Puzzled by Naim names

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

Any indications as to the origin of mu-so?

It was supposed to be the straightforward Muso, but Arcam got there first so Naim had to adopt the rather odd Mu-so.  Or so I recall. 

HH I don't think it's odd it's cool imho, Muso is so yesterday compared to mu-so but yes we did some side tracking with our friends. Muso is a name for people who have an excessive interest  in music, usually a name for musicians.

Graham : Aro came as the supplier in the States made Arrows- straight , true and light.

I have a mu-so qB on order, which despite the odd name looks like the dog's danglies. I rather like the idea of it being the cubey, rather like the Mazda Bongo Friendee, instead of the more mundane cube.  

On the subject of odd names, what is Super Lumina supposed to mean. Another marketing department invention?

Hungryhalibut posted:

I have a mu-so qB on order, which despite the odd name looks like the dog's danglies. I rather like the idea of it being the cubey, rather like the Mazda Bongo Friendee, instead of the more mundane cube.  

On the subject of odd names, what is Super Lumina supposed to mean. Another marketing department invention?

Super Lumina....sheds light ?

I remember when Naim were preparing to launch what would become the Allae, they asked for customers to offer suggestions for its prospective Name.

Not sure whether anyone suggested Allae, or whether all customer suggestions were rubbish and Naim themselves came up with Allae.  

I seem to remember offering a suggestion; buggered if I can remember what it was though!

Cheers,

Ian

Look up the term superluminal and you'll see why it is an apt name for the SL cables

Faster than the speed of light - the rate at which one's bank balance diminishes when you buy it. 

Packing all those tachyons into the wires does come at a cost.

I seem to recall the acronym DBL stood for Decoupled Loudspeaker..

Well that would explain the 'D' and the 'L' ....

Paul Stephenson posted:

Muso is a name for people who have an excessive interest  in music , usually a name for musicians.

Thanks Paul. Good name and a good cure for musophobia.

joerand posted:

Well that would explain the 'D' and the 'L' ....

Sorry my omission...Decoupled Box Loudspeaker

Ah 'Box" - I couldn't imagine what word was supposed to go there. Makes perfect sense now

Its all about taming vibration...

Anyone here drive a Cactus.  No end of sniggers here in oz, where it will debut this quarter. Will not sell here without a regular auto box despite being a crossover.   It may well live up to its name for that reason.  All my gear and my car are letters and numbers, except my Zesto Andros phono stage.  Sounds Greek to me.

The Toyota MR2 was known as the MR in France - as 'MR2' is pronounced in French as 'em-air-deux', which has an unfortunate whiff about it 

Andrew Everard posted:

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.

Andrew, similarly Evian spring water is Naïve backwards...