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.
So, Apple!
TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#72For 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.
lol
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#73am I missing something, or is that a giant paddle power switch that can/will be accidentally pushed downward to off while working?
edit: nope, that's exactly what that is. $1,200 for a mixer you can't use live without duct taping it, I guess. https://teenage.engineering/guides/tx-6#power-on
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I think you might be underestimating the size of the market for audio interfaces and mixers - but that’s just a feeling mostly based on how many of them are on craigslist at any given moment in my city.
But either way you can’t deny they’re choosing to go high end. They could have scaled down the software features of this by 10-20%, put it in a less “jony ive” case and sold it for $300-600 - but then they would’ve had more competition.
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#75Once, 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.
Not really a valid argument. Plenty of similar products out there with more competitive prices. "Make this complex product yourself" is the equivalent argument as "if you don't like something with your country just leave." People can complain that something is expensive.
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#76I 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?
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?
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#77Once, 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.
That’s how Anker got started I believe.
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#78Looks a bit like their cancelled take on Kanye West's stem player ( https://imgur.com/a/ECehY1T ), especially those faders on the front.
Definitely the design language but doesn't seem to carry over any of the functionality, just seems like a standard mixer.
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#79I'm just happy that there are people who can work for Teenage Engineering building cool things like this. I own a pocket operator and love seeing the bare board and imagining how fun it must have been to build and design it.
Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
#80That looks like it was made by Braun. Gorgeous but very pricey.