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I ask in part because I recently picked up a copy of Faust's s/t, which comes in clear vinyl, and it sound perfectly fine to me.
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Wronkos posted:I ask in part because I recently picked up a copy of Faust's s/t, which comes in clear vinyl, and it sound perfectly fine to me. Here's the thing that most people forget: black records are colored records. Without any further help, records would be clear if they didn't add black coloring to it. Now I've heard a variety of reasons why people claim that colored vinyl sounds worse than black vinyl, but I can't really substantiate it, and it's hard to tell what's true and what's just audiophile made-up goobledegook to justify some weird opinion. I've heard that sometimes, there's more impurities with the pellets they use to color records anything but black, but who knows. There's so many things that could make a pressing bad that it could be false positives. In my opinion, color vinyl has yet to let me down.
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Sep 11, 2014 04:29
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Wronkos posted:Do colored/clear records have lower sound quality than traditional records? Not necessarily. If there's any issue with the sound it's not directly due to the use of colored or clear vinyl. It's usually because there is less quality control on them or they used lovely vinyl that was swept off the floor or something.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:08
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the color makes it spin flat actually. all clear records have to have an extra heavy label to keep them flat. fun fact.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:21
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I found this out when I bought some clear records with standard labels and they'd actually float off my turntable.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:23
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Well, yeah, black especially absorbs more light, making it heavier unlike clear where it just passes through and into your player It's fairly basic science
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Sep 11, 2014 05:37
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I like my colour, splatter and picture discs and the fact that the subject annoys some people just adds more to my enjoyment of them.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:46
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hahaha yeah exactly that i agree
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Sep 11, 2014 05:46
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I love all different colors of vinyl. Black is cool too, but get a sweet splatter on there and I'm way into it. My favorite looking record is The Bad Wife by Julie Christmas: Picture doesn't really do it justice. Colored splatter on clear vinyl is rad.
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Sep 11, 2014 06:57
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If black is better, it would be only because of the bulk quantities of black material available allow for greater quality control than colored vinyl. The only reason they are black is to mimic the original color of shellac records.
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Sep 11, 2014 12:13
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it's to make them spin flat i was pretty clear about that 
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Sep 11, 2014 13:36
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DammitJanet posted:I'll take you up on this offer. Have to look through my collection tonight and see what I'm willing to part with. If I have nothing worth trading I can just paypal you. DamitJanet is a solid trader!
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Sep 11, 2014 13:36
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Would anyone in this thread be interested in doing a mass record trade or pay-it-forward style exchange? If so, I'm happy to orchestrate it separate from the thread (to reduce cluttery posts) and start the proceedings. If you're into it, fill out this Google form and if enough people respond, I'll start the engines. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lgj_ifQW7DbvhW7dzU8W80rONsz-MQdfZQmxhNiruYU/viewform?usp=send_form
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Sep 11, 2014 17:25
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You may want to be more specific about the parameters of exchange. Like, most of what I've got that anyone else would even care about doesn't actually exist. The majority of my collection is stuff scummed from goodwills and is worth 99 cents at most, made up of stuff that most people already have five copies of or wouldn't want in the first place.
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Sep 11, 2014 17:30
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Well, there's always an element of risk/surprise in an exchange, but if we do a straight exchange I would pair email addresses up and you guys could get into as much or as little detail as you like before trading; if we did pay-it-forward style (what I think would be cool is that) it would take a certain level of honesty and judgment in appraising the value of what you have received and deciding what to send off to the next person in line (if your entire collection actually does consist of 99c goodwill records, and you can't find anything that matches the value of what you get in the mail, you can always send the same record you received off to the next person... (or just don't participate, but that's no fun)). Then again, everyone here is a record collecting goon (goony record collector?), so it could be a disaster. We'll never know unless we try! 1000 umbrellas fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 18:19
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stay depressed posted:the color makes it spin flat actually. all clear records have to have an extra heavy label to keep them flat. fun fact. Turntables with automatic size censors do not like clear albums. I realized this when I first tried to play David Bowie's Sound + Vision. I thought the turntable was hosed up.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:34
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I'd be up for a record exchange if it wasn't for the insane postage from/to Aus. I'd buy a record and send it directly to someone from wherever they live to save on postage. We could have everyone buy a record for someone else at the value of $$something dollars
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Sep 11, 2014 23:43
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bowmore posted:I'd be up for a record exchange if it wasn't for the insane postage from/to Aus. I'd buy a record and send it directly to someone from wherever they live to save on postage. I'm in for this.
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Sep 12, 2014 06:10
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If any of you New England people are reading this Newbury Comics is having a buy two get on free sale on all records. Today I picked up Manipulator by Ty Segall, The Big Dream by David Lynch, and the new mono reissue of Revolver.
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Sep 14, 2014 21:11
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How is the mono Revolver? I was thinking of picking it up but can't find it anywhere for any less than £25.
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Sep 14, 2014 21:32
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My latest haul from my vacation in France. Most of them for around 5€. Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Bluejeans & Moonbeams Lethe - When Dreams Become Nightmares Marc Almond - The Stars We Are Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life The Mothers - Fillmore East - June 1971 Japan - Quiet Life Diamanda Galás - The Divine Punishment Jenny Piccolo - Information Battle To Denounce The Genocide To Rococo Rot - Lips + some Black Metal and Electronica CDs
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Sep 14, 2014 21:48
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Jonny posted:How is the mono Revolver? I was thinking of picking it up but can't find it anywhere for any less than £25. All the new reissues are great. They did it pure analog, so that's cool. And the records are really clean. As for Revolver in mono, it's much better than the stereo mix. There's a few mix errors in stereo, and overall, the mono just hits harder with better bass and more cohesive sound.
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Sep 15, 2014 02:20
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I have 4 albums pre-ordered and now I'm sad I won't get them until the end of October or later.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:26
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Here's a bunch of stuff I've bought over the past month or so that I've been meaning to post: Benjamin Booker - s/t (local hometown hero) Beyond the Black Rainbow OST Brian Eno - Ambient 4 Can - Tago Mago + Ege Bamyasi (reissues) Courtney Barnett - A Sea of Split Peas Crime - Murder By Guitar Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (60s press) FKA Twigs - LP1 Gun Club - Miami Jill Jones - s/t Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Australian pressing) Missy Elliott - The Cookbook Neil Hamburger - America's Funnyman Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi Nina Hagen Band - s/t Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (UK press) Smokey and the Bandit OST Surf Nazis Must Die! OST Television - Marquee Moon (1st press) Ty Segall - Manipulator (black vinyl version but I got it signed at his show the other night) And the Beatles mono box but I was too lazy to take a picture of all of those. Pretty blown away by how nice they all look and sound other than the booklet in my copy of Magical Mystery Tour coming ripped out of the spine, but I guess that's just part of the ~authenticity~. Oh and they kinda botched the locked groove on Sgt Pepper which sucks.
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Surfingelectrode posted:Oh and they kinda botched the locked groove on Sgt Pepper which sucks. what did they do to it
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Sep 15, 2014 05:21
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"The first series were made from communist vinyl salvaged from the Budapest flea markets." http://vinylize.com/pages/philosophy
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Wilbur Swain posted:"The first series were made from communist vinyl salvaged from the Budapest flea markets."  gently caress those guys, I'd rather the communist vinyl
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Sep 17, 2014 01:05
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Seriously, gently caress their stupid glasses those records were probably awesome.
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Sep 17, 2014 02:12
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Don't worry, the Hungarian version of Sing Along With Mitch sucks just as bad as the Wrstern one.
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1000 umbrellas posted:No one should be without the albums that are important to them! A couple pages back, I complained about the crazy increase in price for available copies of "Sea Change" by Beck. 1000 umbrellas took pity on me and hooked a brotha up for the original price (having an extra copy). A truly super dude. I came back home after an exhausting few days to see:  He kindly slipped a copy of "Chemtrails" in there (I'd forgotten what a great track that is) and my copy of "Beyond the Black Rainbow" and Tycho's "Past is Prologue" had also arrived. In a strange coincidence, I had problems fitting both Black Rainbow and the Tycho record in the sleeves I've used to hold countless other double (and even triple) LPs. Black Rainbow just has a super-thick spine and I ended up having to fit it in backwards. The Tycho album is a nice 2LP package with printed inner sleeves, but is thick, very stiff, and not very glossy, so nothing slides easily. The slits on the gatefold are also very thin, so hard to fit the records in. Oh well - a weird situation, but I suppose deal and today I'm a happier man. Thanks again, 1000 umbrellas!  All this helps soften the blow of the loss of my "Endtroducing..." a few weeks ago after my wife dropped it from a few feet off the ground and it somehow immediately broke.  You win some, you lose some.
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bowmore posted:
go to a flea market in europe then. there's always piles of them in the 50 cent boxes.
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Davincie posted:go to a flea market in europe then. there's always piles of them in the 50 cent boxes. I'd be disappointed if I went to an Eastern European flea market and didn't see a bunch of Herb Alpert and Neil Diamond records. Shocked and disappointed.
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Sep 17, 2014 13:39
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Whoa, everybody, don't miss out on the limited edition color vinyl 180 gram reissue of David Bowie's version of Peter and the Wolf! 
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Sep 17, 2014 19:43
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Darthemed posted:Whoa, everybody, don't miss out on the limited edition color vinyl 180 gram reissue of David Bowie's version of Peter and the Wolf!
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BigFactory posted:I'd be disappointed if I went to an Eastern European flea market and didn't see a bunch of Herb Alpert and Neil Diamond records. Shocked and disappointed. My sister went to Europe recently and I asked her to bring back some interesting records. What does she bring back? Some Chinese Herb Alpert albums.
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luncheon meat posted:My sister went to Europe recently and I asked her to bring back some interesting records. What does she bring back? Some Chinese Herb Alpert albums. Were they Chinese pressings of Herb Alpert albums or were they the Chinese equivalent of Herb Alpert?
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Bought the Acid Rap bootleg on pink vinyl. 1000 copies, 250 on the pink. There is yellow clear and black. I had high hopes for the sleeve, but it kind of a lovely trace job (those eyes). The labels on the discs range from obvious bootleg to passable. Haven't had a chance to listen yet. http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Acid-Rap-Pink-Vinyl.html?listtype=search&searchparam=acid%20rap lol at the + digital version being that it's a free mixtape. Fors Yard fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 17:42
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Mondo "acquires" Death Waltz. Millions of hipsters cry out in pain and are suddenly silenced. http://pitchfork.com/news/56687-coo...er-releases-due
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DammitJanet posted:Mondo "acquires" Death Waltz. Millions of hipsters cry out in pain and are suddenly silenced. That 2001 gatefold looks really cool. I didn't even know there was an unused score for that movie.
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wa27 posted:That 2001 gatefold looks really cool. I didn't even know there was an unused score for that movie. That is cool. Obviously the record should be a monolith-shaped slab of vinyl though 
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