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£599. Nope.

• rvz 6y ago
  Quality engineering. But for the average user, it's expensive for a radio.
  • whywhywhywhy 6y ago
    TE's quality is hit and miss if you talk to people who have used their devices a lot. You're mostly just paying for the unique features, smaller production runs and look of the device. I own an OP-Z and luckily haven't had any issues but the forums are full of people who's units are bent or have the dials pop out.
• andybak 6y ago
  Yeah I'm with you but I can totally understand people that do. Unlike £250 bluetooth ear buds. That I'll never understand
• gambiting 6y ago
  I was about to say, at that price it's taking the piss a little bit. No matter how good and clever the engineering is, it's just too expensive.
  • bondarchuk 6y ago
    "JBL Boombox 2" is going for about 400 euros right now and as far as I can tell JBL bluetooth speakers are hugely popular to the point of almost becoming a genericized word for bluetooth speakers. This is just 1.5x the price for something that at least looks much better. I'm not getting either but it doesn't seem outrageous.
• tweetle_beetle 6y ago
  At least it's made in Europe, unlike the OP-1 which they quietly moved to Chinese production after increasing the price...
  • InitialLastName 6y ago
    Build first locally, and then transition to China is a pretty natural pattern, especially for a smallish design firm... you can get the design and production process tightly controlled in a situation where you can easily visit the manufacturing facility, then move it to somewhere that can handle your scale economically. There's a dual marketing benefit too, as when the initial reviews are coming out you get into peoples' heads as "made in EU" and then that brainworm never resets when you move production, and you also get to gauge your demand without the time+money input of ramping up production on another continent.