Describe the "new HiFi sound"?

Try new glasses or clean off the old ones

People like to put things in boxes.  It makes them feel more in control and often slightly superior.

We are all in the same box

@dave_b

I have older recordings that used tube microphones and were completely analog

I have newer recordings that used those same microphones, you think this is somehow important? That is like a look back at your baby pictures, LOL. The "new sound" is better, clearer, you just need a proper (as in 7.1.4) atmos rig to play it back. Anyone clinging to this nostalgia BS has clearly got brain lock, and refuse to adopt the coming tech. I say goodbye and good riddance to the antique limitations of (yech) stereo. The engineers that mix will tell you that atmos has opened up a palate and they have finally been given object based audio after choking in channel based for the last century. What part of this modern studio is somehow inferior to the dinosaurs of the past :

https://youtube.com/shorts/SsYrnDvfO6k?feature=share

Someone using Elton John as an example of a pianist is what's wrong with civilians talking about music.

re: "tube microphones", there is a well known amplifier manufacturer in the USA, who's last designer left the company to go form his own company designing and building new tube microphones after his hobby turned in to a business. Still a bit underground at the moment, but kinda cool in any case.  

Some of these great inventions in audio seem to resurface because the were/are simply that "good". Some of the Old is becoming New again too :)