This works fine if you are sitting exactly halfway between the two speakers.

"China is not alone in this," said a plump oriental woman sitting halfway down the table.

It's sitting halfway in between, not knowing where to turn.

And then I did see him: a small figure, sitting on a granite boulder halfway around the lake.

For a moment I sat with spoon halfway between bowl and mouth.

Hoshi sat halfway up, getting ready to bolt from the bed.

His telephone sat on a small table halfway down.

She was sitting in a chair halfway to the door.

He sat halfway up a tree - all black - with flames coming out of him.

After dinner he sat halfway up the wide stairs to the second floor.