Enquiry regarding iPad Air 5 speaker.

On an iPad Air 5th generation there are only two speakers, not four.

The additional grilles are only a matter of "aesthetics".

Regards

Giulio

To be clear, your iPad physically has one speaker on the top - and one speaker on the bottom. Sound will be heard from both the top and bottom speaker.

When in Landscape orientation, the two physical speakers will produce a left/right stereo pair.

When in Portrait orientation, the left and right stereo channels will be from the top and bottom of the iPad.

Of the four grilles - two on the top edge - and two on the bottom edge - only one of each has a physical speaker.

Don’t be fooled by your iPad Air seemingly having four speaker grilles. Your iPad Air has only two speakers - not four as found in models of iPad Pro.

Recent models of iPad Air have one speaker at top and bottom - such that what viewed in Landscape orientation, you will have a left/right stereo pair.

You can verify and compare iPad specifications here:

https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?modelList=ipad-pro-12-9-6th-gen,ipad-air-5th-gen,ipad-air-4th-gen

As a point of interest, older models of iPad Air had two speakers on the bottom edge of the iPad - one placed either side of the Lightning port. For these models, with the iPad positioned in Landscape orientation, both speakers were to one side of the screen.

No. With the iPad in Portrait/vertical orientation, you will have one speaker on top - and one on the bottom.