An audio system comprises an audio server and a plurality of speaker clients. The audio server comprises a detection subsystem that detects a speaker client of the plurality of speaker clients, a location determination subsystem that determines a location of the speaker client, and a configuration transmission subsystem that transfers configuration data to configure acoustic characteristics of the speaker client, based at least in part on the determined location of the speaker client, for the speaker client to perform as a particular type of speaker. The speaker client comprises a configuration subsystem that configures the acoustic characteristics of a speaker client to perform as a particular type of speaker based upon the configuration data sent by the audio server. The invention also comprises a product, namely an audio system, and a method to process audio portions of media content.