Patent ID: 8705755

Claim:
An audio system comprising a configuration, the configuration selected based on a method comprising: generating acoustic signals from at least one loudspeaker placed at potential loudspeaker locations; recording transfer functions for the generated acoustic signals at a plurality of listening positions where the transfer functions includes either or both an amplitude component or a phase component and where the transfer function is a measure of an acoustical aspect of the frequency response; determining potential configurations of the audio system; modifying the transfer functions based on the potential configurations so that predicted transfer functions are generated at each of at least two of the plurality of listening positions for each of the potential configurations of the audio system, the predicted transfer functions representing simulations for the potential configurations of the audio system; accessing a criterion by which to statistically analyze the predicted transfer functions; statistically analyzing using the criterion across at least one frequency of the predicted transfer functions for the at least two of the plurality of listening positions; and selecting a configuration to improve for the criterion at the at least two of the plurality of listening positions based on the statistical analysis, wherein selecting a configuration comprises selecting a value for at least one parameter including either a number of loudspeakers and a type of loudspeaker.