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Teenage Engineering OP–XY

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$2300 USD....

Buy a Macbook Air, Logic Pro and a Mini Lab 3 and have hundreds left over. All while enjoying an infinitely more powerful stack.

Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but Teenage Engineering has had a series of very low quality, fault-prone gimmick devices that quickly end up forgotten in drawers. Hard to take this seriously.

You're not the target market. You're not cool.

This applies to a lot of things in my life as I get older, it’s nice.

from the guys who brought you a $1000USD bluetooth speaker, the $240 leather sack, and the always popular $50 tshirt comes, "we dont understand how western inflation works in the context of consumer confidence as it applies to discretionary spending as a function of income"

To be fair, I find the audio from my OD-11 considerably superior to my A9. Not as good as my Ferguson Hill Jetstream however.

Good to know about OD-11. I like the OB-4 though it's not good value for the sound alone. Are you running OD-11 in multi channel mode? And are you flexing a $130k+ system?

x2 in stereo via optical, but a single 11 knocks an A4 out of the water, they're not kidding when they say carlsson sound, it is just that - OB-4 sounds fine but fell over and broke the dumb spinny volume knob thing 3rd day, back to TE and huge wait... never mind they're literally NOT FIXING KO-2s right now, refunds only, fuckin' TE.

Pricing your product is artistic expression, you philistine

TX-6 is not a very low quality gimmick

Yeah but then you have a laptop not a toy. Whole point of this is it's more fun and satisfying than using Logic. It's a lot less about the sound it makes than you think.

Classic 2024 company. Started out with a few genuinely cool products and a quirky, fun attitude. Got popular, decided to exploit that good will and now everything they do seems greedy and inauthentic (regardless of whether any specific product is or not). Maybe this is a great product? But after the OP Field pricing shenanigans and OP-Z quality issues... hard to give them a second chance.

Seems like a fun device, somewhere between the OP1 and the Z. Decent reviews (Cuckoo and rando): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvo-MYh4vdA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHImk9MeqZM

> liebe aüf den ersten blick.

"aüf" is not a thing, should be "auf"

Shoddy quality even in their prose.

Feels deliberate, just like ‘das sequencer’

Yeah, except that the rest seems pretty much correct. It's hard to know which one it is :)

Is this built for using live on stage? Apart from that and mostly including it, it looks like a masochists dream.

Makes me appreciate what a good job Akai did with the early MCP.

Looks like a Sinclair QL. Which is not a bad thing.

But the faux-German is cringe. Weird flex, too, considering that Germany itself is a huge market for these kinds of instruments.

Teenage Engineering is based out of Sweden.

Yes, I know. And?

I want TE to make a keyboard so bad!

Well, the Altar keyboard has that TE vibe, I don't know if you've seen it. https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/ Its also similar in how expensive it is :D

"das sequenzer" ... shouldn't it be "der"?

I think they took some liberties to make it seem "more German". See also the umlaut in "liebe aüf den ersten blick".

probably a riff on "das Auto" (Volkswagen ad)

das is what non-german people think it's what should be, and that makes it the correct one. simulacrum/simulacra, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, etc

I remember attending a German language course in Berlin (25 years ago) with some other international students and this american kid who was railing against using die and der for objects that clearly had no gender: "what do you say?? die snowboard? der snowboard???" (it's das XD)

Thank you insufferable rich people buying synths without an ounce of musical talent

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