When did you get your OP-1?

OP-1
#81


That is not the OP-1 serial number @Montaberne, please check again.

Oops… Let me try again :

Purchased from Massdrop in 06/2015
TE002-017697

#82

Thanks @SFKeydel and @Montaberne, first post updated.

#83
Thanks @cloudburst and @wolfegjon. It seems there are over 18K OP-1 produced now!

Wow, the serial #'s more illuminating than expected.


I was gonna ask if anyone could contextualize this with sales numbers of other synths. With a quick google I found that the the OP-1 has sold more than some well known, mostly vintage, synths, like the Mini Moog.

Source: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/6641829-post11.html
#84

TE002-016409 b-stock from dv247.com 08/2015

#85

TE002-01774


Purchased from Massdrop July 2015
#86

Sorry correction: TE002-017704

#87

@khernoe Thanks!

#88

TE002-013779
Online reseller, purchased 12/2014

#89

TE002-016569*

I’m the third owner, traded with the 2nd owner in Feb 2016, who bought it used (but only once, so basically new) on Reverb in June 2015.


#90

Getting one of the new models soon from TE, will post when I get it :slight_smile: I’ve been waiting years for one.

#91

TE002 - 018859


#92

TE002-018868 ** from reseller (thomann.de) as b-stock/used item in June 2015.

No problems with scratchy screen, battery life, I/O board etc. (it had 1 hot pixel, but I contacted thomann and they send my OP1 to TE for a free fix). Color me lucky :wink:

#93

Today! New convert - 03/04/2016. SN# TE002-019789. Bought new at Sweetwater Sound Retail (Fort Wayne, IN)

#94
Today! New convert -

Welcome!

#95

Thanks @AdamJay


#96

I updated the first post with the latest serials provided.


I just noticed something curious here:

02/2013 -> 0054xx ** (mic)
03/2013 -> 0105xx ** (usb/bld)

It looks like the serials jumped to 10000 around that date. Maybe a hardware revision? Anyway, it could suggest that the total number of OP-1 units produced so far is around 15000, and not 20000.
#97

Even 15.000 x 900 bucks is a lot of Lambourghinis !

#98

Hard to say what they’re getting per unit when not sold directly.

Distributors and retailers mark up a wholesale price a couple times before it arrives to us at $849.

Maybe $400-500 per unit?

so $7.5Mil over 5 years… take out labor costs, parts, insurance, rents, licensing, taxes, travel expenses, interest on debt/capital …

#99

@AdamJay You also have to remember they make these themselves, not in a factory. So this alone signifies why they need so much profit. If they sold it cheaper we may not have any more OP-1’s, much less a Teenage Engineering. Or if they were to make them from factories, I doubt the OP-1 would have such an amazing feel.

#100

TE002AS001A - Pretty sure I got a 2nd batch. It was 2011