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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by tpmx »

ruined wrote: post #31
tpmx wrote: post #7

Can anyone identify the manufacturer of the beautiful knurled knobs? I only know about Kilo International in Orem, Utah ( http://www.kilointernational.com/ ) in this space. They don't look like any of their standard parts.

at that price, they could be custom. and looking at the geometry they could be made any place doing contract c&c.

Yeah, that's probably the case. I guess that's part of their DNA - do the design first, without really thinking about what's already out there. (But with a firm view on what's possible to custom make.)

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by postexitus »

kennywinker wrote: post #38

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…

yes, but you can use non-adjascent ports with standard 3.5mm audio cables - if you are that bothered, assume it's a 3 channel board with an option to upgrade to 6 if you buy the special cables.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

reaperducer wrote: post #15
rpmisms wrote: post #3

Halo 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: https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1

It looks interesting, but for me it hasn't got the same "want!" factor their other products have.

The T1 10L ITX case just launched, waiting for its arrival: https://formdworks.com/

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by sneak »

alias_neo wrote: post #23

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.

Me too. They are aping the Rams look as well as Ive/Apple did at their best, and now Apple doesn't do it any longer.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by P_I_Staker »

ruined wrote: post #22

if i wanted a simple mixer and usb audio interface with fx send and i didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on it, what's the range of alternatives i've spent under $150 on every individual item in my kit so far and it feels silly to blow past that on a mixer.

Mackie, Zoom, and Allen & Heath have mixers for 300ish buck, with 10ish inputs and are fairly featurefull.

I wouldn't count on the interface doing everything you dream of, even if it seems like it can based on specs. I owned the allen & heath, but traded it for the mackie one. It's okay, but there's a few annoyances.

Keep in mind that the FX send will also require a return (may sound obvious, but it's not to everyone), therefore, it will consume an input; they basically never have a dedicated return (it's pretty much pointless).

The FX send itself might not be really necessary, but I don't know enough to say for sure. I think they could just label it AUX, and that any auxiliary, or monitor send can work for FX... I'm not sure. I've used them before and the FX to monitor / sample.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by kamranjon »

ruined wrote: post #22

if i wanted a simple mixer and usb audio interface with fx send and i didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on it, what's the range of alternatives i've spent under $150 on every individual item in my kit so far and it feels silly to blow past that on a mixer.

Not sure this tics all your boxes but in a similar form factor the zoom H6 seems to be something people really like (the h4n was kinda huge when it first came out) - https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/handheld-recorders/handheld-recor...

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by ng55QPSK »

jelling wrote: post #20
tinco wrote: post #5

I 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.

Synths were always expensive. Polyphonic, analog Stuff was clearly in the 5-digit prices. Digitalisation brought this down to 4...5000€.
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