Launched this week
Nearfield
Turn two or more Studio Displays into stereo speakers
58 followers
Turn two or more Studio Displays into stereo speakers
58 followers
Nearfield is a native, open-source Mac app that combines the speakers in two Apple Studio Displays into one volume-controllable stereo output. Swap left and right, adjust balance, and use app and window based audio routing. Requires Apple silicon, two Studio Displays, and macOS 14+.
genuinely delightful use of hardware nobody else bothered to combine. I've got an M4 Pro mini with a single display so I can't test this myself, but I'm curious about the failure case: if one of the two displays goes to sleep or gets unplugged mid-playback, does macOS just lose that channel and you're stuck with mono out of one speaker, or does Nearfield detect it and fail over cleanly to a single-display stereo/mono mix without you having to go dig through sound settings?
Hey @vince_pataky ,
Congratulations on the launch, I don't have two studio displays to provide feedback with I'm afraid. I did want to say I found this idea very novel when I saw it. I'm surprised Apple doesn't support this. 😀
Hope you hear back from someone who can test. Congratulations again!