Patent ID: 6895378

Claim:
A method of providing a user with acoustic response predictions for a modeled loudspeaker system comprised of one or more loudspeakers having known performance characteristics, said method comprising providing a loudspeaker database containing performance characteristics for selected identifiable loudspeakers, said database being accessible by a host computer, under the control of the host computer, receiving a request over a communications network from a client computer for the prediction of the acoustic response of a modeled loudspeaker system in a defined space based on user defined inputs sent from the client computer, said user defined inputs including the identification of selected one or more loudspeakers, under the control of the host computer, retrieving from the loudspeaker database the performance characteristics of the loudspeakers identified by the request from the client computer, using the host computer to compute the acoustic response of the modeled loudspeaker system based on the user defined inputs from said client computer and the performance characteristics of the identified loudspeakers retrieved from the loudspeaker database, and over the computer network, returning to the client computer the acoustic response of the modeled loudspeaker system predicted by the computation of the host computer.