R.I.P: Rest In Peace Roy Johnson, Green Mountain Audio's Genius


All,

It is with heavy heart that I bring to you the heart breaking news of the passing of one of audio's true geniuses. Roy Johnson passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. He was a truly brilliant speaker designer, and true friend, and an amazing person. For those of us lucky to have known him as customers or friends we know he was infinitely committed to lending a hand, imparting his wisdom, solving problems and creating some of the most amazing loud speakers ever heard.  There were often gremlins in my system not centered around his loudspeakers and Roy would literally drop everything and help me trace down problems, while all the time educating and teaching me, not for gain, not for money, but because that's who Roy Johnson was. 

He will be greatly missed for his humor, his dedication, and his selflessness in audio and in life.

Rest in Peace Dear Friend,

You Are Loved
128x128birdfan
I have some pictures that Roy sent me of the crossover circuit. Unfortunately, you cannot see all of the values of the caps and the resistor in the circuit. The other thing, form my discussions with him, was that the RAAL ribbon was being ordered specifically for these speakers. He was going to have the transformer wound to provide a specific impedance he wanted for the crossover design. I have no idea what that value is. I was told by him that he had tweeters on hand, but have no idea if that was true or not. Maybe RAAL can give you an idea of what was ordered for them. If they were never ordered or they won't tell you what the value was, I would think that it would be very difficult to incorporate into the speaker. Good luck
does anybody have the circuit for the newer versions of Rio? or even the original?
I know it may be late but I have just tried to call him as we were working on a speaker project together, but alas no number was working so I looked up his name and alas I found out he’d passed on. 
I’m not even sure how or what to say except that to me he was easily one of most honest sincere people I’ve met in our industry and really anywhere. 
He and I would talk allot about many things not just his speakers lol. 
All were captivating and full of flair. It’s really difficult when people you care about go, it really is. 
Rest In Peace my friend

Perry 

Birdfan or others 
I would appreciate being able to contact someone from his family or estate etc 
It is business related 
perhaps you can let me know how this can be done?
Call me at my office at 250-351-4020
Thank you 
Perry 

just found out, loved the guy, he would spend time dumbing down speaker design to a level i could understand.  flew out to Colorado Springs and got to hang out with him one afternoon.  loved my Diamanté's.  i remember that he smoked too much, but a great guy and a true loss.  his speakers did not get the kind of notoriety they deserved unfortunately