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TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by yurivish » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
teenage.engineering

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#2

Post by drcongo » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

Stupidly expensive and I have absolutely no need for it, but just look how beautiful it is.

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Post by rpmisms » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

Halo hardware, absolutely, but their design sense is utterly phenomenal. What a gorgeous piece of kit.

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Post by rileyphone » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:00 PM UTC

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/

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Post by tinco » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:02 PM UTC

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's anything really special in there? Not hating if there isn't, the product is probably worth it to many people regardless, just wondering.

edit: just to clear the easiest explanation, since it's even more niche than the OP-1 it needs that much more margin? If it sells 1/10th the quantity it needs 10x the margin maybe.

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Post by zachruss92 » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

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.

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Post by tpmx » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:05 PM UTC

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.

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Post by crate_barre » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:06 PM UTC

rpmisms wrote: post #3

Halo hardware, absolutely, but their design sense is utterly phenomenal. What a gorgeous piece of kit.

Real life Winamp skin. I want one just because of how it looks.

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Post by tpmx » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #2

Stupidly expensive and I have absolutely no need for it, but just look how beautiful it is.

It's almost disgustingly expensive for what it is.

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Post by tpmx » Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

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'…

It's the mechanics that's expensive. The casing, the beautiful metal knurled knobs, all of the various parts made at very high quality in relatively low numbers.