Luxury products cannot always be called a rip-off. They just target a certain audience with different values and less sensitivity to price. Also, the people who

Luxury products cannot always be called a rip-off. They just target a certain audience with different values and less sensitivity to price. Also, the people who create music would be more enthusiastic about the equipment than people who buy purely consumer electronics. So, I'd expect they'd know the options and simply prefer the deal Teenage Engineering offers. In the modern audio landscape I'd rather pick Sonos as an example of a rip-off. High price, closed ecosystem, and data collection through the cloud services.