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Teenage Engineering is fast becoming the official brand of vain idiots with too much money and too little common sense.

I mean $1600 USD for a few bits of aluminum and a piece of plywood?! This thing would be overpriced relative to manufacturing costs if it cost $160, yet Teenage Engineering have slapped an entire extra digit onto the end of the price.

TE literally made ONE good product over a decade ago (The original OP-1) and have just been milking every last ounce of goodwill from the market since then with their overpriced, overhyped toys and "Designs."

I'll also never forgive them for jacking up the price of the original OP-1 well into it's lifecycle (When by all rights manufacturing costs have gone down and it should be CHEAPER) just because the used market was hot. Just sleazy, greedy, pompous pricks.

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Right up there with Buster and Punch. Have you ever wanted a $115 GFCI power outlet? Or $229 closet door handles (each, not the pair)? Or $400 door handles? Or $8,000 whisky cabinets?

I really like Justin Tse's YouTube videos, but when I watched him as a 20 year old buying an apartment and fitting it out with every single one of their accessories including the $14,000 whisky cabinet "even though I don't drink", it screamed "this is all sponsored", or "I have a trust fund".

Which isn't to sound (too) petty. But they were the same (B+P), made a couple of cool things, and then now are just milking the market for "how much you got?" home decorations (like $190 scented candles)...

Where is a better value? I’m not in the industry, but When I’ve looked, it seems like there’s an unserved gap between the really high end stuff and the Home Depot stuff

> TE literally made ONE good product over a decade ago

Sure, if you ignore the OP-Z, pocket operators, TX-6, OB-4, and probably some other stuff I am forgetting.

No, OP was correct. Although the pocket operators are good at their price points.

OP-Z - a downgraded version of the OP-1 that assumed its price point

TX-6 - a $700 mixer that is too small for human fingers…

OB-4 - A $700 bluetooth speaker with a loop pedal in it for some reason

OP-Z and OP–1 are completely different use cases, in fact in many ways the OP-Z is more powerful that the OP-1. The video aspects of the OP-z coupled with the way it's put together from a mixing perspective make it perfect for live multimedia shows. The OP-1 is an amazing deck for making and producing full tracks. They're different tools.

Per the sibling comment, the OP-Z's sequencer workflow is nothing like the OP-1's tape. It's literally comparing a multitrack MIDI sequencer to a 4-track audio tape recorder.

Cool. Let me know when the undo feature lands, that'll be worth the $1300

I like the idea of the Computer-1[1] too, even if it's kind of overpriced.

1: https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1

https://play.date ?

Note that they co-made that. Afaik the idea is mostly from panic, though iirc teenage engineering thought up the crank.

What's next? Luxury handbags that cost more than my $1 canvas tote bag?

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