Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition: a $1000 Box Set?!
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Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon 'Mind Games' Edition · Source: Teenage Engineering
Are you a die-hard fan of John Lennon’s 1973 album ‘Mind Games’? Today’s your lucky day! Meet the Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition.
Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition
[09 October 2024] On the heels of the EP-1320 Medieval comes the next head-scratcher from Teenage Engineering. Why? Why this? Are they playing ‘Mind Games’ with us?
The OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition, which is made to order and costs almost twice as much as the already ambitiously priced standard version, was created in collaboration with Sean Ono Lennon. It comes loaded with lots of exclusive content for fans of ‘Mind Games’. You get six sets of new mixes of the album: the Ultimate mixes, the Elemental mixes, the Elements mixes, the Evolution documentary, the raw studio mixes, and the outtakes. In addition to this, there are nine meditation mixes, a new metronome, and nine mantras. That’s a lot of ‘Mind Games’ for your listening pleasure. An exclusive box set in a Bluetooth speaker.
The rest is identical to the standard version. The OB-4 is an FM radio and Bluetooth speaker with a two-hour loop recording function that lets you rewind, time-stretch, and loop live radio. It runs for 72 hours on a single charge while listening to the radio and 40 hours while streaming over Bluetooth.
You can now order the Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition for $999 for delivery in February 2025.
The regular version of the OB-4 is available at Thomann*.
Teenage Engineering OB-4
[01 October 2020 / original post by Bob Malkowski] Teenage Engineering has just dropped the eye-catching, designer-styled OB-4 Magic Radio. Including unique and enigmatic features like time-stretching and ambient drone modes, the OB-4 is a portable radio like no other (and priced accordingly).
We heard rumours Teenage Engineering was planning a Bluetooth speaker earlier this month; now, the Magic Radio is here and it’s undoubtedly attention-grabbing! You can’t help but notice its eye-catching blend of future-retro design cues and unique features. It’s not the first time Teenage Engineering has branched out into audio products of course, but as ever with Teenage Engineering, expect the unexpected…
So what exactly is the OB-4 Magic Radio then? Well, at its core it’s a portable speaker system employing two 4” bass drivers and a pair of neodymium tweeters. The speaker drivers are driven by a 38W per channel power amplifier for a claimed 100db output. That’s all powered by an onboard Li-Po battery pack giving 72 hours of listening. Stylish, compact, yet powerful then!
The twist comes with Teenage Engineering’s integration of music playback facilities. You’ll find a line-in with Bluetooth streaming but it’s the FM radio playback which is really unique. The OB-4 has a two-hour loop record facility meaning you can rewind, time-stretch and loop live radio. The interface is also unique, being a powered spinning disk, like a tiny little turntable platter.
Disk Mode gets Crazy
Naturally, the craziness continues with the cryptically labelled “Disk” mode. Disk mode opens up “experimental features” such as an ambient drone mode, constructed from fragments of live radio. It’s all very, well, Teenage Engineering isn’t it? That too continues with the price, which is an eye-opening £599 for the matt black edition and £649 for the gloss-red edition.
If that’s not a sufficiently decadent price for a portable radio, then perhaps you should look at the matching leather carry bag. Made by the Bill Amberg Studio in London, the bespoke fitted leather carry bag costs an extraordinary £400 but on the plus side, they are all individually numbered!
The Teenage Engineering OB-4 is undoubtedly a premium-priced designer product offering little functionality over a smartphone and Bluetooth speaker. If you value unique and exclusive design above all else, however, then the OB-4 could be just what you’ve been waiting for!
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8 responses to “Teenage Engineering OB-4 John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ Edition: a $1000 Box Set?!”
Didn’t Sharper Image sell this in 1996? The OP-1 is great but the tin bendy toy modular and “Pocket Lint” toys are not good. This radio is not even a high school science project.
This has MORON written all over it;
I’m in 😁
This is perplexing. It feels like how AI doesn’t quite yet understand the creatures it’s trying to emulate. Except it’s not AI, so there’s no excuse.
I literally hate everything that Teenage Engineering have ever done.
Me too! 😺
Whilst TE’s products never particularly appealed to me, I generally thought their creations were clever if not overly so… until this.
Oh look. Reasonably priced PO KO2, maybe TE will now make stuff chea….no…nope…should have known bettter.
There are cars always labeled ‘hairdresser’ cars. Looks but no substance. Teenage Engineering live up to the same moniker. IKEA audio tools for, well, teenagers.
Want to LOOK cool, kids? Here you go. Get back to us when music becomes more important than aesthetics. Or just ask your Dad…
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