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

I sold audio gear in retail for a couple of years in the early 90’s in the suburban Philadelphia market.  Here’s a few things I remember:

1.  NAD stood for “Not Always Defective”

2.  Sony ES stood for “Extra Sides”  (Our store carried the regular Sony line, but an audio store competitor a few doors away sold the ES line.  Anyone asking for Sony ES, we told them it was exactly the same gear we carried with Extra Sides.

3.  Customers always came in asking for Bose because of the incredible name recognition.  “No highs, no lows, than it must be Bose!”

@lou_setriodes 

Good stuff.  Thanks for sharing.

John

I forgot this one:

B&O stood for Barely Operational, not Bang & Olufsen

@lou_setriodes 

That”s a new one for me.  I feel (a little) smarter now.

In the later ‘80 when NEC was pimping video products, their failure rate quickly earned the reference of Never Ending Crisis