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Is it just me?

zefred

zefred

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Is it just me or are these new picture disc LP's that are reissues just sounding like ****? I just bought Iron Maidens "piece of mind" and Biz Markie's "The Biz never Sleeps" picture disc and they both have tons of surface noise. To me they sound like **** compared to non picture discs. What gives?
 
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I bought one picture disk two years ago as a curiosity and was so disappointed I gave it to a thrift. I should have framed it. Interestingly, I have two hologram albums that play fine.

Gerard
 
I bought a TOOL picture disk Lateralus album and the recording sounds great and better than the cd but a lot of surface noise for the price you pay.
 
Elitemav said:
I bought a TOOL picture disk Lateralus album and the recording sounds great and better than the cd but a lot of surface noise for the price you pay.
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What gives with the surface noise? None of my other records give off so much surface noise as the picture disc's, and they are new.
 
zefred said:
What gives with the surface noise? None of my other records give off so much surface noise as the picture disc's, and they are new.
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I dont know. most of my records are dead quiet and I clean them OCD like with my RCM but picture discs just seem to be loud no matter what or they just have crappy QC because they figure no one listens to them or what not. I dunno. I saw a ozzy picture disc at frys but didnt by it for that very reason. haha
 
The noise may have a lot to do with how picture records are manufactured, the piece of paper that gets sandwiched between the vinyl, errr... slabs? Yes, lets call it slabs, anyway, that piece of paper stuck between the slabs of vinyl may be the culprit, I have several picture records and what I hear sounds more like resonance than actual surface noise.
I could be wrong though.

John
 
From the time I started being aware of vinyl (1974) the word on picture discs has been that they sound like frozen farts thawing. Appreciate them as eye-candy. There's a reason records are black. I'm not saying I know what it is, but it stands to reason if the majority are black and sound good and the other ones don't...you know what I mean.
 
Zodia said:
The noise may have a lot to do with how picture records are manufactured, the piece of paper that gets sandwiched between the vinyl, errr... slabs? Yes, lets call it slabs, anyway, that piece of paper stuck between the slabs of vinyl may be the culprit, I have several picture records and what I hear sounds more like resonance than actual surface noise.
I could be wrong though.

John
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Well, I demonstrated the sound to my son, and he asked if it could be that the needle had to break through the paint of the LP? in order to get through the surface noise? Made sense to me at the time, but I haven't been able to do it.
 
Back in the day Picture discs had a note on the jacket that they would not play as wel as a regular record. People used to buy them and make them into clocks.

Marc mc
 
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