Why is vintage audio equipment booming?

Music lovers are buying up old cassette, CD and record players and getting them fixed.

Source: Why is vintage audio equipment booming?

fta:

“Perhaps modern Bluetooth speakers, earbuds and headphones lack the character distortion of older equipment.”

fixed that for you… while CD and lossy low-bitrate .MP#s have their own issue, this nostalgia for worse sound, ticks, pops, tape hiss, etc. is just a preference for a specific type of distortion.