Puzzled by Naim names

Could be worse - Klimaks, Radikal, Urika...

I've got an Up! Super little car. It's the posh Club version - I was a bit wary of getting the sexier Fxxx Up!

As to Naim speakers, the earlier ones are all acronyms - separate box loud spreaker, nested box, integrated box, discrete box..... The Intro was then the introductory model to the range, and Credo went with Intro. As for Allae and Ovator I have no idea. 

Could be a lot worse like: Paul, Steve or Roy.

Chord Roy ?

Often its just been fun and sometimes desperation as we get to launch trying to find names- its been a kind of code I suppose

integrated box loudspeaker, nested box Loudspeakers and Dynamic Box loudspeaker if I recall correctly and came from the engineering projects.

Arriva, Allae and Credo were more representative of feelings about sound and marketing I hype ( I must take the blame for these), arrived,/partner in sound to electronics, and truth

Ovator- a crossover between ovation and orator- this came from Alison Fraser our previous head of Marketing- I like it.

Mike-B posted:

Its even worse when you look at car names  ......  Twingo, Friendee, Ka,  up!,    Sunny  .......  & on & on .....

Then after the stupid names we have those that obviously slipped somewhere in the marketing research dept  ...........   LaPuta (spanish “the whore")      Pajero (spanish "wanker")

It all started with the Nova.  Well maybe it didn't start with the Nova ... but can you think of a worse name for a car than the "not going".  Or perhaps (in the case of the Vauxhall) a more accurate name!

Eloise posted:

Mike-B posted:

Its even worse when you look at car names  ......  Twingo, Friendee, Ka,  up!,    Sunny  .......  & on & on .....

Then after the stupid names we have those that obviously slipped somewhere in the marketing research dept  ...........   LaPuta (spanish “the whore")      Pajero (spanish "wanker")

It all started with the Nova.  Well maybe it didn't start with the Nova ... but can you think of a worse name for a car than the "not going".  Or perhaps (in the case of the Vauxhall) a more accurate name!

I suppose with a name like Nova you'd be worrying it might blow up!

Some around have fantastic imagination!

Eloise posted:

Mike-B posted:

Its even worse when you look at car names  ......  Twingo, Friendee, Ka,  up!,    Sunny  .......  & on & on .....

Then after the stupid names we have those that obviously slipped somewhere in the marketing research dept  ...........   LaPuta (spanish “the whore")      Pajero (spanish "wanker")

It all started with the Nova.  Well maybe it didn't start with the Nova ... but can you think of a worse name for a car than the "not going".  Or perhaps (in the case of the Vauxhall) a more accurate name!

Despite being amusing, the "Chevy Nova" thing is an urban myth.  Search for the same on snopes.com for details if interested.

Graham Clarke posted:

Eloise posted:

Mike-B posted:

Its even worse when you look at car names  ......  Twingo, Friendee, Ka,  up!,    Sunny  .......  & on & on .....

Then after the stupid names we have those that obviously slipped somewhere in the marketing research dept  ...........   LaPuta (spanish “the whore")      Pajero (spanish "wanker")

It all started with the Nova.  Well maybe it didn't start with the Nova ... but can you think of a worse name for a car than the "not going".  Or perhaps (in the case of the Vauxhall) a more accurate name!

Despite being amusing, the "Chevy Nova" thing is an urban myth.  Search for the same on snopes.com for details if interested.

Well it didn't affect the sales... But it's still a stupid name!

Eloise posted:

Graham Clarke posted:

Eloise posted:

Mike-B posted:

Its even worse when you look at car names  ......  Twingo, Friendee, Ka,  up!,    Sunny  .......  & on & on .....

Then after the stupid names we have those that obviously slipped somewhere in the marketing research dept  ...........   LaPuta (spanish “the whore")      Pajero (spanish "wanker")

It all started with the Nova.  Well maybe it didn't start with the Nova ... but can you think of a worse name for a car than the "not going".  Or perhaps (in the case of the Vauxhall) a more accurate name!

Despite being amusing, the "Chevy Nova" thing is an urban myth.  Search for the same on snopes.com for details if interested.

Well it didn't affect the sales... But it's still a stupid name!

The Vauxhall sales went sky-high after Oasis sang about their really super metallic champagne coloured Nova.

Roy reminded me the project was called FBS for dbl, work it out he also said the speaker was originally going to be a research tool and was not going to be sold, but that is not the way I remember it, I just thought I got have a pair and so did all our keen friends- always going to be sold JV thought the same way too! He loved selling things.

Paul Stephenson posted:

Roy reminded me the project was called FBS for dbl, work it out he also said the speaker was originally going to be a research tool and was not going to be sold, but that is not the way I remember it, I just thought I got have a pair and so did all our keen friends- always going to be sold JV thought the same way too! He loved selling things.

Clearly they were called the Flipping Big Speaker

I'd heard that the Aro was so named because the arm tube was fashioned from the same material used to make arrows, which have extremely tight tolerances.  Given that high end arrows are now carbon fibre not metal I guess that put paid to the Aro...

Paul, I heard it was FBL not FBS? Same difference, though, of course. And didnt he develop it in a tiny room, like 12x12foot or something?

SBL was Small Box Loudspeaker?

Aro is from the arm tube

jon honeyball posted:

Paul, I heard it was FBL not FBS? Same difference, though, of course. And didnt he develop it in a tiny room, like 12x12foot or something?

SBL was Small Box Loudspeaker?

Aro is from the arm tube

I guess that would make the Focal Grand Utopia a "Really really FBL".

The S in SBL is for separate, not small. 

Graham Clarke posted:

Paul Stephenson posted:

Roy reminded me the project was called FBS for dbl, work it out he also said the speaker was originally going to be a research tool and was not going to be sold, but that is not the way I remember it, I just thought I got have a pair and so did all our keen friends- always going to be sold JV thought the same way too! He loved selling things.

Clearly they were called the Flipping Big Speaker

I'd heard that the Aro was so named because the arm tube was fashioned from the same material used to make arrows, which have extremely tight tolerances.  Given that high end arrows are now carbon fibre not metal I guess that put paid to the Aro...

ARO : Analogue Rules OK.

That's what I heard. 'onest  govn'r :

naim_nymph posted:

The Vauxhall sales went sky-high after Oasis sang about their really super metallic champagne coloured Nova.

Was talking cars with a friend the other day: he's thinking of buying a Subaru Levorg, and apparently the name's all to do with a combination of 'Legacy' (the model it replaces), 'touring' and 'revolution'.

No-one seems to have noticed it's also 'grovel' spelled backwards.

Hungryhalibut posted:

The S in SBL is for separate, not small. 

...so SL2 is for Separate Loudspeaker mk2 ? : )

I suspect the logic had departed by that stage! SBL2 would make sense, but I guess the SL2 was so different that SBL2 could make buyers think it was an update rather than a completely new speaker. 

Any indications as to the origin of mu-so?

Music Solution

SL2 ... that was the development name for the speaker. There was some debate on the forum at the time about what the final product name should be. I suggested just keeping the name as SL2 as it was perfectly fine and if they did could they send me a pair as a reward! As it happens, they did, but they never sent me a pair

Hungryhalibut posted:

The S in SBL is for separate, not small. 

My understanding as well.

ISTR that the SBL were the first of that range where the drivers were in separate boxes.