Pronunciations for common audio names, or how to avoid sounding like a knucklehead

Assuming that the "Dyn" is for dynamic, I'd pronounce it Dine-audio.

 

I'm sure it's Mack-uh-fee.

I've always said Harmon Kar-don, emphasis on the first syllable.

I've heard people say Tech-nicks. I've always said Tech-neeks.

 

After working a couple of years in a stereo warehouse (many moons ago), we developed pet names for some of the gear. So just to throw a monkey wrench into this discussion, we used to call:
Onkyo = Oink yo
Sansui = San sewage
Pioneer = P**sing ear
Phase Linear = Flame Linear (for their habit of blowing up)

 

Bose? Teac?

Pronounced Krap

Then there's beer, Lowenbrau anyone?

 

I agree! Except, old Teac stuff is very good, the new stuff is terrible.

 

Well they were wrong then weren't they, Froderick?


P.S. Living in Lexington, Kentucky, the home of Thiel Loudspeaker Manufacturing, and having visited the plant, it's pronounced "teel".

 

I've mispronounced Denon and Thiel before I was corrected, and also Bryston (which I wrongly associated with the word 'hysterics').

'Rega' is the new one I learned from this thread.

 

Yeah...except they're Danish, so that makes me wonder what the proper rponunciation is.

 

It is Mac-AAAH-fee.

 

There was a topic months ago in the visual and arts section of how the Sony´s Wega TV should be pronounced.

 

REGA = Ray-Ga
Naim = Name
Grado =-gray-doh
Dynaudio = Dine-Audio
Ikemi = I-kee-me
Genki = Ghen-ki
Ekos-Ecosse
Sony = get me paracetemal now!!

 

Interesting Tim. I would pronounce only 2 differently.

REGA = Re-Guh or Ray-guh
Sony = Soh-Knee

 

I know the Dynamo Open Air Festival in The Netherlands is pronounced either "Din-am-oh" or "Deen-am-oh" (I'll have to get out my Fates Warning DVD to find out), so I wonder too if it might actually be other than "Dine-audio".

C'mon...there's gotta be some Danes on this board.







And Danes don't lie.

 

The Danes don't lie, but are sleeping right now. My Danish is a bit rusty, but Dynaudio is pronounced Dewn-ow-dio (I think). Short ew sound, like in Newt. Do I make sense?

Tandberg = Tand-Barry, BTW.

 

I was told that it was REE-ga, because Roy Gandy derived it from the word "regal."

 

Well, may as well throw a Canadian contingent in there.

Classe = Class-eh