"To keep the battery healthy, the unit should be charged at least every 6 months. if not used for a long time, it may not charge again."
... it may not charge again? Haven't heard this warning in consumer electronics before.
TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
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#12I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
Look how beautiful and well-designed it is. This is almost beyond Apple-level taste. I would throw money at this company if I had the inclination to get into this kind of hobby :-)
edit: beyond just how it looks and the mechanical properties, I also wonder how much additional value they added during integration. Yes the BOM may sound trivial ("small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's") but IME it's easy to mess this up without a lot of extra attention. Example: my TV is plugged into a DAC which powers standing speakers, and every time I turn it on, there is a discontinuity that blasts a "pop" at maximum volume through the speakers regardless of volume level. Or you could end up with a line level hum if not shielded properly. Etc.
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#13Stupidly expensive and I have absolutely no need for it, but just look how beautiful it is.
It's almost disgustingly expensive for what it is.
If it was a digital recorder similar to a tascam portastudio I could see it being really awesome as a sort of high end version of the standalone recording system but just an interface seems incredibly overpriced - you can buy compact interfaces already (they’ve been designed for video applications by zoom and tascam) that have quality preamps and great battery life which also function as recorders. It does look nice though. I hope they are able to scale up on their products so they become more affordable because I would really like to but their synth but I am not quite in the experience bracket to justify it but it seems really fun.
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#14I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
Small run production with no expense spared of a designer product for niche applications.
Expensive expensive expensive! That case looks like it was milled!
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#15Halo hardware, absolutely, but their design sense is utterly phenomenal. What a gorgeous piece of kit.
If I were ever to go back to the Wintel world (or whatever the word is for Windows+AMD), Teenage Engineering's computer is probably the only one my wife would allow in the house:
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#16I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
>I wonder why it's so expensive [...] Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's?
If tech products should cost the sum of their parts then an iPhone 14 Pro and an RTX 3090 should cost about $300. After all, they're just a PCB with some components on them.
You're ignoring the enormous R&D costs (engineering salaries, hardware prototyping, sales, marketing, support, etc.) that must be recouped, while also turning a profit, through the sale of each of these low volume products.
Developing consumer hardware in the west aint cheap, that's why most western brands other than Apple, and a few other high-end niche ones, pulled out of the consumer market.
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#17"To keep the battery healthy, the unit should be charged at least every 6 months. if not used for a long time, it may not charge again." ... it may not charge again? Haven't heard this warning in consumer electronics before.
It’s common for things with non-swappable batteries but companies might not be so explicit about the need for it. Have a higher end video camera that is same way, have to keep reminding myself to keep it charged up.
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#18Looks a bit like their cancelled take on Kanye West's stem player (https://imgur.com/a/ECehY1T), especially those faders on the front.
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#19"To keep the battery healthy, the unit should be charged at least every 6 months. if not used for a long time, it may not charge again." ... it may not charge again? Haven't heard this warning in consumer electronics before.
https://superuser.com/questions/1517665/laptop-battery-not-c... batteries that go through long periods of disuse often have problems, I would suppose that companies that do not mention this edge case aren't as conscientious as those that do.
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#20I wonder why it's so expensive, I know it should be higher than regular consumers expect because it's a low volume high quality product, but so is the OP-1 and that seems to have a lot more manufacturing overhead. Wouldn't this product just contain a small signal processing FPGA, a bunch of ADC's and a couple DAC's? It's small but I think those should fit fine in that enclosure with a thick PCB. Anyone know if there'…
Serious answer: expensive synths are the new expensive guitars. For the previous generation, guitar makers began cranking out premium priced guitars for purchase by people outside their prime music making years and into their prime earning years. Said guitars frequently just hung on the wall, which was fine because they were designed to be status items anyway.