Neumann Pronunciation

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I've heard Neumann pronounced two different ways...Newman or Noyman. Whish is correct?

Terry
 
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Pronouncing Behringer

I guess my straight line didn't elicit any smart-ass comments! How do you pronounce Behringer? I expected either (1) "Crap" or (2) "If you never buy the junk, why would you have to pronouce it."
 
I'm German, so here's how we do it:

Neumann is pronounced Noyman; the a is pronounced similar to the a in "father", just a little shorter.

Behringer is pronounced with a light vowel similar to the e in "best", but a little longer.
 
do u say sennheiser sign-is-er, or sign-ize-er, or senn-hi-zer?
 
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Herwig (that's unpronounceable for non-german-language-speaking :p )
 
Ok here's my try:

Sennheiser=Zenhizer
Neumann=Noymunn ('cause the vowel in man just doesn't fit)
 
Here in the South it is pronounced: "Ner-man"






...well, maybe not.
 
Neuman u87

is it "noy-man You 87" or "noy-man micro 87" since that "u" is a symbol for "micro" as in "microfarad"?
 
micro would be µ, not u.

I think it would be okay in an english speaking context to say

"you 87", it would sound more german (as if anyone would like to sound german...):rolleyes: to say "ooh 87" (yes, ooh. Like in ooh, baby!)

David
 
Actually pronouncing U (= Universalmikrofon) "ooh" would only make sense if you pronounced the number in German as well. Which I guess nobody would do.

Sennheiser as others have suggested is "Zen-hi-zer," accent on the first syllable.

I'm tying to think of other German brand names

Beyer ("Bye-er") comes to mind. Others are mostly just letters such as AKG (actually Austrian), RME or SPL or are english language coinages anyway, such as Mindprint.
 
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