Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX

rebbi,
We just began shipping the new HX version in early Jan. The feedback has been very positive, agreeing with what we've experienced here. However, those clients already own other GMA speakers and don't really get onto the speaker forums anymore.

Best regards,
Roy
Green Mtn.

I just upgraded from the chroma 2 to the HX version of the GMA RIO . The results were amazing!! much better cohesion across the frequency spectrum . The detail was also improved. I have owned many highly rated speakers and none of them come close to the overall musicality of the RIO HX.                                                                                                                   

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I strongly disagree with the negative comments on the Chromas. Overall, these speakers have a very natural musical sound. They are for music lovers.

I recently had Gallo Strada 2s for a home trial. With a subwoofer they are comparable in price to the Chromas.  The Gallos' are impressive speakers in terms of dynamics, resolution, and sound stage, but not even close to the musicality, imaging, and over all listenablity of the Chromas. I used the Gallo subwoofer with both the Chromas and the Strada 2s

As far as the parts, the Chromas use Seas 29TTFF/W tweeters. They are fine sounding 6 ohm tweeters. I have a pair of the Seas Excell Millennium tweeters, the companies finest from a speaker kit project. The specs are similiar. They cost about $305 each. I swaped the Millenniums in to the Chromas. Yes the sound did improve, but by a small margin. Arguably not worth the increased cost. 

My conclusion is that the Chromas are brilliantly designed to get maximum bang for the parts used. Better parts yield only marginal improvement.