A web hosted system and user interface in a client-server architecture
permits audio designers to perform acoustic prediction calculations from
a thin client computer. A client computer or other Internet connect
device having a display screen is used by an audio professional to access
via the Internet a host computer which performs acoustic prediction
calculations and returns results of the calculations to the client. The
results of the calculations are returned in the form of data
visualizations, such as an area view showing visualizations of sound
pressure levels within a defined space, an impulse view showing the time
domain response at a defined location, and/or a frequency domain view
showing the frequency response at a defined location. Calculations are
performed based on user-defined inputs, such as speaker type and
location, sent to the host computer from the client computer and based on
retrieval of loudspeaker data from one or more databases accessible by
the host computer.