This settles it. teenage engineering, the prolific Swedish audio design company, is undoubtedly making the best hardware products today. Time after time, they are producing quality design that is reminiscent of the good old Braun days of the 50s and 60s. It's wonderful to see. Albeit, with a fairly hefty price tag. Their latest offering is the beautifully built TP–7 field recorder.

There are thoughts, ideas and fragments that—for the sake of humanity—we need to record and be able to return to as a reference, as a seed for new thoughts or just to remember another time.

TP–7 is built for just that, to record sound, music, interviews, and important ideas with zero friction in the highest possible quality. A device engineered in every detail to do only one thing and to do it well. A dedicated piece of hardware for ideas, thoughts, or sounds. TP–7 fits perfectly in the palm of your hand and lets your fingers naturally adopt the controls with lovely tactility. The index finger triggers fast forward and the middle finger rewinds. Your thumb records a memo, the pinky selects the mode. It's a genuinely rewarding man-machine experience.