Patent ID: 7069219

Claim:
An acoustic prediction system for providing a user with acoustic response predictions for a modeled loudspeaker system comprised of one or more loudspeakers having known performance characteristics, said system comprising a host computer, a loudspeaker database containing performance characteristics for selected identifiable loudspeakers, and a client computer into which user defined inputs relating to the prediction of the acoustic response of a modeled loudspeaker system can be inputted, said user defined inputs including the identification of a selected one or more loudspeakers whose performance characteristics are contained in said loudspeaker database, said client computer being capable of communicating to the host computer over a communications network the user defined inputs inputted into said client computer, including the user identified loudspeakers, and said the host computer being capable of retrieving from the loudspeaker database the performance characteristics of the loudspeakers identified by user defined inputs inputted into the client computer, and being capable of computing the acoustic response of the modeled loudspeaker system based on said user defined inputs and the performance characteristics of the identified loudspeakers retrieved from the loudspeaker database, and further being capable of returning to the client computer the acoustic response of the modeled loudspeaker system predicted by the computation of the host computer.