations either. Get something like the R3s with a bit of e/q if not meta approved, and I really hope it'll make your day. All the enjoyment is in the imagination. Some device will support it more, but, It is all up to the personal involvement.
 
I came across Polk Audio speakers designed for placing around outdoors, e.g. for pool parties. Each unit can accept two inputs in order to output stereo one by one (dual cones internally), or act as half a stereo pair at the flip of a switch.

Not that I'm considering, just curious, but is that as unusual a design as I'm thinking?
 
Can you link to those speakers?
 
Polk Audio Atrium 8 SDI, this is "the flagship" of the series.


A local FBM listing led me to the 6 version, a bunch going very cheap, but no longer available.
 
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Oh I see, one of those dual tweeter setups. My assumption with those has always been that you won't get any meaningful stereo separation and you may as well just do mono. But, it's certainly something you could try if you can pick one up for cheap.
 
If I want to A/B experiment with mono without a switch equipped pre-amp, what is a recommended switch? ideally standalone to work with anything...
 
If I want to A/B experiment with mono without a switch equipped pre-amp, what is a recommended switch? ideally standalone to work with anything...
How about a passive monitor controller/attenuator?
Like this https://www.thomann.de/intl/behringer_monitor1.htm

Pretty much the cheapest way that's universal, many models available with mono switches. Any imbalance between channels due to cheap pots would be irrelevant in your use case.
 
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