System and user interface for producing acoustic response predictions via a communications network

A hosting system for an acoustic prediction system which provides a user with acoustic response predictions for a modeled loudspeaker system comprised of one or more loudspeakers having known performance characteristics, said hosting system comprising

• a loudspeaker database containing performance characteristics for selected identifiable loudspeakers,
• a host computer capable of receiving a request over a communications network from a client computer for the prediction of the acoustic response of a modeled loudspeaker system based on user defined inputs sent from the client computer, said user defined inputs including the identification of a selected one or more loudspeakers whose performance characteristics are contained in said loudspeaker database, said host computer further being capable of retrieving from the loudspeaker database the performance characteristics of the loudspeakers identified by the request from a client computer, and still further being capable of using said retrieved performance characteristics for computing the acoustic response of the modeled loudspeaker system based on the user defined inputs sent from a client computer that can be returned to a client computer over a communications network.

A user interface for a client computer used to request from a host computer an acoustic response prediction for a modeled loudspeaker system comprised of one or more identified loudspeakers having known performance characteristics, said user input interface comprising

• at least one loudspeaker identification input for identifying at least one loudspeaker of a modeled loudspeaker system for which an acoustic prediction is desired, and
• at least one loudspeaker location input for identifying the location within a space of the loudspeaker identified in said loudspeaker input field,
• wherein a user of the client computer can send a request from the client computer to a host computer to perform an acoustic response prediction based on entries made in said loudspeaker identification input and said loudspeaker location input.