Bob Weir might like these but they bring up thoughts of aroma to me. American-made studio monitors by Barefoot Sound are mainstays in professional recording studios all over the world for a number of reasons. Aside from their ongoing pursuit of excellence, Barefoot Sound goes beyond conventional manufacturing approaches by embedding technology that responds to common pitfalls in loudspeaker design
For me it’s…. Monarchy Audio Teenage Engineering Blue Jeans Cable Red Wine Audio. I’m sure I’ll think of others that just don’t sound right (IMO of course). Their products are probably perfectly good however.
Fluance Speakers is another unfortunate name for a brand in my opinion. Whenever I see that name written I can't help but read Flatulence Speakers. I'm not a fan of Gene Tracey's Crepitation Contest. Cheers, Robert
The English company Leak is always the first one that comes to my mind. And then, I thought of the good ol' Foobar 2000 (which always makes me think, "Hmm, maybe I just configured it wrong...?" ).
foo, bar, and baz are common generic variable names used by programmers when writing example code. Similar to using names like i, j, k as variable names. foobar is often used as a generic function name in example code. Similar to using f as a generic function name. To a programmer the name Foobar2000 indicates that the developer couldn't think of a good name and just used the name Foobar as a placeholder and started development in 2000. And the name stuck.
Foobar2000 is also that. I don't know how to properly configure and customize Foobar2000. The program interface and method of operation is truly fubar.
Tend towards a dry sonorus character, reverberant and hollow yet surprisingly textured and tuneful. A poor and unfortunate choice when paired with Schiit amplification, however. I really miss grade school. Cheers, Robert
REK-O-KUT turntables Magnasonic They were a Canadian distributor (eventually bought out by one of the brands they distributed, SANYO) that created their own low end brand.
For all you Aussies and Kiwi's: Dick Smith Electronics (think Radio shack for the southern hemisphere), a long time retail supply store for all kinds of electronic needs esp. audio cables and adaptors etc. plus their own in-house branded crappy speakers and audio gear. The company logo (plastered all over all their stuff, retail stores and annual catalogue etc.) has a line drawing of Dick's face in between the first and last name of the founder, hence when viewing the company name on a retail store one literally reads from left to right ... "Dick Head Smith Electronics"
Lacks 500 moving parts, however. A true Perpetuum-Ebner turntable worthy of the name has hundreds of moving parts, they love piling on the mechanical complexity.
Rek-O-Kut makes perfect sense. As what did that company first manufacture? It manufactured disc recording lathes, cutting heads, and recording amplifiers. Rek-O-Kut as in cutting records. And their sideline was selling their excellent turntables and Micropoise tonearms to home users, institutions, and broadcast stations. The latter turntable and tonearm business became their main business.
Goldstar, a South Korean company who made crappy appliances and electronic equipment founded in 1958. Everything they made was cringe worth until 1995 when they became LG Electronics.
It isn't that hard to do. I used Foobar to create playlists from multiple drives and directories on a laptop for a college radio show which I did for over 20 years. I loved it.