ok hold up what could midi bluetooth be used for? the synth engine hidden in this weirdo box?
Bluetooth audio has too much latency for live playback of note input in real-time from something like OP-Z, so the only thing I can think is that you’d be able to use midi over bluetooth to control the looping system.
it gets in line with the new Bluetooth standard which should enable „zero“ latency Audio 
I agree that it isn’t a big jump to assume that is the plan (and it should at least be possible), but that should be a really fundamental part of the description and it doesn’t actually say that anywhere. I hope it is there, but it really only says “Audio functionality with OP-Z coming in the future” That doesn’t say two-way functionality, or that the speaker can do anything but receive. There is also nothing like “Record radio with the disk features and save it/broadcast it to your phone”, and none of the review sites have mentioned it either. I haven’t seen anyone clarify this or respond to my question on email/Instagram, and it seems like information that they would want to advertise to anyone buying it.
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EDIT: https://teenage.engineering/guides/ob-4 Nothing here mentions anything about being able to export saved tape loops or send live audio out anywhere but the speakers.
“every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. the first part is called the pledge, the magician shows you something ordinary. the second act is called the turn, the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something spectacular.”
I hope this is only the pledge
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I could have bought one. I have almost everything else TE has produced, OD11s included. I just couldn’t imagine why and where I would use a really heavy radio/‘cassette’ player. I haven’t listened to fm radio in twenty years, I don’t have a car, and it’s not really packable at 2kg for bikepacking or even walking about for that matter. As someone mentioned earlier it’s a bit like a Nagra (but designed by Braun) and people don’t walk around with those either.
If anyone does still want one btw, ‘Pancho and Lefty’ an expensive Swedish clothing store had some yesterday evening and I imagine this is the market for TE, wealthy Swedes with cabins in the woods that they drive to in the Range Rover, whilst listening to reverbed Buddhist chants!
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72 hrs = 3 days
A week = 7 days
8 hours = 1/3 day
40 hours < 2 days
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I definitely agree matey as the majority own op1 & opz.
Radio lab - £400 expansion pack will likely be the case 
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Yeah, @darenager sums it best there:
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The thing that strikes me as most bizarre is that there is no mention of DAB radio - just FM. In the UK FM radio is hardly even a thing anymore. It’s still available but most people listen to (and most stations are broadcast on) DAB.
If I was in the market for a new high-end radio I wouldn’t touch one that was FM only. Or am I missing something?
The digital radio never became a thing in Finland. Mebbe it’s just the UK?
That’s my hunch. If I were selling to a worldwide market, I’m not sure DAB is what I’d put in there. I know it’s big in the UK and parts of Europe, but not the US or most of North & South America. I don’t know about Asia, though.
I only wish I had that kind of disposable income, so I could find something more interesting to spend it on. This would have been so my thing when I was younger. Now? Nope. It’s too impractical at the house when my Bose SoundLink does just fine, and it’s way to expensive for me to justify buying it and keeping it in our camper van for when we go out and about on the weekends.
I’ll just leave this here;
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why no headphone jack?
and has anyone seen a photo of what is looks like on the non-speaker side?
and has anyone seen a photo of what is looks like on the non-speaker side?
Good point! I assume there isn’t much to see …
not much magic going on back there:( Roll on the OP-Z Radio Module!
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Exactly my thoughts!