Worst Brand or Model Names?

I've been know to WEAR blue jeans, can I sue them? Any ambulance chasers reading this?

 

I’ve seen on eBay a Chinese Chip amp and DAC company called Nobsound…

 

Back in the late '70s I used an integrated amp made by Bryan. I can't imagine brand consultants recommending something so straightforward and down-to-earth these days.

 

Agreed with ELAC, sounds like a brand of kitchen appliances.

 

HumminGuru ultrasonic record cleaner? Love the product....
Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

 

Can't beat Roksan Kandy in that context.

 

Just for S#!+s and giggles, look up Dena , then Frip on Urban Dictionary….

 

Kef
'Keffers' in our dialect are small dogs that make very irritating barking noises. You definitely don't want to hear any 'keffing' coming out of your Kefs .

 

TEAC is, like NAD, an initialism; it stands for "Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company," one of two Japanese companies that merged to form TEAC, I gather sometime in the late 1950s or so. A similar name is Kyocera, a condensed version of Kyoto Ceramics Corporation. I guess TEAC could be pronounced like "teak," but I can't remember hearing anyone pronounce it other than as "tee-ack."

Since model names are fair game here, I'd suggest perhaps "zero" isn't the best choice. Garrard applied it to a line of turntables with articulated tonearms, and long before that Pathe applied it, as "model 0," to its bottom-of-the-line cylinder player (in due course more euphamistically renamed the "Democratique"). Yeah, I know, Garrard was trying to get across the idea that its arm had zero tracking angle error, but I wouldn't have cared to bet that the message got through to all its potential customers.

 

Me and some of my friends call KEFs always keffertjes, since of of them found the LS50 too shrill and shouty.

 

Rosson Audio Designs has their abbrev as "RAD" and I think it's funny. I'm always like oh that's totally RAD bro....it's funny to me, but they seem to have a partnership with Rupert Neve Design which makes RAD and RND which sounds like "Rosson Audio Design Research and Development"...but different RND. So more funny names to me than weird or hated, but certainly confusing to other viewers I'm sure. Schiit Audio and their PISS cables came to mind but OP caught it. Names aside all these brands have good products! Haha no publicity is bad...

 

Machina Dynamica

Sounds like a villain from a bad 1950's comic book.

 

Blue Jean Cables

 

Would users of both products be considered Schitt EATers?

 

Also, Soundesign was pretty low performance. But, my first post of Lloyds is definitely 'bottom of the barrel'.

 

Had a pair of Lloyds walkie talkies as a kid. Long antennae, and a 9V battery in each. Those must have been one of the only quality items they made..they took a lickin, dropped many times, used in the rain, etc. I gave them away as a teen.

 

Vapor Audio. Always reminded me of vaporware. Then they started having problems that fit the name, as a lot of ID startups do. Too bad, I heard their speakers a few times and liked them.

 

no, Schiit lovers.

 

Quobuzz?

 

Beard Audio, equipment worked great but the brand name?

 

Kinda surprised no one mentioned the Zu Omen Dirty Weekend speakers.

Though personally I dig the name.
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Pink Triangle

 

Wikipedia says the founders of Pink Triangle were gay and chose the name deliberately as an allusion to the symbol used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps.

 

I did not know that! It always just struck me as an eccentric name.

 

We used to have retail shops called Tandy.
It always seemed like they'd sell cr*p.
They did!