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Yeah, it’s not quite that simple. One thing that really sucks is a lot of the tech, tuning and design that existed is not as simple as just making the thing again. Manufacturing equipment has to exist and experience making the thing has to exist. Take a look at the state of cassette.
There is only one company currently making cassette and there is no real way to get anything else besides the one model that they make. Even the highest end new cassette players use the same one because there is literally no other facility making them.
Compare any modern cassette to walkmans or really any handheld player from the 90s in terms of sound or even size and you will see everything from then is so much smaller and sounds way better.
The facility that makes the modern ones knows this and acknowledges it. It’s just the manufacturing does not exist anymore.
That is just tape.
CRTs are absolutely nuts in comparison. It will be a truly sad day that CRTs are no longer a thing you can find.
The Walkman was my go-to reaction as well. They literally don’t make ‘em like they used to.
Thats so funny I used the exact same example !
It’s a great example with lots of talking points!