And with support for battery operation, there’s no need to plug into AC either, so you can literally play anywhere! Featuring new cutting-edge wireless guitar technology developed by BOSS, the Katana-Air gives you the freedom to jam and practice without hassling with guitar cables. I get 'target audience' for the small, toteable wireless amp, but when there are people who have 4x12 'practice rigs' in their living room and have no qualms with being 'analog and old school' and just plugging into something - I don't know how many of these will sell when compared to their own product line.Meet the Katana-Air, the world’s first totally wireless guitar amplifier. We guitar players are certainly a 'more is more' breed, and the fact that the Katana 50 is $200, light, small, and gig-able - it feel like Boss is competing directly with itself. ![]() I wouldn't be surprised to see it at $350, or even $299 down the road soon to more directly compete with the THR10. Regardless, it's still $399 in the presser, which is not cheap, and doesn't explicitly specify if that's 'just what it is', or if there's going to be MRSP/Retail price monkeying. So unless you are directly converting currency, that price conversion is going to be way off the actual price stateside. The British pound is in the toilet right now, and imported products into Britain end up being about the same price over here right now. Yeah, the $500 quote because somebody googled pounds to dollars price conversion is WAY off. At $500+, I wouldn't even give it a second thought. At $300 I think the Adio and the TRH amps are really pushing what's a reasonable price, but it serves so many purposes for me as a second amp that it was worth it to me. I have a Vox Adio which does everything this amp does and maybe more, other than the wireless guitar thing. ![]() Which is obviously part of your point as well. I get the point of the amp, but I don't get selling an amp trying to make that particular point at $500 though. At twice the price, they're not wildly popular or motivating a 600+ page thread here. I mean, nobody thinks the K-50 or K-100 is the BEST amp they've ever played, just the best by a long shot at the price. I still think this Katana Air is a cool amp to put out there for them that wants it, but I have trouble seeing them selling a whole lot of 'em at that price. And use that wireless with my bigger amp too if I want to. Yeah, it can be wireless, but for $150 I can make the Adio wireless but still have it run wirelessly through a small pedal board. I don't see the Katana Air doing any of those things better for nearly twice the price. And it sounds overwhelmingly better than something like a Katana mini (yeah I tried one) or Backstar Fly or other similar mini-amps but is only a little bit bigger. It even takes pedals decently, which I was not expecting. The Adio is my travel amp (I'm down south for 2 1/2 months right now and it's my only amp), my recording amp (straight one cable in/out USB to my Mac or iPad for recording and monitoring), my backing track player (BT or USB or AUX), my BT speaker for all manner of other stuff in the room, and its where I go for the occasional fix of crazy sounds I can't get out of my Blues Cube (like insane amounts of Orange high gain and various effects combinations that I use roughly never but like having available for the occasional lark). My Blues Cube Hot is my sounds amazing at bedroom or small club volume amp, great with pedals, and not too big for my man-cave. ![]() Click to expand.I get the point of the amp, but I don't get selling an amp trying to make that particular point at $500 though.
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