Is Picture Vinyl Worse Sounding

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Is picture vinyl worse sounding.

Only white should sound worse. Clear vinyl picture discs and glow in the dark pressings are more susceptible to poor playback. Many picture discs do sound good. The white substance used to due the record can cause random pops rumor has it that it is a kind of chalk.

Other vinyl colored or clear can be dead quiet. What this mainly leads to is increased surface noise which is most obviously heard in the silence between tracks. One recent example is the picture disc release of liam gallagher s as you were cut by barry grint from alchemy. The expensive machines designed to de magnetize records before play are de magnetizing the carbon used to make vinyl black.

Why in the heck would sundazed music reissue these upcoming 36 titles by the ventures all on colored vinyl. A few exceptions exist. Do they sound worse to you. 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. Never spritz water or wet play a vinyl record in an attempt to quiet the crackle and pops. Picture discs colored vinyl absolutely don t believe that garbage about how colored vinyl sounds terrible. The simplest is to make a record that plays faster.

Doing so only causes the stylus to spread the abrasive sludge deeper into the grooves possibly doing irreversible damage. And in some cases if the mastering was handled better for the picture disc release than it was for the standard vinyl pressing the picture disc can sound better despite the downsides.