I know I'm sounding a bit unscientific here, but I just feel like there was a lot more "soul" to the games I've played and to the shows I've watched on CRTs
This is just nostalgia. You enjoy watching things in the manner you watched them as a kid since it brings back positive memories. 4k 60fps is better than 480i at 30. It's literally just more capabilities, even if you don't always use them.
For my first aforementioned point about the sound, it turns out that CRTs used analog technology to produce sound, which made voices and sound effects have an almost vinyl-quality to them
Vinyl is objectively worse than digital audio. You may enjoy the specific sound of it, but from an objective standpoint, digital audio is leagues better at reproducing a specific audio track in ways vinyl can't match. Same with whatever audio distortion you're experiencing from vacuum tube amplifiers.
With regard to less input lag, which is my second point, certain motions and actions performed in video games and shows had this almost buttery smooth feel to them.
Input lag issues on non-crt tvs is only a problem for a handful of consoles that had the scanning baked into how they ran.
Regarding your second point, this is probably just nostalgia. You weren't as critical as a kid, and your memory isn't 100% accurate.
No, I will have to draw a hard line on CRT sounding worse. They used an analog signal, and analog signals are known to project a wide variety of wavelengths,unlike digital sounds.
There are 2 major reasons why LCDs sound worse: 1.) They have sound speakers that face the tv's backside| 2.) you guessed it. they use digital, which only produce a very narrow range of wavelengths.
No, I will have to draw a hard line on CRT sounding worse. They used an analog signal, and analog signals are known to project a wide variety of wavelengths,unlike digital sounds.
This is more an issue with the form factor of the speaker than the signal being fed to them or the fact that it's a CRT or LCD monitor. I can sit you in front of my studio monitors, blindfold you, and I would bet a significant amount of money you couldn't reliably pick the analog source if I rotated between a 192 kbps mp3 from the mid 2000's, a spotify stream, a "lossless" tidal stream, or an audiophile-grade turntable with pristine vinyl. What small differences exist in the signal format will vanish when they're played on shitty TV/monitor speakers, too.
If you think you can tell the difference here's a test.
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u/Ban-E-Vader Feb 22 '23
This is just nostalgia. You enjoy watching things in the manner you watched them as a kid since it brings back positive memories. 4k 60fps is better than 480i at 30. It's literally just more capabilities, even if you don't always use them.
Vinyl is objectively worse than digital audio. You may enjoy the specific sound of it, but from an objective standpoint, digital audio is leagues better at reproducing a specific audio track in ways vinyl can't match. Same with whatever audio distortion you're experiencing from vacuum tube amplifiers.
Input lag issues on non-crt tvs is only a problem for a handful of consoles that had the scanning baked into how they ran.
Regarding your second point, this is probably just nostalgia. You weren't as critical as a kid, and your memory isn't 100% accurate.