I m trying to find out how to identify whether a vinyl i m attempting to buy is a picture disk or not.
Picture vinyl sound quality.
Rather than pressing directly into pure vinyl picture discs are made from a sandwich of materials to achieve a full color printed effect.
If this ranking that they came up with were actually the case i would like to know where the clear colored vinyl would rank.
You can read more about picture discs here.
Picture disks on vinyls are absolutely horrible.
A few exceptions exist.
The result is a vinyl record that typically suffers from increased surface noise and overall lower quality sound.
Does anyone know how to id whether it s a normal black record or a picture disk.
The records always skip and the sound quality is muffled.
Why in the heck would sundazed music reissue these upcoming 36 titles by the ventures all on colored vinyl.
It s not the color it s either the pressing the plates or other impurities stuff like that.
Very few additives can be mixed into clear vinyl without jeopardizing the opacity which means there is a potential for worse sound quality albeit this drop is often imperceptible to the common listener.
One of vinyl s great benefits is sound quality but which records bring out the best in the format.
We ve picked 20 of the best sounding records from a bunch of different genres including folk.
It usually doesn t say it anywhere on the packaging.
Picture discs colored vinyl absolutely don t believe that garbage about how colored vinyl sounds terrible.