The new iPad mini has no speaker holes. The display itself is the speaker.
Apple calls it Acoustic Display: woofers are paired through the screen, so the glass pushes the bass out the front. The highs come from custom tweeters hidden in the seam between the glass and the aluminium. No grilles means a sealed body, and that’s how the iPad mini gets an IP67 rating for the first time.
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Sources: Apple Newsroom (apple.com/newsroom), MacRumors. Product images: Apple.