[Beagle]

Is it AKG? OR A-K-G? Or Aw Kah Jay? Help me with this people, it's been bothering me for years.

 

[dcg]

I've always just pronounced the letters - A-K-G.

 

[Possum]

Quote:

Aw Kah Jay?

It takes a Canadian to mangle a simple three-letter-acronym into something like this.

J/K!!!

AKG is an acronym for the German words translated directly to have the words (going by fading memory) "Audio Video ...something else..." I dunno, I think Gradoistcool did the translation on HeadWize a while ago.

EDIT 1: Ok, well here's what Altavista's translator had to say about "Akustische und Kinogeräte GesmbH":

Acoustic one and cinema devices Gesmbh

EDIT 2: Found that HeadWize thread. Quoting Gradoistcool directly:

"and for anybody that does not know what AKG stands for it stands for Akustische und Kino Geräte, which means simply acoustic and cinematic equipment "

(hmm, he has a slightly different interpretation of AKG, even though I got the the German words represented by AKG directly from the German AKG website)

 

[secretagent44]

i think it's actually pronounced "nougat"

 

[CaptBubba]

Same here, A-K-G. I didn't know exactly how to pronounce Sennheiser until I asked a fellow boarder who happened to be german how to say it.

Grado gave my trouble, still does. I say gra (as in grass) dough, aparently it is supposed to be gray-dough.

 

[gloco]

How do you pronounce sennheiser? I always say Sen-Hi-Sir

 

[chych]

Yeah I used think Grado was pronounced "Gr-ah-dough"...

Also, Beyerdynamic is pronounced "Buy-er-dynamic"... I thought it was "bay-er-dynamic"...

And Sennheiser I believe is "Zen-high-zer"

And Etymotic is "Et-e-mow-tick"

I'm sure Sony has some Japanese pronounciation or something... maybe "saw-nee"?

 

[KR...]

Grado = Gra-oh

It's Italian, but you say it the same way in spanish. Romance languages are cool that way

 

[Joe Bloggs]

I think Neruda would pronounce it as something like 'hic'

 

[KR...]

AKG = AKG

 

[Raymond Kim]

We're in quite the sarcastic mood tonight, aren't we Beagle?

 

[RickG]

AKG= P-H-O-L-L........

 

[kelly]

Quote:

Originally posted by Possum It takes a Canadian to mangle a simple three-letter-acronym into something like this. J/K!!!

In Canada, they pronounce it "eh K G", actually.

Kelly

 

[cajunchrist]

It's spelled AKG, but it's pronounced throat warbler mangrove.

I like nougat. It's often better than the 'serious' part of the candy bar.

 

[Nick Dangerous]

"Ah-Kee-Geege"

"Ack-Ghee"

"Aka-Guh"

Ehm, I have no idea.