Patent ID: 7096169

Claim:
A system for demonstrating acoustic performance to consumers in order to evaluate different speakers, comprising: a user interface for selecting options for a consumer, including a selected demonstration speaker model from a plurality of available demonstration speaker models; a series of stored first characteristic samples reflecting the performance of the plurality of demonstration speaker models, wherein the first characteristic samples are empirically derived; one or more acoustic input samples for processing to an acoustic output; a processor for processing an acoustic input sample and a first characteristic sample corresponding to a selected demonstration speaker model; a reference speaker model for outputting an acoustic signal based on the result of the processing; the processing compensating for the performance characteristic of the reference speaker and the performance characteristic of the selected demonstration speaker so as to mimic the performance of the selected demonstration speaker while avoiding bias from the reference speaker; wherein the outputted acoustic signal provides an accurate representation of the performance of the selected demonstration speaker model outputting the acoustic input sample to the consumer; and further wherein the user interface permits the consumer to select a different demonstration speaker for processing to an acoustic output in order to compare performance between selected speaker models.