Picture Disk Vinyl Sound Quality

Albeit with the hiss still.

Picture disk vinyl sound quality.

The records always skip and the sound quality is muffled. 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. One recent example is the picture disc release of liam gallagher s as you were cut by barry grint from alchemy. Picture disks on vinyls are absolutely horrible.

I m trying to find out how to identify whether a vinyl i m attempting to buy is a picture disk or not. Collectors traditionally reserve the term picture disc for records with graphics that extend at least partly into the actual playable grooved area distinguishing them from picture label discs which have a specially illustrated and sometimes very. Picture discs colored vinyl. Iron maiden and other metal bands due to the usually striking artwork on metal albums have done every album on picture disc only and i must say they are very thick very smooth and sound fantastic.

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. And what music it is. Clear vinyl picture discs and glow in the dark pressings are more susceptible to poor playback. Many picture discs do sound good.

The quality of the picture disc is first class and the surface noise if you re still concerned about it is audible only between tracks and barely audible during the music. Does anyone know how to id whether it s a normal black record or a picture disk. But they have gotten much much better. Picture discs are gramophone phonograph records that show images on their playing surface rather than being of plain black or colored vinyl.

A few exceptions exist.