Correct way to pronounce certain brand names

Some of the names of these companies get pronounced several different ways.
Which is right?
A few that come to mind:
Pro-ject
Is it like a science project or a movie projector?
Rega
Like Vega or Reega
Sonus Faber
Like father or Fabian?
Triangle
Some insist Tree-on-glay

Which is right? What are others?

 

To me the hyphen makes it Prō-Ject. The others I hear different even from dealers. As for Triangle, i guess if you pronounce Target with a long ā at the end, then I guess all bets are off.

 

Target pronounced tar-jay
JC Penny-Jacque Penae'

 

I know this thread is in "Audio Hardware" so wants to focus on audio companies, but screw it - Myke opened the gates!

"Hormel" should rhyme with "normal". It's not really "Hor-mell".

The first part of "Hyundai" should be phonetic and not drop the "y" to be "Hunday".

Also, the "dai" should be "deh", so it's "Hyundeh", not "Hunday".

That's all I got!

 

Classe- Is it pronounced class or class a?

Belles- Is it pronounced bells or bell s?

 

CLASSE- Good question

 

Paul Darwin pronounces Rega on YouTube. It sounds like reega.

 

Audeze = Au-diss-see or Au-deez?
Focal = FO-cal or Focal (rhymes with local)?
Emotiva = E-MO-tee-va or E-mo-TEE-va?
Wal-Mart = Wally World?

That's it for now........

 

Devialet. That's one for which I've heard a half dozen variations.

 

Seems like I recall reading that Audeze was pronounced Odyssey. I may be totally wrong though.

I had a Jolida for years and always mispronounced it
I said jol-eye-da
Its jo- leed-a

 

Oppo - "ah-poe" or "Oh-poe"?

 

I watched Michael Fremer do a video of a factory tour at Rega a couple months ago. He starts off in the video saying "we are here at Rega" and pronounced it like reega. Everyone else at Rega pronounced it that way. I had always pronounced it with a short e like Vega. I had been pronouncing it wrong for so many years. And nobody corrected me.

So I can relate to the reason for this thread.

I do know how to pronounce "Schiit". I intentionally mispronounce it when mentioning the name in public so that I don't sound rude.

 

Shouldnt it be "Reega" then?
Damn English lingo.

 

Little Fwend without alcohol in your system...

 

I always pronounced it the first way (like "opportunity"). However, I recently watched a video on Crutchfield's website where the guy pronounced it the second way (like "oh no")

 

Take a look at their new store "Schiitr", where among other things they promise to provide "A comfortable place to sit down ...".

Introducing The Schiitr | Schiit Audio

 

For the old documents in history, they spelled some works with a "f". Like its it fuffecient to continue on. It was really strange but its on some Ye Ol' documents from way back in the days.

 

Their full actual quote is "A comfortable place to sit down and listen to (a lot of) our gear." Just "sounds" better the way I truncated it.

 

"ClipShhhh"

And you much hold finger to mouth whilst.

 

This reminded me of Woody on Cheers quoting "life, liberty, and the purfuit of happiness."

 

Classe = Class - eh

Its Canadian, eh !

 

Oppo being chinese, it's most likely əʊ-poh or "oh-poh".

 

I say "pro" with a long "o", as in "professional".

It's pronounced "reega", and spelled with all low-case letters.[/QUOTE]

I pronounce "Toshiba" with a long "o".

 

Tell the company's ad agencies that.

 

I think the "e" is pronounced as a long "a".