Green Mountain Audio at RMAF

I emailed Janet Lynn, CEO of GMA and she verified the price increase to $2900 on the Callisto. Packing and material costs have a huge impact on costs. I wonder if this will be a trend with all manufacturers with the rise of fuel and transportation costs nation wide.

Great speakers but - raw materials and packing/shipping costs on a 2 way monitor up $600 from April 2005 ??? - gimme a break!!!!

I think I agree with Opalchip. My guess is that GMA are moving from pricing based on a profit margin to pricing based on what the market will bear.

That's a fully justifiable decision for them to make. If they think $2900 Callistos will sell against their competition then good luck to them. It is every business' right to charge what the market will bear for a product regardless of the cost of production of that product.

I can say, however, that the chances that I trade up in from my Europas is now absolutely nill.

GMA is honoring the $2295 price until the release of their new website. This may be this weekend or as late as January, depending on what is posted first. I love my Callisto's, but I agree, I would have to demo many speakers in this price range before I made a purchase. At 2295, I could not find a better speaker for my small room.

I dont think the price jump will hurt so bad, I mean an amazeing speaker is still just as good for $600 more, and this happens all the time, Loyd at Walker had to put a huge jump in his prices to get Audio idiots to pay attention.
The ultra high brow Audiophooles are to blame, they wont buy equipment if it is cheap, so screw it raise prices.