Multi-zone audio system with integrated cross-zone and zone-specific tuning

An audio system configured to deliver audio to a plurality of listening zones, the system comprising:

• multiple acoustic transducers disposed in the plurality of listening zones;
• zone-specific circuitry corresponding to one or more of the plurality of listening zones;
• a cross-zone equalization filter configured to control one or more of the acoustic transducers to generate a target acoustic distribution across multiple listening zones;
• and
• an adjustment engine comprising one or more processing devices, the adjustment engine configured to:
• receive information indicative of a volume setting corresponding to each listening zone of the plurality of listening zones,
• generate a zone-specific adjustment signal for each of the plurality of listening zones, wherein the zone-specific adjustment signal for a given listening zone accounts for a cross-zone effect associated with a volume setting corresponding to another listening zone, and is configured to adjust an output of the corresponding zone-specific circuitry,
• generate an additional adjustment signal configured to adjust an output of the cross-zone equalization filter, wherein each of (i) the zone-specific adjustment signals and (ii) the additional adjustment signal is configured to adjust corresponding audio signals from a same audio source, and
• wherein the zone-specific adjustment signals and the additional adjustment signal are combined to generate an output from at least one of the multiple acoustic transducers.

One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage devices having encoded thereon computer readable instructions for causing one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

• receiving information indicative of a volume setting corresponding to each listening zone of a plurality of listening zones associated with a multi-zone audio system;
• generating a zone-specific adjustment signal for each of the plurality of listening zones,
• wherein the zone-specific adjustment signal for a given listening zone accounts for a cross-zone effect associated with a volume setting corresponding to another listening zone, and
• wherein the zone-specific adjustment signal is configured to adjust an output of corresponding zone-specific circuitry;
• generating an additional adjustment signal configured to adjust an output of a cross-zone equalization filter, wherein the output of the cross-zone equalization filter is configured to generate a target acoustic distribution across multiple listening zones, and wherein each of (i) the zone-specific adjustment signals and (ii) the additional adjustment signal is configured to adjust corresponding audio signals from a same audio source;
• and
• causing generation of an output of an acoustic transducer of the multi-zone audio system based on the zone-specific adjustment signals and the additional adjustment signal.