How do you pronounce iBasso?
Mar 8, 2013 at 2:39 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 11
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Title says it all, stupid question, I know, but it's been bugging me ever since I sent them a considerable  chunk of cash for my DX100...
 
Mar 8, 2013 at 4:27 AM Post #2 of 11
Eye bass (as in fish , not low freq) oh
 
Mar 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM Post #3 of 11
That's the way I was originally inclined to pronounce it when I first saw it.
 
Not trying to argue, but do you have any source to back up this pronunciation?  Anything official from iBasso?
 
Mar 8, 2013 at 11:19 AM Post #4 of 11
Well I am English, live in England and have a degree in English, I know the language pretty well.
 
Manufacturers can of course say it how they want to, but in English it would be a soft A, as in Lasso, or Lass or Mass
 
...and the other way ie BASEOO - just sounds silly
 
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM Post #5 of 11
No offense, but iBasso is a Chinese company, it's quite possible that their name as it's typed in English is an anglicized version of their name in their native tongue.
 
As you mentioned, they can say it as they wish, I'm just trying to find out how THEY pronounce it.
 
Mar 9, 2013 at 8:41 AM Post #8 of 11
Not entirely correct...at least Cantonese has the sound "so" 
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(iBasso is based in Shenzhen IIRC)
 
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mimouille said:
Yes, this is certainly the English name. In Chinese the sound "so" does not exist.
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