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I absolutely love their design language. I'll never have a need to own any of their products but I wish I could buy the gadgets I do need/want with this kind of design/style.
I do also expect to see plenty of hipsters unnecessarily self-flagellating themselves with it, per TE tradition.
Once, just once, I would like to see someone say “why is this so expensive, it’s just […]” and then build one themselves, and bring it to market, for that lower cost. Go ahead, just try.
Also most of the disagreers are also ignoring the "bring it to market" step. Even if you built something of equivalent product design as TE, building one for yourself is vastly different than doing a product run where you expect each product to be the same. PCB design and manufacturing is relatively easy and inexpensive, but all the plastic/rubber forming/molding is much trickier and significantly expensive. Getting past the manufacturing aspect, there's the whole marketing, sales, and distribution aspect, which aren't anything to be sneezed at either. Seriously a lot of work goes into bringing a product to market that DIYers building single devices or very tiny runs of devices don't even consider. While TE might not be doing Behringer-level runs of products, their runs are definitely bigger than a lone DIYer could ever handle by themselves.
(Note: This isn't to say that TE's products are necessarily better for everyone than something they could make themselves (or buy for less from a different company), of course. After all, the world's musicians got by just fine before this mixer was released. I just wanted to chime in and explain some of reasons why TE's stuff costs more than what you might think you could make yourself.)
So, who is this for? People using iPads and iPhones that need the smallest possible mixer? The audio interface aspect is available in many other mixers already. So, that's not a unique feature.
can someone explain to me why their gear is so expensive? i have a lot of synths and have been collecting them for a long time, and I have no idea why the OP1 should cost 1000 dollars. it really just seems like a toy, do professionals actually use them?
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Right at the very beginning: > ultra-portable pro-mixer and audio interface. TX–6 is our ultra-portable, battery-powered mixer and multi-channel audio interface. comparable to larger units, but with even more tech packed into one sturdy little machine. I’d say that’s pretty damn clear what it is and that it’s “ultra portable.” What were you expecting them to add?
Lots of people don’t know what a mixer or audio interface is.
I absolutely love their design language. I'll never have a need to own any of their products but I wish I could buy the gadgets I do need/want with this kind of design/style.
For everyone drooling over the design of this, here’s a fun little form-over-function tidbit from the fine print: > high quality, slimline cables custom-made for TX–6. the narrow profile allows you to use all 6 channels at once and makes for an easy pack down. Sounds like the input jacks are so close together not every 3.5mm audio cable will work with it. Like a phone without a headphone jack - bring a special adapto…
Taking a look at a pic of the back the jacks look to be about 3mm apart, which seems fine for most 3.5mm straight jack cables. What I'm betting is that most people don't have 6 3.5mm to 3.5mm cables, given that most boards and interfaces take 1/4"
I saw "from $199" and thought this looked like an incredible deal. Then realized it was just how the font was rendered, and it was actually "$1199". I'm not quite sure who the market for this is - that is crazy.
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It's almost disgustingly expensive for what it is.
The way people are going on about the price I was expecting it to be a lot higher. It's about the price of a video card.