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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by flats »

kamranjon wrote: post #13
tpmx wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yeah, agreed that this I s an insane price point given that (unless I’m missing something) there’s only one preamp and it only works for an inline headphone mic.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

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.

FX send narrows it down, I think the Mackie ProFX6v3 and the Behringer Flow 8 should do the trick if you want small & cheap. Otherwise the Yamaha AG03/AG06 are decent too.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by duped »

What bothers me is that I would absolutely buy this if it was bigger and had 1/4" balanced or stereo TRRS inputs, I actually have a variety of input sources in my home office that gets dual use for work, gaming, and music. But to use this I would need to go XLR to 3.5mm (and no phantom power?) for my voice and amp mics, main out to a Y split 1/4 TRS for speakers, and 1/4" to 3.5mm for a synth. So my desk would be littered with annoying adaptors just to slim down the inputs to fit in those teeny jacks.

A built in channel strip that I can keep setup for my mic (gate, compressor, EQ), plus a metronome for practicing, easy connectivity to my tablet to record myself a bit? Absolutely worth it.

The synth part is a little dumb, but it's TE.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by sanderjd »

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.

Whatever all this stuff is does look good, but the website doesn't do a good job of explaining what it is, IMO. I know this is because I'm not their target market, but maybe they'd bring me into that market if they did a bit of explaining somewhere on the site of why I might be interested in their gear?

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by sanderjd »

incanus77 wrote: post #48

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.

Don't people do that all the time and sometimes fail and sometimes succeed? Isn't this why we have competitive products and competing price points for most things?

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

#66

Post by wyldfire »

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/

Never heard of this before now but it looks really fun. Somehow I can't help thinking that just a dash of color might have made it more interesting. But it seems like it keeps things simple. $180 seems really steep for this but they have some kind of hipster edge here. I'm not even completely turned off for $180 for this lo-fi unit.

Since it's called 'playdate' and since it looks kinda retro -- a cable to play head-to-head games like the original Nintendo GameBoy did would be pretty cool.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by stu2b50 »

sanderjd wrote: post #64
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.

Whatever all this stuff is does look good, but the website doesn't do a good job of explaining what it is, IMO. I know this is because I'm not their target market, but maybe they'd bring me into that market if they did a bit of explaining somewhere on the site of why I might be interested in their gear?

That's wouldn't really be possible. You'd have to have audio equipment to be interested in an audio interface. Trying to sell outside that market doesn't really make sense.

It would be like trying to convince someone without a camera to buy your camera lens.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by nimbius »

my biggest axe to grind with this company is the outrageous pricetag for everything they sell.

With $100 bags, $700 mini boom boxes, and $15 patches You may as well call it Affluent Engineering.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

#69

Post by ruined »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #62
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.

FX send narrows it down, I think the Mackie ProFX6v3 and the Behringer Flow 8 should do the trick if you want small & cheap. Otherwise the Yamaha AG03/AG06 are decent too.

thanks

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by earthboundkid »

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.

You can get their headset for cheap! That's what I did. And also the Playdate, although it's not cheap.
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