Green Mountain Audio at RMAF


Did anyone hear the new Callypso and Pico speakers from Green Mountain Audio. My work schedule made it impossible for me to attend the show this year. I would appreciate your views on Roy Johnson's new designs.

Regards.
elsneb

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They had display models only of those two. The Callisto and Contiuum 3 (in two rooms) were the only live demos as far as I know.
I spent a lot of time with Roy in the Callisto room. He didn't play Europas for comparison, but my impression is that the Caliisto's are more "refined" (not sure how to explain that). I suspect they have more and slightly deeper bass, but hard to say for sure without a direct comparison. Apparently they will play louder. Also, the Callisto is now $2900 as the cost of raw materials for the cabinet has gone way up. I came to the show hoping that the Callisto would be the upgrade I'm looking for, but left feeling that it's probably not a big enough improvement to justify the expense.

I spent only a couple of minutes in GMA's Continuum room, but much longer in the Audio Magic room, which also had Continuums. Pretty great sound I thought, though I felt the system may have suffered from too much silver, which is Audio Magic's thing. Sounded a touch "cold".

The Calypso was nice looking in that odd, GMA way. The Pico line will have more traditional looks, thankfully.