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Here’s how Apple could automate stereo pairing for a typical HomePod setup

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/stereo-pair.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>In my <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/30/homepod-stereo-pairing-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HomePod Diary piece[/url] yesterday, I included what was almost a throwaway comment:</p>

<p>One oddity is that you have to assign the left and right channels manually. Given that most people will, I imagine, orientate the speakers so that the volume controls are the right way up, I would have thought a pair of HomePods ought to be able to figure out the channels for themselves. Play a sound through one speaker and then use the directional mics on the other one to figure out whether the sound is coming from the left or right.</p>
<p>It’s a minor quibble, given that it takes seconds to assign them manually, but it slightly offended my sense of technological efficiency that they required me to do it.</p>

<p>Little did I know how many comments that one small suggestion was going to generate …</p>
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