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


My time in audio (and, video) goes way back.  How far back?  Does selling console stereos with ceramic cartridges mounted on record changers go back far enough?  Things were very competitive back then.  And, energetic and creative peddlers of consumer electronics didn't hold anything back.

Here's some examples from my memory.  Maybe you can add some of your own?

Maggotbox:  Magnavox

RCA Victim:  RCA Victor

Kindlingwood:  Kenwood

Soundshitty:  Sansui

Altec Lansing "Voice of the Outhouse":  "Voice of the Theater"

Karmon Hardon:  Harmon Kardon

And, who can forget?:  "No highs.  No lows.  It must be Bose."

Or:  "You can knock a Yamaha.  But, you can't Nakamichi."

Enjoy.

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

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...

Ken wood but I wouldn’t 

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

 

the good old days