Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation?

My own coinage, I think, Broken Awful Soon, as opposed to the popular Bang & Awfulson.  Others bandied about in the mid 70s Harvard Square included Oinko, San-screwy, Yo Mama, Manrats, Hibachi, Toast-Sheba, Japan Victim Corp., RePox, Drool, and of course, the Common Hardon was a favorite. 

 

I was an unfortunate member of the “Flame Linear:  Phase Linear” club. 

Body Oder : Bang & Olufsen

Balony : Sony

 

A little on subject/off subject remark:

When I was 17, I blew a woofer in my brother's Sansui speakers playing The Big Sound of the Drags LP.  I took them to the local audio saloon for repair and was told: "Sansui speakers aren'tt worth the postage to send them here from Japan!!"  That was my first experience with an audio specialty store. 

Then I opened one years later.  Slow learner, I guess.

Guys, so sorry about the typo in the heading.  Should be "Remember" and not "Member".  I know better.

Now you know why I'm a retired Hifi Guy and not an active marketing consultant.

So Funny!!! I recall an audio salesperson in about 1980 in a nice store jokingly telling a potential customer who owned Big Ohm speakers (w/ original inverted cone Walsh drivers) that they need lots of power but can’t it so he had the perfect amp for them - the Carver Magic Cube that has lots of power but can’t deliver it.  I’m not sure if his effort to sell some new equipment worked or not but it was a good effort. 
 

I then went returned to that same store months later to hear another salesperson, after being asked about the quality of Pioneer receivers vs the new NAD stuff,  said they so poor & they were being so heavy distributed & discount Ed you could buy them at gas stations! Meanwhile, no Pioneer product I ever heard of shot up flames on turn on which happened on occasion w/ the early NAD stuff. Good times

I feel triggered. I am going to sue.

"Karmon Hardon:  Harmon Kardon"

People continually want to put an "o" in harman/kardon, when there is none. A good percentage of eBay & Craigslist ads proves that is true.

Pionure!

Great stuff!!

Thanks for participating.  Lots of old (and, new) memories.

A nice way to spend a little time before heading out in my Fix Or Repair Daily (FORD).

You guys are the best!!!

Oh, yeah.  Almost forgot ...

Flame Linear:  Phase Linear

Ken wood but I wouldn’t 

Zenith the quality goes in. Then we take it out before we sell it

 

the good old days

Sonic Fart  (Sonic Art which was Bose private label Chinese speaker)

Linear Distortion (Linear Suspension another private label brand)

Shitnics (Technics)

Fire Antz (Marantz)

Blowse (Bose)

Say No (Sanyo)

Blow Me (Sony)

Yes, I sold all of this back in the late '70s...

Common Hardon (Harman Kardon) Pee-in-Ear (Pioneer) Kornwood (Kenwood) Gerbils (JBL) Adverbs (Advent) Thorns (Thorens) Turdberg (Tandberg)

“San Sewage”. 
 

Nice. Lol

Dyna Groove- Dyna Warp.

San Sewage ( yes we carried them,…. )

Pie-in-ear.

I remember Karmon Hardon and San Sewer.