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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Are you referring to the trans Atlantic accent?

If so it was a cultural phenomenon in the 30s-40s because it sounded like the way rich higher classes spoke so it became popular in media

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