Thought this would be the right place for this very cool double album Tangerine Dream picture disc set.
Looks better in real life than the photo shows.
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Do you like Pic Disks? Common wisdom used to be they had worse SQ. Do you agree?
It may have been psychological for me as I always believed that too. I also wouldn’t buy coloured vinyl if it was offered in black too. These days I’m not so sure when I listen to the ones I have.
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I think that and the colored vinyl myth has been debunked.
After all, black vinyl is colored vinyl. Raw vinyl is almost clear.
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Like @garye I used to steer well clear of any picture records for the supposedly worse SQ reasons.
However now I’m older, although likely no wiser, it may just have been a huge myth after all.
I don’t own many but this one for example sounds pretty darn decent to my old ears.
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Perhaps it all coincided with some of the crap quality of vinyl they were producing in 70s and 80s and the picture got the bad rap.
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I believe they still use Carbon Black to make black records.
Which is likely a little inferior to clear if it really mattered.
I think most modern pressings not matter what the finish unless a mofi one are very similar right now in SQ with regards to the actual record material.
It’s again all in the master recording.
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Have to set my Garrard up with it’s mono cartridge as have a few freshly cleaned mono records I want to spin.
That’s next.
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Is this what you are referring to:
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Lol
Even I don’t have any CD video discs or Laserdiscs.
I know some here will find that hard to believe 
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Nobody in this thread believes that for a moment 
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The record store I shopped at last week had quite a pile of Laserdisc for sale, even some good live concerts.
No, I was not tempted…
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What about my star shaped Police Picture Disk?
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What’s it play like?
I have one picture single that plays horrible and sounds like it plays.
But it’s pretty funky so I framed it instead and it now just hangs up in my music room…lol
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I had a load of odd shaped picture disc’s.
I wonder how they have held up after nearly 40 years on the record boxes 
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Or my Prince one
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I’m sure they will sound as good as they ever did…you know you are going to cave sooner or later 
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I actually haven’t looked in years, but, I bet those 3 discs together alone are worth some money.
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Well my new amp has two vinyl inputs an mm and mc 
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