A mini version of this with ko mixer in-between
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Things Iād love to have from TE:
- MP3 player
- Desktop Audio Interface
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Probably not what you had in mind, but the tp-7 plays mp3ās and is an audio/midi interface. BT midi send/receive as well.
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CD player is a bizarre choice of new product in 2026.
Digital ādj deckā would make more sense, and would fit in EP series along with mixer and samplers, to scratch \ beat match \ play tunes etc
Considering the new-model CDJs removed the CD drive years ago, a DJ deck that actually has a slot-loading CD drive would be pretty smart. It would also need to load USBs (and probably work with rekordbox libraries, which is a solvable problem), but Iām excited to see whatever the hell it is.
If they make a mini disc i will buy it day 1, especially if it records.
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Any guesses as to what BC (or rather āBā, as C is likely CD) stands for in the cd world? Their acronyms usually point to a use case.
As far as I remember, I have always hated CDās: they are big, fragile (easily scratched and unusable thereafter), I have never found a durable player, and the cases always broke at one point, no matter how careful you were. I know they are coming back into the limelight, but so far, Iām deeply unmoved.
Minidiscs, in comparison, were better in every respect mentioned above. Plus they gave you easy access to digital recording. The conspiracist in me thinks thatās why the technology died: they were too durable for capitalism.
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I think they just failed BECAUSE OF capitalism. Sony kept most of it to themselves, put a bunch of restrictions in place and limited usage options (DRM-ish). That plus costly tech and resources resulted in poor adoption
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Pretty sure they died because of the iPod.
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CDs came out about ten years before Minidiscs and cost quite a bit more.
CDs had a head start and I remember hearing the first CD at a friends place and couldnāt hear the hiss or crackles. Mind, in modern parlance, was blown.
Minidiscs are better in some ways mainly durability. That being said my 80ās CDs play fine. Recordable CDs and definitely CD-RWs are another story.
I suspect T.E would love to use Minidiscs as theyāre aesthetically pleasing but even they would baulk at the costs.
Itās strange to me that people are getting back into CDs. Itās not the 16bit 44.1 thing, more the cover art. Even someone with 20/20 vision struggles with reading the credits and yeah so many tabs break off the cases.
I hope T.E use/make a decent transport and not something that effs-up after a couple of years.
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I think the whole ownership of media vs streaming has been a pretty big thing of late. Movies being pulled and all that GTA 6 / gaming ownership malarky
Yeah, minidiscs are better than CDs for portability and recording purposes, but theyāre doing lossy-encoded audio and donāt really serve the same purpose as a proper redbook CD.
CDs are good for portability in theory, but not really in practice (plastic cases breaking, loose discs getting scratched, binders of CDs getting stolenā¦). CDs are great if you have a proper shelf to keep them on.
Even in non-DJing contexts, āProfessional CD Playerā has consistently meant a product with a jog wheel or dial for scrubbing through tracks (had these rack-mount CD player units at a radio station I worked at). If the product listing is legit, Iād guess itās probably going to be a CDJ/XDJ style machine. If I can get one for less than I could get an XDJ-1000mk2, Iād be sold on the idea. If itās priced higher than that, then Iāll be really intrigued to see what theyāve done that justifies industry-standard flagship pricing.
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Most of the EP series has been āaffordableā so canāt imagine theyād go with a big $$$ release with this release
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I agree with you here. CDs are smaller than records and easier to digitize than vinyl or cassette. For me Iāve almost completely quit buying vinyl. I can purchase a CD and still support the artists I want to keep making art. Then rip it to my computer and put it on my iPod or even in my Apple Music library to listen to outside of the house. What intrigues me about a potential TE CD player would be sampling from the hundreds of CDs I have even easier than the LPs. And honestly, I love the EP form factor and love the idea of connecting them all with LEGO. Haha!
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I really need a dongle-free interface with 1/8, 1/4, rca, xlrs abound
that looks nice
and is fun to interact with
and sounds good
all the modern audio interfaces look really bad to me! 
If TE made a DAP they would be printing money.
ā¦the TP-7 is a digital audio player
any confirmation that device is part of the EP series?
There was an āEP_CDā reference in an earlier FCC doc, but it seems to be gone from the current version.
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Gotta be quick now, seems like a lot of the other documentation for the other new devices have had a lot of docs made private