Music First Distribution is pleased to offer Green Mountain Audio Products in Canada.  Musical, resolving, involving.  What more can one say?

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Green Mountain Audio Product Overview

We manufacture loudspeakers for home and studio use. The basis for all our design work is linearity- what comes in goes out. We want the original waveform (the one you would see on a `scope) delivered to the ear. This forces us to design for flat tone balance, low distortion, the least phase shift, wide and uniform dispersion, minimum resonance, the least cabinet reflections, and accurate dynamic response. Each of those areas has its own requirements, which we address through the tenets of physics. The results can seem simple, and disguise complicated relationships that have taken 25 years to master. They are complicated for one reason:  the sound that you hear is not over there by the speaker- it is right next to your ear. That's the spot where everything matters, where all the soundwaves from woofer, mid and tweeter must converge, to make that one original wave. And that's not a wave, either. We are actually just making the air pressure next to you go up and down a little. The concept of a wave comes from the math, but there is no wave!. Even if you could see the sound, there is no "wave". It's just a useful mathematical construct that mislead many, unfortunately.

Compared to what we make happen at your ear, the pressure variations which happen at the speaker are entirely different. The math connecting those two points (the ear and the speaker's cone surface) is by far the most difficult in all the sciences. Standing on the shoulders of others, our designer finally solved that math. He notes that far too many speaker designers have never studied the great body of work that precedes us- a matter of ego, perhaps, in their desire to create. Either way, you hear the results.

Here are three models: the Europa, the Continuum 1.5i and the new C-3 (better photo soon).

All of that leads to cabinets far quieter inside than anyone has ever before achieved, and far 'quieter' on the outside as well (lack of reflections), so the music starts and stops more quickly and cleanly, without a 'box' sound.. Black is standard, and our veneering and solid-hardwood finishing are unsurpassed. Everything is built and finished in-house.

Our raw drivers are the world's finest- by anyone's standards, they measure flatter, respond more gracefully, have more rigid pistons than any others. So they don't need 'correction' via the crossover circuits. We are very proud of these parts- made by Aurasound, Audax, Eton, Morel Acoustics, Scanspeak, and others. No one firm makes the best drivers- we have to pick and choose, and sometimes have them built to our specs. But the companies are specialists in what they engineer and produce- so that frees us to apply our expertise to give the drivers the very best enclosures and to integrate them seamlessly via the crossover. In our literature, we discuss the specifics for each of our models, and will in the full website.

Our crossover circuits are the simplest '1st-order' designs, which is the only circuit that will not smear the amplifier's signal out across the time domain. This circuit, if properly implemented, also makes for a very easy load on the amplifier. This circuit is seldom used though, as it demands the very best drivers, and really quiet cabinetry, and a great deal more design time. Frankly, most designers have also never studied the complicated time-domain math involved to employ this circuit, and then claim "you can't hear time-domain distortions". Maybe they have convinced themselves, but everyone we know can easily hear when time-domain distortion (smearing) is removed.

With our quiet cabinets and linear drivers, this simple crossover circuit keeps the time-domain distortion to a minimum- far less than any other speaker has accomplished- even full-range electrostatic panels. Also, your amplifier sees a very flat impedance curve- so the speakers work on any amplifier, without question. The parts used in the circuit are the very finest available- Solen Litz-wire air-core inductors, Sonicap and Solen high-voltage capacitors, Audio Magic silver/copper/Teflon wire, and Vampire Wire brass/silver/gold binding posts that one can tighten with a wrench. There is no circuit board- all parts are hard-wired with Cardas solder.

The results are worth it, as you pay attention to the musicians instead of the speakers, no matter what music you will play, at any loudness.

We have many retailers in the USA and a select few in Canada, Puerto Rico, and overseas. Contact us for the best one to serve you. Each was chosen because of their experience and customer service, not for how many units they can move. They actively demonstrate our products and also know how to make most excellent sound from any given system and room. They do not sell any product solely because a magazine gave it a great review and placed it on the cover. Each covets establishing long-term relationships with their customers, and has been in the business for a long time.

See our designer Roy Johnson's posts at Audiogon.com, at AudioAsylum.com, and at TheVinylEngine.com, for some technical info about our design philosophy and some acoustic advice. The best way to find the posts is to do a specific search at these sites using the words "Green Mountain" and also "Europa". A search on Google.com for "Green Mountain Audio" brings up several magazine reviews straight away. Thank you again for your interest!