That Letter Dash Number is an old tradition that dies hard.
Casio : CT-S1000V, etc, etc.
Medeli loves to do this too.
For example :
MZ520, MZ537, MZ538, MZ725, MZ729, MZ923, MZ928
SP-C120, SP-C121, SP-C220, SP-A500, SP201, SP201+, SP4200
I think when a company has a lot of products, and is more a manufacturer, Letter Number names are just easier for them.
I’m slightly bothered by the SP-404 mk2 being the fourth SP-404 model.
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Great point!
Intellijel Jellymix makes me envision a toothpaste you’d see on the shelf at the store. Every time. I know I’ve said it before in this forum, I feel strongly about this.
It’s like these fuckers just went with a name none of us have a fucking chance of being able to actually spell. All them i’s, j’s and l’s man.
It’s like they’re really mad at someone with dyslexia.
There was a takeout joint near us in Bed-Stuy called Fish & Amp Chips. It’s still there, you can look it up on Google Maps. I’m convinced that at some point, someone cut “Fish & Chips” out of an HTML email and pasted it into a text field or something, during the ordering of the sign, because in HTML it’s “Fish & Chips”. But that’s probably me overthinking it.
[Edit: heh, I had to work to get that last quote to come out right, apparently the Discourse editor does not sanitize as cleanly as I thought.]
There’s something very “old school Japanese corporate” about it. Casio. Yamaha.
Korg did it too in the pre-Tats era. Wasn’t their old digital drum machine the DDD-1? Nowadays they’re more the sib who colors outside the lines, so they’re not afraid of names…
Roland of course is the fuckup of that corporate family. They try to end their products with numbers, but every number is “1” (except when it’s a tribute product with a “3,” “8,” or “9.”) They can never quite get anything right. Even some of their greatest products are mistakes…
Surprised no one mentioned the KORG 
(XD)
Makes me think of the dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, We. People’s names are all Letter-Number.
D-503, S-4711, I-330, R-13, O-90, U
( Really i should use the Cyrillic non-translated names. )
We inspired Orwell for 1984. Orwell ( Blair ) took more of the Polyend approach using bland common English names like Smith, Jones, Parsons.
Something about the way the big Japanese brands do letter/number combos always drives me crazy.
After making the Jupiter 4 and Jupiter 8, which have 4 and 8 voices, Roland releases the Juno 6, Juno 60, and Juno 106, which all have six voices. And they’re all supposed to have a hyphen, which is conventional for abbreviations with numbers (TR-808) but there’s no tradition at all of noun-number hyphenation (Juno-106).
Casio’s CZ series was numbered as (checks notes) the CZ 101, CZ 230s, CZ 1000, CZ 2600s, CZ 3000, CZ 5000. At least with those, there’s a loose connection between the larger number and more polyphony…until the CZ 1, which has the highest voice count of all.
And that’s not even getting into the nightmare of Yamaha’s naming conventions, or the general misery of trying to scan catalogues for digital pianos that aren’t Nord.
What, nobody likes the new Toyota bZ4X Xle?
You mean the Toyota Busyforks She?
You might be right. There’s some great examples of things going to print without anyone bothering to check.
Ibanez has some amazingly memorable product names for their guitars. The RGDIX6MPB-SBB, or the RG950WFMZ-TGE, and of course the AZ24027-TFF.
This is why Boss is, well the “boss” of music gear. 90% of their products do exactly what they say they do and they all sound amazing.
Had to do some soul searching on this recently as I was coming up with a new alias for an upcoming album. Had discussions with a few people and landed on no punctuation at all.
So the album/artist is going to be “plus pro” (probably all lower case like that, but will have another soulsearch about that).
I considered plus/pro and +/pro. The + will still feature prominently in artwork, but not in the written name for the sake of reasonable metadata and searchability. We decided against any special characters for that reason.
Maybe I can use that / down the line for future artwork.
Yeah, my band have decided we’re not going to use spaces between words.
Because we’re them sort of twats.
I always liked the story that the Korg 01/W was supposed to be the Korg M10, a successor to the M1, but somebody saw it upside down.