How do say speakers headphones and so on in your mother tongue?

[Raindog123]

Speaker - Luidspreker
Headphones - koptelefoons / hoofdtelefoons
Amp - versterker (to strengthen)
DAC - digitaal-analoogomzetter
Turntable - platenspeler

A lot of loanwords from the English vocabulary.

Snake oil - gebakken lucht (hot air), kwakzalvermethodes (witchdoctor remedies), and finally slangenolie (snake oil)

..my five years in Holland (Twente University, Enschede)

 

[Katji]

Speaker - Luidspreker
Headphones - koptelefoons / hoofdtelefoons
Amp - versterker (to strengthen)
DAC - digitaal-analoogomzetter
Turntable - platenspeler

A lot of loanwords from the English vocabulary.

hmmm...

luidspreker
oorfone
versterker
DAC ? net DAC, I suppose, but... digitale analoog omskakelaar
draaitafel

 

[Raindog123]

hmmm...

Subtle differences of Afrikaans vs Nederlands?

 

[Katji]

It's often quite different. My understanding of Dutch/Nederlands (written) ranges from about 20-30% to 90%+. Understanding conversation, not much, in a week in Amsterdam. It would take a few weeks, and a few lessons to sort out some details. Afrikaans is not my home language but it was second language at school, and general slang is Afrikaans+English+Indian+whatever.

 

[Killingbeans]

Speaker: Højttaler "Loudspeaker"
Headphones: Hovedtelefoner "Headphones"
Turntable: Pladespiller "Plate Player"
Vinyl: Vinyl/Plader/Vinylplader "Plates/Vinyl Plates"
Amplifier: Forstærker "Amplifier/Reinforcer"
DAC: DAC/Digital til Analog Konverter ""
Snake Oil: Fup og Svindel "Scams n' fraud"

 

[q3cpma]

Speaker: Haut-parleur or enceinte (though haut-parleur can be used to refer to the transducer itself).
Headphones: Casque (literally "helmet", the audio suffix is often omitted).
Turntable: Platine vinyl.
Vinyl: Vinyl(e).
Amplifier: Amplificateur.
DAC: Convertisseur numérique-analogique but more commonly DAC.
Snake Oil: Poudre de perlimpinpin.

 

[pjug]

My mother? They would all be gizmos or whachamacallits or doohickies or thingies.

 

[StefaanE]

Vinyl: Vinyl(e).

Quid du beau vieux mot microsillon pour vinyl ?

 

[pozz]

perlimpinpin

Le mot "perlimpinpin", pourrait être une onomatopée de formule magique telle que le célèbre "abracadabra".

That's pretty funny.

 

[tvrgeek]

"Cans"

 

[o7_brother]

Headphone - auscultador, or "fones" for slang (pronounced phón-shh)

Earphone - auricular

Turntable - gira-discos (literally "spins-discs")

Loudspeaker (aka driver) - altifalante (literally "hightalker" or "loudspeaker")

Speaker (entire object) - coluna, which means column. Probably comes from the shape of floorstanding speakers.

Snake oil - banha de cobra (we call it snake lard, close enough I guess)

Oh, and you'll never guess what "conversor analógico-digital" means

 

[q3cpma]

Quid du beau vieux mot microsillon pour vinyl ?

To be honest, I'm not part of any audiophile circle, so it might still be used there. Still, the de facto word for it among the normal population is vinyle or disque vinyle.

 

[StefaanE]

To be honest, I'm not part of any audiophile circle, so it might still be used there. Still, the de facto word for it among the normal population is vinyle or disque vinyle.

My vocabulary dates from my youth, which was when LPs and singles were the main commercial sound medium, and we called them “disques” in Belgium (“T’as le dernier tube de Johnny sur disque ?, tu peux me le copier sur K7 ?”).
I never kept up with the evolution of the language, my kids speak Luxembourgish socially, and the French and German they use at school doesn’t include the current French or German idioms.

 

[Fledermaus]

the de facto word for it among the normal population is vinyle or disque vinyle.

Before CD-era they'd simply call it un disque, now there's à need for disambiguation so it's mostly un vinyle; microsillon was used earlier to mark the distinction from 78 rpms IIRC.

 

[Ron Texas]

My mom grew up speaking American English.

 

[Harmonie]

Speaker: Haut-parleur or enceinte (though haut-parleur can be used to refer to the transducer itself).
Headphones: Casque (literally "helmet", the audio suffix is often omitted).
Turntable: Platine vinyl.
Vinyl: Vinyl(e).
Amplifier: Amplificateur.
DAC: Convertisseur numérique-analogique but more commonly DAC.
Snake Oil: Poudre de perlimpinpin.

Now the same with initials:
LS = LS German, English Loudspeaker, Lautsprecher
HP = Haut parleur in French >> but Head phones in US
Haut parleur, Enceinte (pregnant !), Baffle.
Boomer <> Woofer

 

[Harmonie]

Kabel Salat !

 

[Raindog123]

Le mot "perlimpinpin", pourrait être une onomatopée de formule magique telle que le célèbre "abracadabra".

That's pretty funny.

...also known as "трах-тиби-дох"

 

[Aldoszx]

Speaker - Boxa /Difuzor
Headphones - Casti
Amp - Amplificator
DAC - Convertor Digital-Analog
Turntable - Pick-up
Snake Oil - Ulei de sarpe

 

[Duke650]

• Speaker: reprosoustava
• Headphones: sluchátka
• Turntable: gramofon
• Vinyl: gramodeska
• Amplifier: zesilovač
• DAC: digitálně-analogový převodník