Jump to content

Your 5 Favorite Brand Names?


Rick

Recommended Posts

Brand loyalty comes very hard from my perspective. I am iron-arse
hard to please when it comes to corporations, and in the current time I
have loyalty to VERY few. Even the ones I'm loyal to only apply to
certain product segments within those companies....and if those segments
disappear or fail to be lived up to I discard that loyalty in due
course. I have an exception below....

- Klipsch: The exemplary openness of this forum
is a testament to how Klipsch stands up as a company: PERFORMANCE. We
can come in here and compare and contrast gears that compete directly
against Klipsch product, and in many cases members mix in these
other gears while still offering us a home to create and build our
systems. Oh, then they let us beat each other up over how to best feed them. What other company allows such open natured discussion of
competing products on thier own forum? Klipsch can do this because no
matter what us internet based audio junkies do with it (and that's a
considerable danger), Klipsch's products consistently rise above the
competition, particularly in value per dollar at most any given price
point. While I will always be impressed forever regarding Heritage
Series, and would be a fanboy of the old brand regardless, I still look
to Klipsch today as being still worthy of that loyalty, as they exhibit
many open characteristics that few other companies have the guts to do.
This forum as it stands says a LOT. THAT's "putting yourself out there".

- McIntosh (audio, of course): Again, primarily a fanboy
of the old schoiol gear but am still impressed with what they do today. I
like the simpler, hard wired early tube stuff, but one has to be
impressed with their attention to the old school ideas today without
ignoring modern realities and technologies. Still being a player in the
high end audio biz over all the changes in that industry is a FEAT.

- Toyota: I owe a good portion of my progress here on
this forum to this company. What the hello does my car choice have to do
with my audio exploits? The fact that I don't spend exorbitant repair
fees and replace my cars very often. When I started buying Toyota
vehicles my car troubles stopped. Corolla, Camry, Four-Runner and light
trucks completely changed the game of "average affordable cars for
average people", and the Sienna might be one of the most versatile
vehicles I've ever driven. Aside from the basic regular maintenance,
they start every day and run better at their respective mileages than
any other cars I have ever owned. Not getting "nicked and dimed" by my
vehicles allows for progress to occur in other areas of life.

-
"The Vintage Brand": In many, many cases, I am "brand loyal" to many of
the old classic companies who made stuff so good they last for years,
or are of such quality as to not be available new today. I buy used
Electrolux vacuums, Telefunken 12AX7s and other vintage tubes, and used
goods of all kinds, because older durable goods of 40 years ago are
often preferable to the brand new of today. Furniture often falls into
this category, too.I oft purchase used/vintage because it's preferable
or more affordable to new.

- "The Craftsman": The individual
craftperson - often with no brand at all, might be the ones I am most
loyal to. Craig (AKA NOSValves), Mark at JiucyMusic, and many other
single craftspeople provide the best quality AND service for the $$$. It
is with these individuals that quality still exists and is easily
recognizable, a trait all too absent in the "mass produced, lowest
price, one size fits all" goods of today. The best brands are only the
name of the person who did the work.....the best "brand" of all.

Honorable mentions: Panasonic, Nikon, Honda, Sony, JBL, Krell, New Belgium Brewing, John Deere.

I also am impressed with a company like Harley-Davidson, but I know I will never own one so many brands like it are not on my list.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

He laughs and commands “you get down on your knees

Bow down your heads and all pray to me”

Radioactive demon wicked laughter and jokes

All the while scheming Metal Devil Cokes

Make it sweet as candy, pretty to the eye

Push it to the kiddies, sell it with a lie

Tommy had to try it, asked me to try it too

But a little voice inside said you know what’s good for you

His teeth started melting, his stomach melted too

I knew he’d lost his mind by the time the can was through

Metal Devil Cokes

Caramel colored hoax

rusty kettle

teeth are brittle

Metal Devil Cokes

Metal Devil Cokes

Through your gut it soaks

Coincidental

Rotten dental

Sentimental folks

Metal Devil Cokes

Friendly bunch of blokes

Phosphorental

Excremental

Metal Devil Cokes

But he just kept on drinkin’, cuz he was possessed

Sugar and caffeine, the phosphoric acid test

Then he just melted to a puddle on the floor

Skin and bones dissolved and flowed right out of the door

Down the sewer to the river, down the river to the sea

With a half-life of forever it killed the fish and me

Now the world’s polluted with Metal Devil Cokes

Well I guess I’m just lucky, drank most drinks from A to Z

But cuz I didn’t drink Cokes the Lord had mercy on me

So here I am in heaven, poison water folks

And the boatman on the boat to hell is metal devil cokes

The jester in the gallery is metal devil cokes

He laughs and commands “you get down on your knees

Bow down your heads and all pray to me”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...