eli5: Why do old recordings (tv / audio) sound so nasally?

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Watching old movies or broadcasts always sound the same. Everyone has a very muffled and nasal sound to them. What caused microphones to produce such a uniformly weird sound?

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Part of it is that people had a special accent called transatlantic. It’s the accent you hear commonly in old tv shows and media

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