Stereo to mono

I'm building a case and want to mount speakers in the front. I have some cheapo little external speakers at the chopping block, and a space the size of 8 drive bays available.

Being an audio slob, I'm insensible to how the speakers are positioned. I'm even considering splicing both channels into a single speaker, rather than having two side-by-side.

Suggestions?

Nice! I went mono for a while because I couldnt get the right positioning with stereo.
Instead of making the switch to mono through wiring I used Foobar 2k's option to downmix everything to mono.

I'm thinking to have these/this general purpose case front speaker on a switch, then a regular stereo speaker jack so I can still connect real speakers someday. Maybe do that like a headphone jack so it cancels out the speakers it's tapping when you plug it in? Anyone know how that works?

This inline adapter should get you mono.

http://www.radioshack.com/product.a..._name=CTLG_007_002_001_001&product_id=274-882

I need to go from the internal motherboard headers, though - L/R outs and L/R returns - 4 pins. The simplicity of that Radio Shack item does suggest I try the obvious solution. I'll splice the two outs, and also the two returns, through one amplified speaker.