Set your own price for a Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field. Why? “Why not?”Teenage Engineering is setting its sights on making “[the] year 2025 even more flipped out”, starting with a ‘Set your own price’ for its coveted OP-1 Field synth, sampler and drum machine. Why? “Why not?”, says the brand — or, more specifically, because it’s running “a delicate experiment.”
As of today, the homepage of Teenage Engineering’s website is dedicated to this wacky OP-1 Field experiment. An interactive slider lets you set a price between  $1,399 and $9,999. Sadly for some, this slider doesn’t reach down to $99.
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Once you set your price (presumably $1,399), you can check out on the TE store. Except, you can’t right now — unfortunately, it looks like the Swedish brand is fresh out of stock of its sought-after synth. You can, at least, sign up for an alert for when it’s back in stock, and it appears TE will be running this experiment for the rest of June.
Judging by the new webpage, the brand will be running similar ‘experiments’ throughout the rest of 2025. “new flipped out ’25 offers will be presented during the rest of the year…(or until the world is a little bit more stable),” adds some copy by TE.
Why is the beloved company doing all of this, anyway?
“This is a delicate experiment,” says Teenage Engineering, “and a question. It’s about why, how, and why not? It’s for us to understand the market, for us to figure out how you think, how you act. And if it’s possible to really please you 100%. This is also a reflection of the world and the time we live in. Let’s try new things! Good things. Try crazy ideas – like what would happen if people voted with their wallets? What if it was up to you? Well now it is.”
A screengrab of Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field experiment
OK — so, let’s get one thing straight. This is a sale, right? But Teenage Engineering is disguising it as a “delicate experiment”? Well, hey, we’ll take it — at least you can save $600 off the original price. The real question we have is, ‘Which cashed-up thrill-seeker will crank this slider up to 11 and drop $9,999 for some clout?’ We’d like a word, if that’s you.
If the price is still a little steep for you, we’ll gladly recommend any of TE’s Pocket Operators, which come in at under $100. You might also be the right market for the retro-future EP-133 K.O.II, which you can pick up for a cool £269.
Pick your own price at teenage.engineering
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