There's plenty of analog meters being made every year. Just look at any automobile dashboard. They experimented with digital dashes back in the 80s and quickly abandoned them. Even Teslas, which have an LCD screen in the dashboard, have analog meters; they're just done in software, no different that a phone or PC that has an icon of an analog clock face.
Interestingly, though, modern cars with analog meters actually have them driven digitally; the indicator is really a servomotor, driven by digital inform
Yep. My power amp has a pair of big, blue meters on it. It's only about six years old, but McIntosh certainly hasn't stopped using them. Indeed, the trend has been towards ever larger meters. My truck - 2012 Peterbilt - has fourteen or fifteen analog gauges, (and six digital gauges). It would be more costly to use a display large enough to accommodate that many gauges, which you want to have visible at a glance. While it's certainly feasible in a car, I notice some manufacturers, like Cooper, have opted for analog, simply for looks. But it is true you see fewer analog meters anymore. They've pretty much been eliminated from soundboards these days, mostly I suspect because they take up more space.
Claim is BS. (Score:5, Informative)
There's plenty of analog meters being made every year. Just look at any automobile dashboard. They experimented with digital dashes back in the 80s and quickly abandoned them. Even Teslas, which have an LCD screen in the dashboard, have analog meters; they're just done in software, no different that a phone or PC that has an icon of an analog clock face.
Interestingly, though, modern cars with analog meters actually have them driven digitally; the indicator is really a servomotor, driven by digital inform
Re:Claim is BS. (Score:2)
Yep. My power amp has a pair of big, blue meters on it. It's only about six years old, but McIntosh certainly hasn't stopped using them. Indeed, the trend has been towards ever larger meters. My truck - 2012 Peterbilt - has fourteen or fifteen analog gauges, (and six digital gauges). It would be more costly to use a display large enough to accommodate that many gauges, which you want to have visible at a glance. While it's certainly feasible in a car, I notice some manufacturers, like Cooper, have opted for analog, simply for looks. But it is true you see fewer analog meters anymore. They've pretty much been eliminated from soundboards these days, mostly I suspect because they take up more space.