Why no Nait 4?

Posted by: Bhoyo on 04 August 2003

The ever-wonderful Art Dudley's review of the Nait 5 in Stereophile says Naim went from Nait 3 to Nait 5 because there were "negative connotations" associated with the number four in some places. What does this mean? Can anyone here shed any light on this?
Posted on: 04 August 2003 by Simon Matthews
Bad luck in the Far east.
Posted on: 04 August 2003 by --duncan--
Very bad luck, sounds like Death Frown, in Japanese at least. There is unlikely to be a Nait 9 either.

duncan

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Posted on: 04 August 2003 by Andrew Randle
4 (pronounced "Say") also sounds like the word for "death" in Cantonese and Mandarin.

Andrew

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Posted on: 04 August 2003 by Bhoyo
Thanks - I suspected that you erudite lot would probably know the answer.

Bhoyo
Posted on: 04 August 2003 by joe90
Where I live the top Arcam stuff is FMJ - Full Metal Jacket.
Apparently in the Far East its FMJ - Full Musical Joy.

Understandable the first translation might no go down too well in South East Asia...

Joe90
Posted on: 05 August 2003 by Derek Wright
Marketing probably ran a focus group on which numbers excited the most people - at least with the 252 the immediate response is not

"They're innocent"
as in the Renault 5 and the Coventry 9 or whatever.......

Does it matter - we all know what a 252 is

it is the 1000 that worries me.

Derek

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