Best and Worst names in Audio

It's not a brand name, but Adcom preamps and amps are named GFP- and GFA- respectively, which are acronyms for Great F-ing Preamp and Great F-ing Amp. Really.

Personally I've always been amused with the names Vendetta Research and CTC Blowtorch, both of which I own. There are stories behind those names :-)

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.