A lot of the frustration comes when they try to make something like that but fall just a bit short. From the top of my head, Yamaha HS8WI means studio monitor with 8 inch driver, W is for white and I stands for built-in mounting points. But then, HS8S is a completely different thing entirely. Or sound cards, where a lot of manufacturers follow a naming standard that goes something like 2x2, 2x4, 4x4 etc, where the first number is the amount of inputs with latter being the amount of outputs… until you get to 18x20 where it typically means it has 8 inputs and 10 outputs, but with an ability to connect 10 more ins and outs via ADAT, which in practice means you can just buy the same unit twice for a 16x20 setup and wonder where the 2 missing inputs are.
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A lot of the frustration comes when they try to make something like that but fall just a bit short. From the top of my head, Yamaha HS8WI means studio monitor with 8 inch driver, W is for white and I stands for built-in mounting points. But then, HS8S is a completely different thing entirely. Or sound cards, where a lot of manufacturers follow a naming standard that goes something like 2x2, 2x4, 4x4 etc, where the first number is the amount of inputs with latter being the amount of outputs… until you get to 18x20 where it typically means it has 8 inputs and 10 outputs, but with an ability to connect 10 more ins and outs via ADAT, which in practice means you can just buy the same unit twice for a 16x20 setup and wonder where the 2 missing inputs are.