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Colored vinyl?

AdamAnt316 said:
It's definitely a different color than what I've seen from Quiex II, aka "Super Vinyl" as MFSL referred to it. One other possibility I can think of is styrene, but not many LPs were pressed using it, AFAIK, and the styrene 45s I've seen are generally a more reddish purple than what I'm seeing from this LP.
-Adam
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Quiex II and MFSL "Super Vinyl" was not the same according to a thread on steve hoffman forum, but I don't have any personal knowledge.
 
This Tool picture disc sounds pretty good.

I also have a Deftones Diamond Eyes white vinyl pressing - actually sounds great.

I have had shite sounding discs in the past though - I had heard that these are made out of acetate, rather than what is usually used to press black vinyl records. That could be a load of old bollocks though. But the ones I didnt like usually sounded a bit tinny and had heaps of pops and other surface noise.

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Translucent gold: Madcats (debut)
Translucent rich medium blue: ZON (Back Down to Earth)
I have a VERY deep purple Deep Purple. For years I thought it was black, but turning it over once, something caught my eye so I held it up to a light and found out that it was coloured vinyl. Sure sounds like black vinyl, though.....
 
Tiver said:
Quiex II and MFSL "Super Vinyl" was not the same according to a thread on steve hoffman forum, but I don't have any personal knowledge.
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Well, I don't know about the chemical makeup of either, but both of them definitely look very similar, if not identical, when you shine a light (in this case, a "Coast" LED headlamp similar to this one) through the record. Here's an example of Quiex II vinyl, a promo copy of Neil Young - Trans:
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And now here's an example of Super Vinyl, a MFSL copy of Steely Dan - Aja:
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Now here's the copy of Lyres - On Fyre I mentioned earlier, looking much different than either one of the above:
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And for good measure, here's two views of light shined through a styrene 45, in this case Shocking Blue - Venus b/w Hot Sand:
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AdamAnt316 said:
Well, I don't know about the chemical makeup of either, but both of them definitely look very similar, if not identical, when you shine a light (in this case, a "Coast" LED headlamp similar to this one) through the record. Here's an example of Quiex II vinyl, a copy of Neil Young - Trans:
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And now here's an example of Super Vinyl, a MFSL copy of Steely Dan - Aja:
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Now here's the copy of Lyres - On Fyre I mentioned earlier, looking much different than either one of the above:
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And for good measure, here's two views of light shined through a styrene 45, in this case Shocking Blue - Venus b/w Hot Sand:
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Thanks for sharing those pics. I will look at some MFSL and I must have some Quiex and see if they are consistent.
 
I noticed you posted that the colored version did not sound right. I wonder if you had a bad pressing. Mine sounds just fine.
 
polypetalous said:
I have quite a few colored vinyl records...
Given the choice I usually prefer the non-colored version, with my only real complaint that a couple of "marbled/mixed color records" sound not as good.

My only real bias is "picture discs," I don't want em.

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I've noticed a bit more surface noise with a couple marbled records I have. The rest of the colored records I own sound fine. One though even after buying two copies sounded bad. That was Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album. A friend had a copy also. Same thing, very noisy. It could have been due to too many copies made before swapping out master discs maybe?
 
Shark Bait said:
I noticed you posted that the colored version did not sound right. I wonder if you had a bad pressing. Mine sounds just fine.
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I'm sure it was a bad pressing, As I said in an earlier post, it sounded like it was dragged behind a gravel truck. I've had scratched up thrift store records that sounded better. I had it exchanged for a copy on black vinyl and that copy sounds fine.
 
slimecity said:
This Tool picture disc sounds pretty good.

I also have a Deftones Diamond Eyes white vinyl pressing - actually sounds great.

I have had shite sounding discs in the past though - I had heard that these are made out of acetate, rather than what is usually used to press black vinyl records. That could be a load of old bollocks though. But the ones I didnt like usually sounded a bit tinny and had heaps of pops and other surface noise.

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Those are hit and miss it seems, mine sounds pretty bad (and not just in the picture, but in the sold black areas as well).
 
chelsea wolfe - abyss, clear blue double album

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chelsea wolfe - birth of violence, both were tour merch editions

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boris - love/evol - tour merch limited editions

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nazz - nazz nazz

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