Can You Play Picture Disc Vinyl

Picture discs are gramophone phonograph records that show images on their playing surface rather than being of plain black or colored vinyl.

Can you play picture disc vinyl. It will take a long long time to do it. Joker omps soundtrack bn exclusive picture disc vinyl lp record. A record is made of vinyl but not referred to as a vinyl as a playback. From a manufacturing standpoint picture discs consist of a solid core made of plastic paper or metal that has a paper image placed over it.

Many picture discs do sound good. These are the items specifically designed for playback on a turntable or record player. A picture disc i purchased in 1984 still sounds great and i own many more. Picture discs look like round photographs though unlike photographs they can also play music.

While picture discs aren t necessarily bad your normal vinyl records will usually play better. Thriller vinyl picture disc by michael jackson cd sep 2008 2 discs cbs 19 50. Jefferson starship dolly parton all i can do prototype picture disc 395 00. Yeah eventually you ll wear into the picture.

Next time buy a record. And in some cases if the mastering was handled better for the picture disc release than it was for the standard vinyl pressing the picture disc can sound better despite the downsides. Madonna like a virgin 1984 white vinyl promotional lp white vinyl promotional copy of madonna s like a virgin. One recent example is the picture disc release of liam gallagher s as you were cut by barry grint from alchemy.

An experimental picture disc of all i can do by dolly parton featuring an image of the jefferson starship on the disc. Dark crystal age resistance aureyal pic disc rsd 2020 9 26 lp vinyl record new.