Anybody NOT like colored vinyl?
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VintageVibe
Active Member
I mean, how can you not like this?
Me too. 78rpm IIRC
I had these yellow vinyl records as a kid in the early 60's.
halkaloogie
The Jerk
I'm pretty ambivalent when it comes to colored records. I have a bunch of them, but none of them were purposefully purchased for that reason. I have a handful of picture discs that I don't think I've ever played that I've snagged over the years, but most of them are really oddly shaped and only have one song on them and are much more for show than anything else.
I don't have any reservation about buying colored records and don't have any problem cueing or cleaning them, but truthfully I would rather have black if given the option.
I don't have any reservation about buying colored records and don't have any problem cueing or cleaning them, but truthfully I would rather have black if given the option.
Yup. My Mitsubishi LT30 doesn't do colored vinyl very well.
This whole post. Yep.
Yep I think you mentioned this in the big record listening thread.
Yeah any time I see these locals I try to buy them. They are almost as silent as the One Step discs at a fifth of the cost .
Athanasios
Vinyl does not care, nor does it know what color it is.
I, on the other hand like colored vinyl.
Mike
I, on the other hand like colored vinyl.
Mike
sqlsavior
Lunatic Member
Have never bought a picture disk, and the one or two splatter colored ones I have don't offend. Transparent vinyl records of Hank Williams Greatest Hits and Through the Past Darkly both have excellent sounds, as does the red disk of Nirvana Unplugged in my avatar. The transparent disks in particular are kind of hypnotizing, visually.
It has been published that to make vinyl black they use carbon which is conductive, and the guy who invented the ultra high dollar vinyl that lacks carbon did it after Micheal Fremer used a demagnatizer on his cartridge because the carbon in vinyl effected it. Now to me that doesn't make a lot of sense as you need a magnetic field to create a small voltage signal and if you eliminated the magnets magnetic properties you in effect ruin you ability to create a signal, but regardless that is the reason given as to where and why that vinyl was created, and it was by the man who owned classic records.
Have never bought a picture disk, and the one or two splatter colored ones I have don't offend. Transparent vinyl records of Hank Williams Greatest Hits and Through the Past Darkly both have excellent sounds, as does the red disk of Nirvana Unplugged in my avatar. The transparent disks in particular are kind of hypnotizing, visually.
You mean like this ?
JoeESP9
ESL's & tubes since 83
Have never bought a picture disk, and the one or two splatter colored ones I have don't offend. Transparent vinyl records of Hank Williams Greatest Hits and Through the Past Darkly both have excellent sounds, as does the red disk of Nirvana Unplugged in my avatar. The transparent disks in particular are kind of hypnotizing, visually.
Try looking at a revolving clear LP when the TT has a clear Acrylic platter and the platter mat is clear.
gizzyman47
Addicted Member
I have several colored albums. I like them and can't recall any of them sounding bad. Own two picture discs.....The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and Blade Runner by Vangelis. Bought them just for displaying.
JamVal
Addicted Member
I have a bias that the opaque colored vinyl LP's are garbage. Only because I was stationed on Taiwan 1971-72 where LP's were 'legally' bootlegged for domestic sale. However the quality sucked. Most of them were on opaque orange, red, yellow vinyl.
We bought them for NT$10. Which at the time was US$0.25 (a quarter). Our rule of thumb was to tape them to reel-to-reel on the first play, after that the surface noise got progressively worse.
We couldn't (or weren't supposed to) ship them back to the world anyhow. Our barracks break room was loaded, floor to ceiling along one wall with discarded opaque colored vinyl. The bootleg pressers on Taiwan would also produce compilation albums of the Billboard top hits weekly. Many of the local clubs had turntables behind the bar where we could bring them in for a listen over a few beers.
We would by them in this place, Linkou Books & Records, No. 58, Section 3, Zhongshan N Rd, Taipei City, Taiwan(c. 1971)
The business is still there, now called Caves Books (c. 2011) (The crazies on scooters are still there too.)
We bought them for NT$10. Which at the time was US$0.25 (a quarter). Our rule of thumb was to tape them to reel-to-reel on the first play, after that the surface noise got progressively worse.
We couldn't (or weren't supposed to) ship them back to the world anyhow. Our barracks break room was loaded, floor to ceiling along one wall with discarded opaque colored vinyl. The bootleg pressers on Taiwan would also produce compilation albums of the Billboard top hits weekly. Many of the local clubs had turntables behind the bar where we could bring them in for a listen over a few beers.
We would by them in this place, Linkou Books & Records, No. 58, Section 3, Zhongshan N Rd, Taipei City, Taiwan(c. 1971)
The business is still there, now called Caves Books (c. 2011) (The crazies on scooters are still there too.)
illini
The Past is Alive
And specially-shaped LPs
zoombrewer77
Tinnitus Maximus
I have a World Records Hank Mobley. Sounds terrible. We've talked about this before. Down to the crazies on scooters.