Naim allae or gala?

Posted by: Willem van Gemert on 11 June 2001

Just received the latest issue of Image Hifi and there is an ad from the German Naim distributor Music Line with a picture of the allae but with a different name underneath the picture: gala!
Did Naim listen to us and decided to change the name of the speaker or did the name change from gala to allae after this issue was already printed?

Ciao!

Willem

Posted on: 11 June 2001 by Thomas K

Hi Willem,

I heard that the name was meant to be different in Germany - namely Gala - probably because vee krauts are too stoopid tooh prohnounse allä propälee. A bizarre decision, I find, but there you go ...

(Will most probably see you on Friday!)

Thomas

Posted on: 11 June 2001 by Willem van Gemert

quote:
I heard that the name was meant to be different in Germany - namely Gala - probably because vee krauts are too stoopid tooh prohnounse allä propälee. A bizarre decision, I find, but there you go ...

That's an option I didn't even consider! If this is true, that would be indeed really bizarre! You will get the Opel/Vauxhall or Amstel/Aguilla effect. Very confusing IMHO.

quote:
(Will most probably see you on Friday!)

Hope so. I'm looking forward to it! I'll give you a call when we arrive.

Ciao!

Willem

Posted on: 11 June 2001 by Paul Stephenson

Gala is a coffee brand.

Posted on: 12 June 2001 by David Stewart

Good Gawd! - to me 'Gala' means a greasy slab of pork pie with rubbery egg in the middle?

Shoooorely a totally inappropriate moniker for a Naim speaker!

David S

Posted on: 12 June 2001 by Jaybar

All those low cholesterol dishes. My my.....

Jay

Posted on: 12 June 2001 by Chris Dolan

If Paul says it is allae not gala then it must be.

So it is pointless for me to say that I don't like the name gala for a speaker - as a gala is a fete, and if a speaker is effete it has lost its vitality.

Choosing a name is very difficult, and it is much easier to criticise the choice.

Chris

ps allae is still a crap name - no lae