Blended Mono Speaker.......

Found this on the Net(link below), for bathrooms -

Sonance Blended Mono Speaker
Quote -
'A blended mono speaker that accepts stereo sound and blends both channels to produce a mono output. This is a budget speaker for bathrooms but made to the same high quality as the rest of the Sonance range.'

Are such speakers made for general use, single point 'mono' listening from a stereo signal.

Call me crazy but I like the idea of this .


http://www.hiddenspeakers.com/category.php?id=7

 

You're crazy...

Just kidding. I think the best way to approach this (if a stand-alone system for general use, and not part of a distributed sound system) would be to combine the L/R to mono at line level, and simply use a mono amp or one side of a stereo amp.

 

If we're doing our jobs mixing, one decent quality speaker should sound better than anything available at Wal-Crap.

 

Steve and others: I've found that when playing older Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, as well as a number of Jazz albums, hitting the mono switch gives me a much nicer listening experience (even when not recorded in Duophonic or fake stereo) at a fraction of the cost of finding nice quality monos. Granted, the original monos are nice, but hard to find. Am I missing out on much of the record?

 

Maybe I'm just responding to an offhand remark or an exaggeration to make a point, but I'd sure rather listen to one decent speaker than any cheap boombox. No dynamics and crappy tonal balance don't help a stereo mix.

 

Thanks for the input, i know it's kinda silly, but fun.
My old NAD 3020i amp had a mono switch and it helped a lot with hard 60s stereo seperation, which i find it hard to listen to otherwise.
Also my TV has just a single mono speaker and i sorta like it that way, coming from a single point.