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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by duped »

kennywinker wrote: post #27
bjt2n3904 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Small run production with no expense spared of a designer product for niche applications. Expensive expensive expensive! That case looks like it was milled!

The niche application part is a little bit made up by them. Small mixers and audio interfaces are a HUGE market, and a saturated market. By going high end (by milling a case, for example) they shrink their market, but also shrink their competition. The number of portable mixers / audio interfaces / synthesizers (it’s a synth too???) with super fancy cases… they might be the only one? The keith mcmillian k-mix is the…

Prosumer audio gadgets are a relatively small market, audio interfaces are a slice of that. Audio interfaces that function as mixers are even smaller.

There's been a boon with stream decks the last few years, but the only part of that market that's saturated is the low end. There really are not that many high quality mixers and audio interfaces out there, and they are not really in a small form factor like this.

Not to mention the codec shortage. Making a digital audio board right now sucks.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by peterangular »

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

Well that's the first time I've ever seen a 1:1 EIZO used in _anything_ marketing related.

That monitor used in their marketing photo is the EV2730Q and it's an absolute beast if you're looking for a balance between horizontal/vertical aspect ratios. Obviously not fantastic for gaming (minus Factorio), but for programming + shell work it's outstanding.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by kennywinker »

postexitus wrote: post #42
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.

Did you just “You’re holding it wrong” me? :)

They could have brilliantly designed their way out of that by making the whole thing ~1.5cm wider (3mm extra five times).

A zoom h6 is a well designed portable battery powered mixer / audio interface with 4 easily accessible inputs and two that might need an adaptor depending on your cabling. It also comes with two high quality microphones, and records without being tethered to another device. For $409

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by azornathogron »

postexitus wrote: post #42
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.

3 channels for the price of 6 is still a terrible deal.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by dmd »

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.

I don't need to own my OP-1, but I'm glad I do. It makes me happy every time I look at it.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by [deleted] »

kmeisthax wrote: post #30

Like most Teenage Engineering products, it's an absolutely amazing-looking, well-engineered product with a ton of functionality that does a thing I don't actually need for far more money than I can justify spending on it.

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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by ruined »

kamranjon wrote: post #47
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...

i've got an h4n, i played with it yesterday, but i am looking for something with faders and an auxiliary effects loop to mix synths for dawless jamming

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by srik »

zachruss92 wrote: post #6
rileyphone wrote: post #4

Love Teenage Engineering, though I've never been able to justify buying something from them (especially not this!). Though I am looking forward to the Playdate [0], which they designed. [0] https://play.date/

I totally didn’t realize Teenage Engineering made the Playdate. I’m even more exited for it now. Early reviews say it’s quite fun.

Me neither, but it makes total sense now.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by WillPostForFood »

zachruss92 wrote: post #6
rileyphone wrote: post #4

Love Teenage Engineering, though I've never been able to justify buying something from them (especially not this!). Though I am looking forward to the Playdate [0], which they designed. [0] https://play.date/

I totally didn’t realize Teenage Engineering made the Playdate. I’m even more exited for it now. Early reviews say it’s quite fun.

Teenage Engineering designed the hardware for Panic Inc (the Mac software devs in Portland). Panic is the company actually making/selling it.
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