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Okay, let me begin by warning you that this is a perfectly pointless exercise, so if that sort of thing turns you off, bail out now. But the post below about Axiom speakers triggered it. It occurred to me that "axiom" is a term from mathematics and logic and that there are other names of audio brands that are borrowed from mathematics, science, or philosophy. So I wanted to see what other ones there were. Here is what I have come up with so far, but are there any others?Axiom
Paradignm
Nova
Concept
Universal
Genesis
Technics
Proton
Rectilinear
InfinityCan you add to the list?
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SAE
Do they not set the standards for many engineers?
Yes, but I am not sure what the acronym actually stands for. Do you?
I do, it's the Society of Automotive Engineers and they set a lot of standards for fasteners in terms of thread configurations and strength classes. Also lubricant ratings and tests.Of course, that's not what the audio SAE stood for.
Sure!Advent
Threshold
Lux
Precedent
Tangent
Synergistics
Vector
Calibre
Lustre
Aardvark Quark (biology and astronomy-odd juxtaposition)
Audio Pulse
Fundamental
Image
Kinetic
Ohm
Zenith
Pyramid
Phase Linear
Coherentplus several that use the greek alphabet (Theta, Beta, Alpha)which is scientific in a back handed way.
And of course a host of companies that throw in linear, precision, phase, research, physics, laboratories, etc.
I'm not sure I'd allow Technics because it lets in a host of other phonetic miss-spellings and it's not strictly a technical or philosophical term.
That was fun!
You came up with quite a few brands I have never heard of. I should have come up with Ohm and Calibre, however. But I questions "Advent"--I only know that as a segment of the Christian calender, not a scientific term. Am I missing something?
Advent is a little bit of a stretch, but its derivation in the speaker is legal, not religious. When a company first starts up it is referred to by the attorneys as "an advent company". Henry Kloss liked the term and took it as the company name. It means a coming or arrival, which is also what it signifies in the Christian sense.I left it in because of your genesis, which also has dual meanings. Loosly, I thought they fell into the philosophical class, rather than mathematical or technical. Both are no more scientific than some others, but they are not in the class of superlatives that many companies picked.
I thought that was a fun exercise, and I'm sure we missed a couple.
The most popular names seem to be either some combination of audio, sonic, vox or voice, or phase or someone's name and not always the founder. Fourier, Bell, and Gauss, for example.
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