Why are Tectonic loudspeakers more intelligible than other speaker designs?

Tectonic loudspeakers’ superior intelligibility is a combination of several technical and performance characteristics:

Tectonic loudspeakers generate virtually no 3rd-order harmonic distortion

Pistonic-based transducer designs – cone drivers, compression drivers and horns – by nature of their design, produce odd-order harmonic frequencies (distortion) that are near and can even exceed the amplitude of the original signal source at sound reinforcement output levels. Odd-order harmonics are both unpleasant sounding and mask intelligibility. Tectonic Plate odd-order harmonic distortion is so far below the original input signal as to be nearly immeasurable.

The Tectonic DML has a nominal bandwidth of 100Hz – 20kHz (+/- 6dB)

(A large-format ribbon transducer/wave guide takes over from there to above 20kHz.) There are no passive or active crossover points in the DMLs critical vocal/instrument range that could introduce phase, frequency or delay errors. No external DSP or signal processing is required throughout the pass-band of a DML.The PL-11NR can operate full range without any crossover.

The random and diffuse acoustic radiation characteristics of Tectonic loudspeakers are minimally interactive with reflective room boundaries

Thus, secondary acoustic arrival reflections are not a correlated secondary sound source and do not decrease intelligibility by way of echoes or slap-back.

Tectonic loudspeakers create an extremely wide coverage pattern and very long throw

This provides stereo or surround imaging to nearly every location in a given venue for nearly the same audio experience to all areas.

Collectively, these attributes provide a superior level of intelligibility over existing loudspeaker systems.