[doctorpangloss]

> $1400 price of entry as the synthesizer part of it

That's what's special about the "audio" category though. People's brains turn off. The price of an iPhone 14 Max!

But maybe it lets you tap into those latent feelings, "What would it have been like if I had gone to Eastman?"

> premium offerings like Teenage Engineering have

They have like 4/30 non-audio products. Look at them, and feel the magic evaporate. I can only speak to their SFF PC case, it is notoriously bad. Of course their stuff is beautiful, but so are Braun watches, Hay furniture, etc. I am not sure what these product categories tap into emotionally that phones haven't figured out how to yet.