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    Default Help - need a name for the Towers!

    Hey guys...

    My creative juices are almost empty due to various engineering/technical issues draining them.

    I think it is time that we figure out a formal name for the new tower so I am coming to you for some help.

    While we were devouring the world famous "porker" pizza this past Saturday afternoon, someone mentioned the name "Sierra Summit" and it seems to be sticking with me quite nicely. "Summit" for short -- or maybe Summit-3?

    The tower is definitely part of the Sierra family so in naming the speaker, please keep that in mind.

    Please throw your ideas out there and I have some custom Ascend baseball hats for the top 3 names.

    Have fun!
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    David Fabrikant
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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    Hmmm..........what is a great name?

    The "Everest"

    The "Kilimanjaro"

    There's two to start it off!
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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    How bout, the Peak or the Sierra Mount or the Ridge

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    How about - Alpine or Sierra Alpine
    Tahoe?

    I do like Summit.
    -curtis

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    After one scotch of deliberation:

    The Ascend High Cascade Tower.

    Shorthand could be:
    Sierra-3 HCT, Sierra Cascade (SC), Sierra-3 Cascade Tower (SCT), or just Ascend HCT.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range
    The Cascades are just a geographic step north from the Sierra Nevada mountains, a trail of impressive, dangerous places...specifically North American volcanoes, called the High Cascades.

    cas·cade
       /kęsˈkeɪd/ Show Spelled [kas-keyd] Show IPA noun, verb, -cad·ed, -cad·ing.
    –noun
    1. a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
    2. a series of shallow or steplike waterfalls, either natural or artificial.
    3. anything that resembles a waterfall, esp. in seeming to flow or fall in abundance: a cascade of roses covering the wall.5.
    6. a type of firework resembling a waterfall in effect.
    7. Chemistry . a series of vessels, from each of which a fluid successively overflows to the next, thus presenting a large absorbing surface, as to a gas.
    8. Electricity . an arrangement of component devices, as electrolytic cells, each of which feeds into the next in succession.
    9. Biochemistry . a series of reactions catalyzed by enzymes that are activated sequentially by successive products of the reactions, resulting in an amplification of the initial response.
    - verb
    1. (intr) to flow or fall in

    It's all there: flow, fire, elegance, beauty, prominence, power. Also it seems to pass the google test.
    Last edited by Jonnyozero3; 11-22-2010 at 10:15 PM.
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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    I also had:

    Crest
    Palisade
    Matterhorn
    Olympia
    Jon O.

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    Quote Originally Posted by Jonnyozero3 View Post
    After one scotch of deliberation:

    The Ascend High Cascade Tower.

    Shorthand could be:
    Sierra-3 HCT, Sierra Cascade (SC), Sierra-3 Cascade Tower (SCT), or just Ascend HCT.

    ...
    There have been a lot of good suggestions, I don't have one of my own, but I like the one above the best. My vote would go to:

    The Ascend Cascade Tower

    or maybe the Ascend Teaton Tower?

    It keeps the trend of naming the speakers after mountain ranges and the name "Cascade" has a certain sense of sophistication about it. Way better than Rocky, or Alp, Himalaya IMHO.

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    The Ascend Sonoras.

    A Sonora is defined as a summer thunderstorm in the desert mountains of Mexico and Baja Calorfornia. It is also a pass in the Sierra Nevada......

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    I've posted here before and suggested - as some before and after me - that the best name for the towers would be a short name (Sierra-2, Sierra-T, Sierra Towers, etc.), but wanted to throw out there a couple more...

    Maestro (I think there's already a company or a line of spkeakers that uses this name).

    Bravura. Here's the definition of the word by Merriam-Webster:

    1: a musical passage requiring exceptional agility and technical skill in execution
    2: a florid brilliant style
    3: a show of daring or brilliance

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    Default Re: Help - need a name for the Towers!

    Thinking about this for a long time, and all I can really call it is the Sierra-1 NrT Tower.

    It's an evolution of the Sierra-1, with some fair similarities, so it makes the most sense to me, and most likely to anyone else that's heard of the Sierra-1 name.

    I'd save Sierra-2 for a next generation remake if you ever plan on it.

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