Best and Worst names in Audio

12-23-12: Dne
Worst by far: Eichmann (bullets). As in Adolph Eichman, German Nazi Holocaust mass murderer.

Your comment is in very bad taste, even for my warped mind!!!! It was named after one of the founders, Keith Eichmann.

There's always TG Audio, Bob Crump's old company. As in throbbing gristle. Now whether you consider that a good name or a bad name probably depends on a number of factors. Lol. Vendetta Preamp, Bar B Q Amplifier, Blowtorch Preamp and the Number Cruncher DAC were all associated with Bob Crump and John Curl.

Geoff, actually the Number Cruncher was an Entec product, Demian Martin's company. Bob was merely a big fan of it and came up with some worthwhile modifications of it. The CTC modified version of the Parasound HCA3500 amp was the BBQ, never spelled out, but its performance was eclipsed by the Parasound Halo JC 1 monoblocks, which the CTC team designed.

As for TG, indeed it stood for Throbbing Gristle, the name of an industrial rock band. But the name reverted to just TG after an important customer's wife became incensed upon learning what TG stood for.

I second Dne's choice......and also recall an ad from a very high end German turntable mfgr calling their turntable, "the vinyl solution"...