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I'll start this off with common words in the Speaker building hobby, like manufacturers names, etc.... then dilute my focus into words that seem to get misspelled, misstated, or misunderstood frequently. We can't always get this stuff from textual bases.
Manufacturers:
Accuton; "Ack-Q-tahn", from accuracy aplenty.
Hiquphon; "Hick-uh-fahn", founded by Oskar originally for the Fried tweeters.
Visaton; (auf Deutsch) "Fee-suh-taun", English I hear "Vy-Suh-tahn", means to display aplenty.
Aurum Cantus; (from Latin) "Ow-room Kahn-tooss", but English normally "Or-uhm Kan-tuss", and means golden melody or song.
SEAS is an acronym for Scandinavian Electro Acoustic Systems, and is typically pronounced as "Say-Ahz".
Audax, according to my BIL who was raised in France, comes from the tongue- "O-dahgz".
AURA- obviously "Or-Ah".
Eminence = "Em-In-Ents"
ERSE; "Err-Suh"
ETON; auf Deutsch would be "Ay-Taun", but English say "EE-tuhn".
Fostex = "Fahss-Tecks", not 'tek'.
Fountek = "Fown-tek", not "Fahn-tek".
Hi-Vi is "Hy-Vy" to me.
RAAL to me could be a few things:
"Rahl" is what I hear most often. "R-al" is also heard, but "Ray-uhl" could also be a possibility.
*Please correct me if you've heard it from the manufacturer's lips.
Tang Band is not Tang Bang. "Tang-Band".
Vifa = "Vee-Fuh".
Goertz and Mundorf should be auf Deutsch- "Go-wur-tss" and "Moon-Dorf" with rolls/lilt on the 'R'.
Neutrik auf Deutsch is "Noy-Treek", but commonly English says "New-trick".
Behringer- "Bayr-Reenger"
Most of the others I would think to be self explanatory.
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To make a cabinet more dead, the term is to 'Damp', not 'dampen'. Therefore, the word 'Damping' is also correct.
'Loose' means to be not-tight, and should not be confused for 'Lose'; which is 1-to not be found or 2-lost.
'Tour' is pronounced 'Too(2)-Err', not 'Torr'.
Larynx and Pharynx are 'Layr-EEnks' and 'Fayr-EEnks', not 'nix'.
I'll add to this blog as I see fit.....
Later,
Wolf
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Advise is the verb form, pronounced 'ad-vyz'. Advice is the term for the recommendation. Ad-v-ice.
I know the other side of the coin backs up their usage of 'dampening' with the textbook definition of the word to make their point. To me, 'damping' is still the correct term. Let's think of this in terms of other 'damp(en)ing' usage in terms of speaker design....
Q is a measurement of 'damping', and 'dampening' is not used in this sense in most cases. When you are getting a xover set up, the Q (or amount of damping) the filter uses is what categorizes the filter. 0.5 = LR, 0.707 = BW, etc; but I digress.... Dampening is not used to describe Xover Q.
Qa, Qb, etc; are all the amount of damping the box alignments use to get your rolloff profile simulated.
Now- I would be open to the premise that 'dampening' is typically only used to describe the material utilized in the Qa, Qb, and absorption factors in the box simulation. If this is the average/typical case, then Box lining material should be 'dampening', and 'damping' is the process or what the dampening is actually doing.
So- as used in frequent, I still say that damping is the correct word, but the variation is usually characterized as being utilized differently in context.