Hoo boy, Teenage Engineering is starting to get on my nerves. This is a neat piece of kit, but the specs on it pretty much relegate it to the "toy" category of their lineup. You're telling me people are going to use this 48kHz dongle as a portable DAC? You probably have a better output on your laptop. Pretty absurd. This thing is pretty much a physical iPhone app... that costs more than an iPhone.

What really pisses me off about this is the price. Yes, please dogpile me about how "specialty hardware like this doesn't exist", that totally excuses this thing's existence! Seriously though, you can buy a brand new Octatrack for this price (actual professional equipment). But if this thing isn't competing with the OT, what's it's purpose? Being a digital multitrack recorder? Feeling nice in your pocket? Just being smaller than it's competitors no matter the expense?

The more I look at this thing, the more it annoys me. Teenage Engineering has always been about shipping hipster audio products, but even their older stuff was fairly passable. As much as I despise the OP-1 (even moreso after it's price hike), it had a lot of cool ideas in it. It was an obvious labor of love. I can't make heads or tails of this TX-6. I genuinely don't know who would buy this. In my head, I'm watching bourgeoisie college students walking around San Francisco to make lo-fi hip hop from found sounds with this thing. That's it. I can't see anyone using this in a professional setting. The OP-Z is an actual joke in the pro audio community, but I've still seen people use it at shows. The Pocket Operator is little more than a cheap toy, but people have fun sketching rhythms on them and even using the later models as super lo-fi samplers. This is... nothing. I truly and honestly don't understand it.