Disclosed herein are system, method, and tangible computer readable medium for creating a desired audio effect for a user. The method includes operations including: causing a plurality of speakers to play test signals, each test signal being specific to one of the speakers; receiving from a remote device recorded frequency responses of the speakers resulting from the playing of the test signals; creating one or more filters to match an audio profile selected by a user; applying the filters to the recorded frequency responses to obtain filtered transformations of the speakers; and transmitting the filtered transformations to the speakers; wherein the filtered transformations are applied at the speakers to thereby achieve the user audio profile.

Wireless-enabled loudspeaker includes a wooden capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise at least one electroacoustic transducer, a processor in communication with the at least one electroacoustic transducer, and a wooden exterior surface comprising a capacitive touch user interface that allows a user to control operation of the loudspeaker. The wooden exterior surface acts a dielectric for the capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise a wireless transceiver circuit for receiving and transmitting wireless communication signals via a wireless network. The wireless transceiver circuit may receive wirelessly audio content from streaming audio content servers that are connected to the Internet. The capacitive touch user interface comprises a plurality of user control icons etched in the wooden exterior surface, and a plurality of capacitive sense electrodes located under the wooden exterior surface.

A speaker driving device including a setting part setting at least one parameter defining an equivalent circuit of a first speaker unit as a first parameter; a first calculator configured to change a first frequency response based on the first parameter, the changed first frequency response being applied to an input signal; and a driving signal generator configured to generate a drive signal for driving a speaker unit based on a first calculation signal, the first calculation signal being obtained by applying the changed first frequency response to the input signal.

A method of analyzing and displaying spectral-dynamic properties of an audio signal, including measuring a level over time in multiple neighboring frequency-bands based on the audio signal; calculating spectral-dynamic characterizing values based on two or more statistics of a distribution of the measured levels within each of the frequency-bands; and displaying a graphical representation of the spectral-dynamic characterizing values as a function of frequency.

A system may include an input configured to receive a first signal representative of a second signal to be driven to an amplifier input of an amplifier, processing circuitry configured to process the first signal in order to generate the second signal from the first signal such that the processing circuitry limits a current driven by the amplifier to an output load of the amplifier, and an output configured to drive the second signal to the amplifier input.

A method for setting a filter frequency response includes: dividing a target frequency band into multiple first partial bands at a frequency corresponding to an intersection between a first line representative of a target spectrum envelope and a second line representative of a first spectrum envelope derived from smoothing a measured frequency spectrum; and setting a frequency response of a filter corresponding to a first partial band specified by an operator from among the multiple first partial bands, in accordance with a setting operation for setting an adjustment amount performed by the operator with respect to the specified first partial band.

Method for setting parameters for individual adaptation of an audio signal, including: performing a first listening test with the substeps: playing a plurality of first audio signals having different levels; obtaining feedback per frequency range from an individual which of the plurality of first acoustic signals is above an individual listening threshold; and using the lowest level of the different levels for which feedback is available as a level for the individual listening threshold per frequency range; performing adaptation of a second audio signal with the substeps: playing the second audio signal according to a total volume level considering a sound adaptation characteristic map; and varying the sound adaptation characteristic wherein the levels for the individual listening thresholds are used as minimum output levels in the sound adaptation characteristic map.

Method for setting parameters for individual adaptation of an audio signal, including: performing a first listening test with the substeps: playing a plurality of first audio signals having different levels; obtaining feedback per frequency range from an individual which of the plurality of first acoustic signals is above an individual listening threshold; and using the lowest level of the different levels for which feedback is available as a level for the individual listening threshold per frequency range; performing adaptation of a second audio signal with the substeps: playing the second audio signal according to a total volume level considering a sound adaptation characteristic map; and varying the sound adaptation characteristic wherein the levels for the individual listening thresholds are used as minimum output levels in the sound adaptation characteristic map.

A filter determination system, a filter determination device, a filter determination method and a program with which a filter can be appropriately determined are provided.

A processing device according to this embodiment includes a frequency response acquisition unit that acquires a frequency response of a filter for an audio signal, a smoothing unit that smoothes the frequency response and obtains a smoothed response, a candidate point determination unit that determines candidate split points based on a bottom position of the smoothed response, and a split point determination unit that determines one or more band split points from the candidate split points.

A speaker driving device including a setting part setting at least one parameter defining an equivalent circuit of a first speaker unit as a first parameter; a first calculator configured to change a first frequency response based on the first parameter, the changed first frequency response being applied to an input signal; and a driving signal generator configured to generate a drive signal for driving a speaker unit based on a first calculation signal, the first calculation signal being obtained by applying the changed first frequency response to the input signal.