can't wait to get my teenage engineering field desk

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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
  • Taking a look at the latest product from Teenage Engineering - the modular field desk. Too expensive? Hardly. It's the studio furniture we've all been waiting for.
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  • @MikeStavola
    @MikeStavola Рік тому +7

    My work uses custom made workstations using 1515 80/20 aluminum extrusion, and a 1.2mx2.4m work top (a thick Formica coated plywood with edge molding), and a .5mx2.4m shelf suspended 45cm above the work surface, and a standard equipment rack to one side. This workstation is fully modular and can be combined with other pieces to allow for shelving, monitor/keyboard mounts, hardware, and other office needs, including privacy screens, lighting, storage, and full cubicles and enclosures with sliding doors.
    The base workbench weighs about 100-150KG, and cost approximately $750US to manufacture, including labor. It has approximately ten times the raw material of this desk.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      Right?! The number of alternatives that are far more practically useful in a premium price range is wild.

  • @andycurrie8171
    @andycurrie8171 Рік тому +16

    When I seen this , Rob Gretton chasing Tony Wilson around in 24 hour party people shouting “ 30 grand for a fookin table ! “ came into my head

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +5

      Oh man I need to re-watch that.

    • @sodiumlights
      @sodiumlights Рік тому

      🤣I had the exact same thought yesterday!! Just need the Mondays making a crack den outta one. (Viva Rob Gretton!)

  • @valkloki
    @valkloki Рік тому +4

    Maybe it's their take on A Momentary Lapse of Reason? Not sure who is having the lapse here

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +5

      It's so bizarre. It's like a parody of themselves. It must be some kind of performance art piece at this stage.

    • @sodiumlights
      @sodiumlights Рік тому +1

      and only Pink Floyd could afford to buy one.

  • @dualtrx
    @dualtrx Рік тому +5

    And i said that OP1 Field was overpriced... But this, this.. is a thing of passion and love. Only 1700£.

  • @guysmiley7289
    @guysmiley7289 Рік тому +11

    They've made a modular baby changing table. Hurray.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +5

      The baby costs extra

    • @valkloki
      @valkloki Рік тому +1

      In a couple years after interest in the initial baby falls off, they'll release an even better baby which will inevitably cost more

    • @guysmiley7289
      @guysmiley7289 Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod Yet, still cheaper than the desk.

    • @guysmiley7289
      @guysmiley7289 Рік тому

      @@valkloki Of course it will cost more! That baby will be a teenage person. That baby may want to be an engineer when they grow up.

    • @sacredgeometry
      @sacredgeometry Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod Nah the baby comes free with the table. It's just self assembly.

  • @dubbynelson
    @dubbynelson Рік тому +65

    we spend so much time figuring out what they're on about that we never give ourselves time to ask what they're *on.*

  • @CrescentRollCarl
    @CrescentRollCarl Рік тому +2

    A few years from now they'll release a new version with "100 new features" and charge an extra k

  • @mattkaz9604
    @mattkaz9604 Рік тому +4

    It looks like a decent desk. If it was 1/20th of the price I'd totally get some.

  • @elfakyn
    @elfakyn Рік тому +6

    I have a completely modular workspace in my apartment consisting of 5 cheapo desks off amazon that are roughly the same height when put next to each other. they are sturdier and more minimalistic than the TE shite and they're less than 100 bucks each.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +4

      Blasphemy! You'll be jealous when my Field Desk arrives.

  • @iantanner7579
    @iantanner7579 Рік тому +6

    So what is the weight of an OP-1 Field?
    Coz I don't think this desk is designed that cope with that kind of load.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I find it interesting that both have Field in the name.

  • @geolectric_universe
    @geolectric_universe Рік тому +3

    I already ordered 3 of them. Though, to be fair, I canceled one of the orders so I could buy more crack cocaine.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Thing is you could write these off as a business expense, but probs not the crack.

    • @geolectric_universe
      @geolectric_universe Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod Oh I don't know...I bet I could if I started selling crack.
      "Crack IS my business!" lmao

  • @altArchitecture
    @altArchitecture Рік тому +1

    I absolutely died when you said “to see what the f*** they are on about” @0:39

  • @Koko161081
    @Koko161081 Рік тому +1

    It took me at least a day to realize that this was not some form of meme or synth-related joke on my feed...

  • @avrilcadabra
    @avrilcadabra Рік тому +4

    The close up of the aluminum looks judgement day worthy. I am just waiting to see which Synth youtuber reviews this. I am sticking with my Ikea desk

  • @Screenshot1015
    @Screenshot1015 Рік тому +2

    They gentrified the noise table

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Pretty impressive really.

    • @Screenshot1015
      @Screenshot1015 Рік тому +2

      Not to get into UA-cam guy controversy here but I can’t wait for Hainbach to do an hour long diatribe on how not only is it good and worth the money, it should be even more expensive.

  • @minimal3734
    @minimal3734 Рік тому +5

    Seeing the price I was expecting carbon composite and titanium. The intention of this desk must be to make the prices of their music gear appear reasonable.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      That isn't a completely ludicrous idea. The OP-1 Field seems tame in comparison.

  • @unhaunts
    @unhaunts Рік тому +2

    You didn't read that there will be touch enabled animations for each desk functionality? For raising the height there is a hamster running in a wheel. You can drag its legs back-and-forth and it will raise and lower the desk and whatever speed your fingers move at. There's a grizzly old sailor smoking a pipe. If you pull down on the pipe more smoke puffs out, he winks a little, and the actual color of the desk instantly transforms. Think of the time saved, the sweaty hours adjusting the desk height and selecting a color. This thing is a monument to fashion, technology, and really a tribute to humanity.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      This changes everything.

    • @unhaunts
      @unhaunts Рік тому +1

      I feel like they should at least offer a discount if you're willing to pay a lifetime monthly fee, or get a highly visible Teenage Engineering tattoo.

  • @Rilkir
    @Rilkir Рік тому +5

    A decade ago I was always kicking around the idea of grabbing a used OP-1, now TE annoys me so much that I wouldn't take a Field if it was free. Crazy how people talk shit about Behringer when TE exists.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Yeah. I've sold both my OP-1 and OP-Z, as at this point I'm pretty meh about all of it.

  • @OrangeDrinkMusic
    @OrangeDrinkMusic Рік тому +2

    lol I fell for the title and thumbnail

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Hey who says I never ordered one anyway...

    • @OrangeDrinkMusic
      @OrangeDrinkMusic Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod You can NOT wait to get your desk! Where's the lie???

  • @1wildrogue
    @1wildrogue Рік тому +4

    A friend of mine is a wood worker who can build you a desk for the same price from locally sourced wood that is customised to your needs and higher quality.

  • @sodiumlights
    @sodiumlights Рік тому

    I'd love to hear you do a take-down of the latest fad of terming everything 'iconic'. 'Game-changer' wound me up....and then came labelling everything 'underrated'...and now...ICONIC.

  • @RayDAider1
    @RayDAider1 Рік тому +5

    The team at TE needs a check up from the neck up. Not sure if I'll ever own anything they make...not even purchased second hand. I recently saw an OP-1 for $600 usd at a Music-Go-Round (second hand) store over here, and it was more money than I had on me but I'm sure I would not have bought it even at that price. However, it was gone when I went back a week later....

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I do like the OP-1... but not for the price. I've just sold mine and the OP-Z, so all I've got left are the Pocket Operators...

  • @CNTRRNDM
    @CNTRRNDM Рік тому +4

    Yeah! I always wanted to have...a...table? Especially a super expensive one😂

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      To be fair, tables are under-rated. It's the next big thing.

    • @CNTRRNDM
      @CNTRRNDM Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod you reckon? Also heard good things about chairs!

  • @ElectronicChateau
    @ElectronicChateau Рік тому +1

    It's just taking the piss charging prices like that, we used to have desks like that in school in the eighties and I guarentee they didn't cost anywhere close to £1600, more like £16. TE can go and do one.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      They are very similar to the industrial shelves you see in studios and garages all over... it's nuts.

  • @32shumble
    @32shumble Рік тому +2

    they're tapping into the dumb but rich market!

  • @nooooddy
    @nooooddy Рік тому +2

    Loved this video particularly when you laughed out loud at the actual shipping bit!
    I might try and make a version of this using a Wickes wallpapering trestle table and some old Meccano hot-glued to the sides. 50 quid total build max! 🎉

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      It is pretty wild. I get the idea of R+D costs for a system they would build out on as some kind of proof of concept, but it's so ridiculous.

  • @CatFish107
    @CatFish107 Рік тому +2

    I saved something like 80 percent off that, and have multiple levels of trays and a monitor mounted to the desk and it has an electrical adjustment for height. Just whatever standing adjustable desk and some clamp stands. Room for laptop, mouse, external keyboard, a couple racks of modular gear, microfreak, and a perch for my cat to look out the nearby window and enjoy his synths.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      but does it have the TE logo

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod it does, but that's a sticker that came with a pocket operator.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      @@CatFish107 Perfect

  • @dankeplace
    @dankeplace Рік тому +3

    I bought 3 of these, I have been troled that if I buy moar, it can make ma mosak sound gooder?
    Anyways, I am pretty happy because now I am gooder!!!

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      You need at least 4 to be success, soz.

    • @dankeplace
      @dankeplace Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod welp, I might go pro and get 5.
      5 to stay alive!!

    • @dankeplace
      @dankeplace Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod all jokes aside, I think TE think they're edgy and somehow a house brand name that everyone wants.
      Now to break it down, the Beat's branding was genius, but it was really poor value for money, so much so, they did a break down of what it cost to make including labor.
      $28 USD for a $199 product.
      They even went so far as to put weights in the headphones to make them appear to be made of quality material.
      So what's the end result? Apple paid billions to acquire nothing more than a successful marketing tool.
      Apple know all about it too.
      What is really funny is these tables will sell, and they probably only have to sell a thousand or so to cover all their costs then turn a profit, they are taking the piss though.

    • @dankeplace
      @dankeplace Рік тому

      I would say more likely, sell 100 and they've turned a handsome profit.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      @@dankeplace or ten!

  • @subiesojourner777
    @subiesojourner777 Рік тому +1

    Many years ago as a kid, my older brother had an Erector Set and he built a desk that looks very similar. I think that Erector Set costs my parents $8.95 in the 1960's. 😁

  • @trevfisher
    @trevfisher Рік тому

    Had to check the date the first time I saw these and the price and to my astonishment it wasn't April 1st.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I'm still not convinced that it isn't April.

  • @pup4301
    @pup4301 Рік тому

    They just gave us the entire blueprint for the desk. They are saying that it is open source without saying that it is open source. That is what I like about them. They are confident in there product and they are making them for fun.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      I'm not entirely sure they're really telling folks anything that they wouldn't be able to figure out by ordering a table and doing the measurements, to be fair. There's not a whole lot of protectible IP in there...

    • @pup4301
      @pup4301 Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod Right! They have assembly manuals for everything, measurements for everything and even tell what materials they used to make the products along with the use of off the shelf parts. I guess they know this and are going after the maker market.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      An interesting theory!

  • @LabRatWarfare
    @LabRatWarfare Рік тому +3

    Out of left Field!! I can't believe thing thing doesn't even come with a foldable Field chair!!! It has to be a mistake!! Where is the friggin Field chair man? Sold separately?! ... Standing there on my feet all day in a Field of rocks jamming out on top of my brand new Field desk with my OP-1 Field doesn't sound like a very good Field trip to me!! The bastards!!! 🤣🤣🐀

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Rofl LRW this had me in stitches. Pahahahha

  • @LowFlatRate
    @LowFlatRate Рік тому +12

    This is almost definitely intended for enterprise use. It's easy to picture an architectural firm or an advertising startup ordering a load of these for a sleek, streamlined office environment that projects success and sophistication. Because TE manufactures plenty of cool consumer electronics, it's easy to forget they're in the business of design.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +19

      Yeah, though if I was asked to invest in a startup that was prepared to sink multiples of 1600 quid into a single desk I'd be reconsidering their judgement.

    • @kps2420
      @kps2420 Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod i've been in a few startup conference rooms with $50,000+ of Herman Miller chairs, they're a good sight more than 1600 quid

    • @guysmiley7289
      @guysmiley7289 Рік тому +4

      @@kps2420 I'm sitting on one currently . it was more than half of what the desk cost, it looks better, it has a lifetime warranty, and I didn't have to fffffin build it. You just open the box and it is ready.

    • @cabe_bedlam
      @cabe_bedlam Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeoda perfect match for Herman Miller Aerons for the VC bottomless money-pit tech startup.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      @@cabe_bedlam I see more of a benefit to the chairs, given the liability risks around non-ergonomic office equipment. Desks though...

  • @boydw1
    @boydw1 Рік тому

    I think someone had a few too many rails off their desk (up their nose) when they thought this one up.

  • @mikevanderheiden
    @mikevanderheiden Рік тому

    But the KO snaps on the side of it! Don't know really but the thought is worth the price.

  • @awkwardtom
    @awkwardtom Рік тому +3

    Genuinely feel sorry for the folks that fall for the marketing BS and actually buy one! The “emperor’s new clothes” springs to mind…

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      It's bonkers. I'm still not truly convinced that it's actually a joke.

  • @GrootsieTheDog
    @GrootsieTheDog Рік тому

    What I’d like to know is why people from Great Britain and Ireland add a mysterious syllable in A-Lu-Mi-Num ...as in A-Lu-Mi-Nee(???)-Um

  • @draconianrhythms
    @draconianrhythms Рік тому

    Imho if you want a functional table, go to B&Q or IKEA. If you want a designer table (well, designer anything), then be prepared to pay out £££. I wouldn’t pay £100 for a t-shirt but many do.. I wish them well on this one, happy in the knowledge I will never own this, or for that matter any fancy table 😂

  • @pawnotdaw4559
    @pawnotdaw4559 Рік тому +1

    I love me a good bargain

  • @foldingthemap3823
    @foldingthemap3823 Рік тому

    just came upon this video and couldn’t help check. it is sold out. no capital letters.

  • @jonbontempi
    @jonbontempi Рік тому +1

    At least it's with free shipping. Hold on. Shipping extra.

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray Рік тому +1

      Delivery £95, obviously delivered by special EV/Hydrogen Hybrid truck, OR Delivered by Drone🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      The final slap in the face.

  • @michaeltough2449
    @michaeltough2449 Рік тому

    So basically a kit of extrusions and connectors manufactured from 70% recycled aluminium which happens to be the most prevalent metal found on the planet and some plastic coated plywood for £1700 to my door in the UK. And yes, the TE engineering Web blurb was utter BS, I tend to find a versatile horizontal surface ( desk ) allows for an infinite number of uses !

  • @CommodoreCrush
    @CommodoreCrush Рік тому

    I guarantee that an Ikea version is on its way.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I'm not sure I'd even buy an Ikea version.

    • @CommodoreCrush
      @CommodoreCrush Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod The all-time best all-around desk/worktable is Ikea's Jerker desk. That's not a typo, and I have three Jerkers in my studio/office.

  • @leftmono1016
    @leftmono1016 Рік тому

    I feel so cheap after watching this, my collection of synths/samplers currently rests upon a desk made from an old wardrobe door (Argos pine no less) with additional risers made from old shelves suppported on short sections of 2x4 Wickes construction timber (empty Volca boxes make great risers too).

  • @robinsutcliffe-video_art
    @robinsutcliffe-video_art Рік тому

    The Emperor's New Desk

  • @sodiumlights
    @sodiumlights Рік тому

    @7.15...genius.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Hahahaha thanks. Gotta take it where you can

  • @jeffryarchambeau5441
    @jeffryarchambeau5441 Рік тому

    It's time to table this subject.

  • @BrockMcLellan
    @BrockMcLellan Рік тому

    It makes me happy to think that humans are essentially identical, same height, same shoe size, same mass. This means that a one-size fits all Teenage Engineering field desk is going to be ideally suited for everyone. No need to check any ergonomic factors. I am concerned Stephen, that you are protesting the Teenage Engineering field desk on the basis of price. I encourage you to take the high moral ground, and refuse to buy one, because it violates your principles. With my 2% Mohawk ancestry, I am required to support any and all protests by indigenous people, including the Sami protests against Norsk Hydro (producers of the aluminum in the desk). Somewhere on Wikipedia, someone has written:"The disagreement led to a trial in Høyesterett [Supreme court], in which Fosen vind and the Norwegian state lost, on the basis of breaking human rights. Their continued refusal to dismantle or in any way honor the courts advices, has increased the tension between the sami people and the state of Norway. A year past the trial, the windmills are still standing." This wind farm is owned by Norsk Hydro, and is located about 40 km west of our house, but because of the various mountains in the way, it is about 85 km away by road, which takes almost 1.5 hours.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      I thought this comment was going to go an entirely different way at the start. Lol.

  • @GavinLyonsCreates
    @GavinLyonsCreates Рік тому

    I have a camping table that made of aluminium too, sorted!

    • @towerrunner4675
      @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

      Camping table was my first thought, too. Well, it's light and lasts forever, so probably a good investment.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Would be useful for the ol gigging as well, if it folded up, which it... err, well.

  • @budgetguitarist
    @budgetguitarist Рік тому

    This is really, really funny.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      I am only allowed to be funny once a year.

  • @DECIMA1
    @DECIMA1 Рік тому +4

    The greatest product ever made.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +3

      I should get two

    • @DECIMA1
      @DECIMA1 Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod I ordered 25 ua-cam.com/video/nx1Aau2nOcs/v-deo.html

  • @wiggesobk
    @wiggesobk Рік тому +1

    i've seen it yesterday. This is the best joke ever! Haha

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      It has to be a joke. Right!?

    • @wiggesobk
      @wiggesobk Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod they want to test the people how far they would go haha

  • @TheFlippertube
    @TheFlippertube Рік тому

    Two words: Veblen Good

  • @synthshoot1026
    @synthshoot1026 Рік тому +1

    If NASA did this, it would probably still be cheaper.

  • @karmaneh
    @karmaneh Рік тому

    Mate, you have to tell me where ye got yer jumper!

  • @7177YT
    @7177YT Рік тому +1

    Nah, this isn't hipster surrealism at work, it's economic cynicism.
    One of the fashionable geezers with tinted glasses in a corner office up top got someone more boring looking down in accounting to do the math. And after some light linear optimisation they're confident to ship enough units at this price to make even a small production run profitable. /:
    Btw: I learned about the oxford comma debate from a throwaway line dunking on te's copywriting in this video. Thx!

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Hahaha I'm glad I could open your eyes to the heated world of comma debate.

  • @Soul_Equaliser
    @Soul_Equaliser 2 місяці тому

    How many desks do they give us for $1599?

  • @makeperceive
    @makeperceive Рік тому +1

    I actually thought this was an April Fools style joke at first. Maybe Apple will buy TE at some point?

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I still think it must be!!

    • @rorz999
      @rorz999 Рік тому +1

      I hate Apple, really I do, but even they aren't as 'style over substance' as TE is

  • @Gameboygenius
    @Gameboygenius Рік тому +1

    Someone on Twitter asked the question whether you'd rather buy one of these desks or a budget trip to Japan. I don't think that's the right question to ask, though. The real question is, would you rather buy two of these desks or a first class trip to Japan where you're allowed to splurge a bit.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Honestly that is the question I used to always ask myself before buying anything. Would I rather spend cash on this new *thing*, or a trip abroad? I always picked the latter. Now I am old and can't travel anywhere anyway so I surround myself with pish.

    • @davido3109
      @davido3109 Рік тому

      I simple prefer to go to Japan...

  • @robertvangameren9735
    @robertvangameren9735 Рік тому

    I believe the product must have a catch to it. The price for a designy table is in that region for the bigger brands and they are big.
    I predict that the catch will be, once you ordered this they'll contact you and send you all kind of free accessories to give it a keyboard tray or all kind of extra's for speakers, modular synth/gear
    or.. it is a transformer
    or.. it has AI
    or..it is a walnut

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      The most logical answers for me are either:
      1. This is intended for specific firms that want to impress, and will order a few.
      2. This is a 'proof of concept' in relation to a modular system, and no real intention to sell.
      3. It's all just a marketing stunt.

  • @dillipphunbar7924
    @dillipphunbar7924 Рік тому

    I stopped at pocket operators...po20 has stopped working = ( , and the po12 just drains batteries(in standby). KO still kicking it tho...yay. I wonder if Cuckoo will get one of these desks?

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Oh man. I'm sorry to hear that. I wonder if there's a way to DC power them

  • @supercompooper
    @supercompooper Рік тому

    I bought a side board from Roche Bobois and it ended up being over $40k

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      This seems like a joke but I am too dumb to understand.

    • @supercompooper
      @supercompooper Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod I bought the Roche Bobois Xepherus (one of 50)

  • @allanroney
    @allanroney Рік тому

    I give it 3 months before we have the “Hairy White Scot reacts to Gospel !EMOTIONAL!” videos 😄

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Hey if that's what the people want that's what they are going to get dangit

  • @shifteleven
    @shifteleven Рік тому

    I. Can’t. Believe. It’s. Real.
    I though people were just memeing today.

  • @toslinked
    @toslinked Рік тому +1

    at this time they are just trolling us. making as much cash as possible before AI takes over the synth world within the next 3 years.

  • @rorz999
    @rorz999 Рік тому +1

    We've reached peak capitalism, boys

  • @CatFish107
    @CatFish107 Рік тому

    Watch for bespoke fasteners, and special tools to be able to turn them. Some kind of dodecahedral screw head.

  • @Hennesg
    @Hennesg Рік тому +1

    Crazy how you can create an overpriced brand off one decent product. The OP-Z is unnesecarilly weird to pilot and the Pocket Operators are more of like toys, which would cost 10x if TE released them today. OP-1 is all this brand has going for itself and it this point it should probably be replaced with a substitute.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      It's a shame because the OP1 was really interesting and innovative, but TE obviously don't care much about music gear at this point. It feels more about experimenting in a bunch of different product areas. That's great, and their prerogative, but the pricing is increasingly bizarre.

  • @stevesjob5072
    @stevesjob5072 Рік тому +1

    table

  • @n0tett
    @n0tett Рік тому

    the thing is, once they came out with the tx-6 and a bunch of trust fund kids bought it, making something like this becomes a no-brainer.

  • @dogstare
    @dogstare Рік тому +1

    Ffs kip of it..looks like the bargain bin in IKEA 🌝👀🕺🏻

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      That bin cost 3k!!

    • @dogstare
      @dogstare Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod 😂😂🕺🏻

    • @dogstare
      @dogstare Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod no modular connection on that bin? 👀🕺🏻

  • @YouWinTheAward
    @YouWinTheAward Рік тому

    look up the price of a laminated sheet of birch plywood (to be fair, baltic birch is at the high end of sheetgoods in terms of quality and price but there doesn't appear to be much labor performed on said sheetgoods) and the price of some small amount of perforated aluminum square tubing and it just doesn't seem to me like it would add up to more than like, 400 bucks after hardware and labor..the engineering might still be okay in terms of fitting hardware to get all this to fold together neatly but there is zero design. this is like a chef giving you head of lettuce and a bottle of dressing IMO. no modules they could ever release for this will change my mind

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Yeah. I get the idea of them using this as a proof of concept for design purposes if they create a 'system' that folks can build on, and charging a lot to offset R+D, with no real intention to sell them largely, but it just seems bizarre.

  • @NickBender
    @NickBender Рік тому

    Design an erector-set desk. Source some simple reusable components. Figure out what 50% markup is. THEN add a 0 to the price.

  • @stoatystoat174
    @stoatystoat174 Рік тому

    if you sell the most expensive thing in a given market, some hollow dafty may be compelled to own what others can not.
    correlating exclusivity with value. so selling less stuff to less people for more

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I think I might start charging 10k per video.

    • @stoatystoat174
      @stoatystoat174 Рік тому

      i'll take two, put one in my mylar safe :)

  • @steppedon
    @steppedon Рік тому

    Impersonating them? Why? You could get 2 Festool 9MFTs for the same price and 1000000000x the functionality with the 20mm dog hole ecosystem. And even without the dog holes (assuming you buy a $60 sheet of birch plywood and do a surface) the rails make it just as functional as this table. Don't get me wrong.....the Teenage Engineering table is a lot better looking...but thats about it.

  • @ichiban8558
    @ichiban8558 Рік тому

    There are some dark forces at work within this company.

  • @viennabonaparte
    @viennabonaparte Рік тому

    Whatever about the price, it doesn't look very sturdy. £95 for shipping feels unnecessary stingy.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Even Ikea's shipping via truck is 40 quid...

  • @seethruhead7119
    @seethruhead7119 Рік тому

    that's not an oxford comma

  • @DomDomPop
    @DomDomPop Рік тому

    Like the computer case, I think this is another “we built this for ourselves out of a need, and we’re willing to sell them to you too”. However, this is perhaps a bridge too far. It’s friggin plywood and recycled aluminum. It’s almost as much as an OP-1 field, it’s only a few hundred bucks more than an OG OP-1. It’s $500 more than a TX-6, and all it does is keep objects further off the ground than other objects, and you still need to pay separate shipping! I love these guys, I’ll defend any product they’ve made because they always get better over time, but this one is too much. Even for a company willing to burn money to look trendy, it’s just not a smart buy.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      It is so bizarre. They are clearly going for the 'design company' angle, but... why even sell this? Unless they don't expect to sell any. It's so odd.

  • @nlego5153
    @nlego5153 Рік тому

    They like to remind you how expensive their products are... Not sure it's really working with 3/4 of their clientele. I gave up on them a long time ago. when I saw the op field being much more expensive than the first release, I just lost interest as usually, a rehashed product with way less r&d cost less to produce than the first iteration. TE is greedy but are already loosing in the innovation dept... Good luck

  • @fischergreen4134
    @fischergreen4134 Рік тому

    I could buy my modular start up set up for that cash
    Pro tip
    Ikea do something like this for 60 quid

  • @synthshoot1026
    @synthshoot1026 Рік тому

    $1600 for 14Kgm of recycled aluminum. I thought "recycled" was supposed to make things cheaper.

  • @towerrunner4675
    @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

    OP-1 Field users needed a desk - makes sense (NOT 😛). Craziest company ever.

  • @noodldoodl1970
    @noodldoodl1970 Рік тому

    FUCKING HOW MUCH!?
    I envisage a time soon when it will cost upwards of five Euros just to utter the words "Teenage Engineering".
    And people will pay it.

  • @tupperwerewolf6004
    @tupperwerewolf6004 Рік тому

    Honest tae God man

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Hey, if it folds up maybe it'd be useful for our tour...

    • @tupperwerewolf6004
      @tupperwerewolf6004 Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod I'll sell you my fold up table for £1000?

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      @@tupperwerewolf6004 Will you ship it for free?

  • @urbannpa
    @urbannpa Рік тому

    $1930.00 American....I'll have what their smoking!.

    • @towerrunner4675
      @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

      Maybe we are actually all tripping here. I mean nobody said it's an audio company. So they can do everything, right?

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      The bonkers thing is that it's 1600USD, but 1600GBP here, so almost 2000USD. No attempt to harmonise pricing. Blegh

  • @sacredgeometry
    @sacredgeometry Рік тому

    Its teenage engineering ... their whole MO is make something vaugly stylish looking with practically no substance and charge exorbitant prices for it.

    • @sacredgeometry
      @sacredgeometry Рік тому

      8:17 Yep. They are fucking barmy!

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      I can't tell if it's genius or insanity.

    • @sacredgeometry
      @sacredgeometry Рік тому

      ​@@StephenMcLeod It really depends if anyone buys it.
      The idea is fine, the cost is outrageous and prohibitive.
      People can literally get a welder to make them custom desks out of square steel tubing for less.
      My office did it. They came in did 50 desks in a couple of days and left.
      It didnt cost them almost £100k.

  • @MathHammer
    @MathHammer Рік тому

    It seems like a hype generation thing. Formica-covered birch plywood is cheap.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Yeah. That is the only logical conclusion. Surely.

  • @jamesalderson6803
    @jamesalderson6803 Рік тому +3

    I told them they’d well and truly lost the plot with this one and they promptly blocked me on Instagram 👍

  • @prospektraks
    @prospektraks Рік тому +1

    This thing is a joke, but rest assured there will some fashionable UA-camrs that have to get it to match their silly little music box. Don't think I could ever buy anything from this company without feeling like the butt of a joke. People like to blow money though, so let the games begin.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      Are you trying to suggest that I'm not a fashionable UA-camr/!?!?!?!

    • @prospektraks
      @prospektraks Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod Just unfashionable enough for me

    • @towerrunner4675
      @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

      They make good products, it's just a cranky mix. The PO concept is ingenious. People are spending a lot of money for old MPCs to get 12 bit sound. TE sells 12 bit samplers for peanuts on POs.

  • @InkyDaCaT
    @InkyDaCaT Рік тому

    Are TE secrectly working for a world wide government and this is an IQ test?😂😂😂

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      If so, have we passed or failed!?

    • @InkyDaCaT
      @InkyDaCaT Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod 🤣ya bought one🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🙌

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      @@InkyDaCaT I bought three!!

    • @InkyDaCaT
      @InkyDaCaT Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod 🤣🤣🤣 Cabbages?? Glad you sold your studio for 3 tables lol ...hold oh no..... quite like ya music🤪

  • @GongMaster
    @GongMaster Рік тому +3

    I wonder who doesn't think the same about these rip-off desks. I also wonder who will buy such an ugly and shaky looking desk for such a price? In general their prices are a joke. Nothing they sell is worth the money. Anyway... I totally understand why you couldn't resist making this video and I wish you one million views on it.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +4

      It is pretty bizarre. It feels like performance art at this point. Or just some kind of publicity sook. In which case I've been had!

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 Рік тому

      The pocket operators are probably the token exception to that rule. But even those, I'm like no enclosure? Oh a rubber sleeve costs extra? Yeah TE.

  • @FuZZbaLLbee
    @FuZZbaLLbee Рік тому

    You can almost buy two sets of mac pro wheels for that price.

  • @randommcranderson5155
    @randommcranderson5155 Рік тому

    its not a desk its a table

  • @p.meyerhiggins3157
    @p.meyerhiggins3157 Рік тому

    I assumed it was a parody too...

    • @p.meyerhiggins3157
      @p.meyerhiggins3157 Рік тому

      p.s. 4:10 "Ah, see, they believe in the Oxford comma". I'd not have said anything were it not in the context of grammatical ribbing, but 'an Oxford comma' describes a comma before the last item in a list of three or more items (e.g. in "Item 1, Item 2, and Item 3" only the last one is the Oxford comma). Muphry's Law will ensure that I include a glaring error in my comment...

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +2

      Hah. I appreciate this pedantry!! I believe the term has expanded somewhat beyond its strict technical definition to include... more frequent commas, but now I am doubting my entire existence, so thanks.

  • @SuperGinkgo
    @SuperGinkgo Рік тому

    They have to be extracting a fluid... that is ludicrous, there must be an ulterior motive, gettin them "free ads" re wtf is this comments?? Dunno, I smell marketing taint.

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      Yeah, I think you are probably right - it must just be leaning into the madness at this stage.

    • @towerrunner4675
      @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod Yep, you just swallowed their bait. 😄

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      @@towerrunner4675 Hey, for 2k views I'll suck on anything

  • @praticle
    @praticle Рік тому

    If that section on the right is a modular rack they might have my interest
    Edit: guess i should have finished the video. The close-ups just look like a shite desk, that's insane lmao

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      It is weird, because the right section doesn't seem to be present in the actual product images below - just the promo one.

    • @praticle
      @praticle Рік тому +1

      @@StephenMcLeod I'll definitely be interested in seeing what this actually is!
      At this point it feels like either a shallow cash grab or some kind of *artistic statement*... And I'm not sure there is a huge difference between the two lol

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому +1

      @@praticle It does seem like it surely must be performance art.

  • @guillll
    @guillll Рік тому

    One word : 😂

  • @smallalien5860
    @smallalien5860 Рік тому

    Ouch

  • @pepejul
    @pepejul Рік тому

    I'm ashamed to own an OP-1. Time to sell. They've become midlife crisis engineering.

    • @towerrunner4675
      @towerrunner4675 Рік тому

      Midlife crisis, or teenage marketing is taking over. Comments here are so funny... 😂

    • @StephenMcLeod
      @StephenMcLeod  Рік тому

      It's pretty bizarre. Don't let them taint the OP-1 if you enjoy it though!

    • @pepejul
      @pepejul Рік тому

      @@StephenMcLeod you're absolutely right, I was already thinking of selling it because I don't use it and I want to finance other cool stuff.