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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
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csmgolf
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Sad news. I knew he had been having issues for some time. I spoke with him a month ago and he told me that his health was improving and was looking forward to finishing up new models.
csmgolf
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Legal rights against who? It was a one man show and he is gone. Just when I think you can't possibly say anything dumber, you pull one out of your hat. Congratulations!
csmgolf
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There is a lot more to the story than your over simplified view. I am not going into any more detail about it. Enough said. 
csmgolf
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you are right lets just turn a blind eye to all those innocent people who have according to some reports lost a lot of money or been betrayed.
@kenjit 
I am one of those people. After lengthy conversations with Roy over the last couple of years, it became obvious that I was going to have to be lucky to get them.The whole thing was a version of go fund me. I paid for speakers more than 4 years ago. I know I will never get them. There was nothing to get from him then, and there is nothing left to get now. Period. Like @silveraudio, I have said enough about how things went down, but I am resigned to the fact I will never get money back. Time to let it go, because life is too short. 
csmgolf
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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
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