Why don’t Tectonic loudspeakers interact with a room like other speaker systems?

It’s all about those Diffuse Waveforms again.

Tectonic DMLs propagate audio energy in a fundamentally different way than traditional speaker designs; whether it’s a ubiquitous cone or dome or some form of planar magnetic or electrostatic device.

All of the above mentioned designs rely on a uniform pistonic action that delivers an energized column of air into the performance space, with energy and coverage based on driver size and frequency response. The result is relatively high-energy sound waves meeting the boundaries of an enclosed space in a highly correlated manner that reflect directly back in as a correlated wave front that arrives a bit later at the listener’s ear and, depending upon the difference in arrival time, is perceived as an echo or ‘slap-back.’

Each pistonic driver, in its own frequency range, has its own audio energy and coverage characteristics. Reflected audio wave fronts are coherent only for each driver and will be additive or subtractive to the full bandwidth audio; creating areas of unequal audio energy, phase, and frequency anomalies.

Tectonic DMLs propagate audio energy as a non-pistonic energy source, such that audio energy, while initially pistonic enough to create a stereo image, is predominantly diffuse and random. Audio energy produced by a DML that bounces off of a reflective surface is equally diffuse, random, and therefore non-disruptive. Reflected audio energy is not simply correlated to the source audio, and therefore not perceived as an echo or ‘slap-back’.