Losing your hearing at 24 ... priceless.

Technically, the head basket on that "German Mic" is all wrong.

That one's a Latvian knockoff.

should have 'not to scale' on bottom of graphic

Once I started finding out that "vintage" no longer means "older than I am" I began getting annoyed.

Vintage can be good if you are a wino... I've known a few vintage winos. They were OK as long as you never, ever pull the bottle out of the paperbag.

I worry about my grand daughters' hearing.

The OP reminds me of how guitarists are obsessed with "their tone" and 99+% of their audience just hear a "guitar".
 
Also... in the diagram, they forgot the Antares unit that makes everything sound like .99 before it ever gets to the MP3 stage...

 Trickle down recording?

Brilliant

Not too depressing if you consider that same signal chain used to end up on a cassette...

AAwesome studio drawing! Major props to whomever did it!!