Picture disks on vinyls are absolutely horrible.
Picture disk vs vinyl.
One is a boot and one is the monkee business pd from 1982.
Rather than pressing directly into pure vinyl picture discs are made from a sandwich of materials to achieve a full color printed effect.
The records always skip and the sound quality is muffled.
Cd vs vinyl record comparison.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times i.
Picture discs are gramophone phonograph records that show images on their playing surface rather than being of plain black or colored vinyl.
But honestly i only own two picture discs in my 8 000 lp collection.
Many fans of vinyl are.
It usually doesn t say it anywhere on the packaging.
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.
Picture discs usually have a thinner amount of vinyl so as to accommodate for the picture on the inside.
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.
I m trying to find out how to identify whether a vinyl i m attempting to buy is a picture disk or not.