Help! I have a predisposition to purchasing coloured vinyl

[Gigantor]

I must have an addictive personality. Currently, I have an appetite for purchasing coloured vinyl which is probably rubbish. I am unable to test the LPs as my speakers are away for new cross-overs and re-conning.

Can this room cure me of my addiction and knock some sense into me, please?

I am planning on purchasing an ND5 XS 2 to help cure this addiction. Music on tap without the expense of coloured vinyl impulse purchases. I am 59 years old, not 16.

Mitch.

[Suedkiez]

Coloured Vinyl

I bought recently a couple of LPs of Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’. I was delighted, on their arrival, to discover that they were pressed on blue vinyl (which I don’t think I had paid extra for, as a special pressing). I recall reading, some time ago, that any LPs not pressed on black vinyl are technically inferior and more likely to exhibit surface noise. (I haven’t tried either of these new ones yet.) So is it true that non black vinyl is inferior for record pressing? Anyone know?

[Gigantor]

Thank you for this. I realised after posting that there was a similar thread. I am glad I am not alone with my recent addiction.

Mitch.

[biddler66]

I have not noticed a difference between coloured vinyl and black I must say but I have cloth ears. I have got a few picture discs and they always sound dreadful to me, not sure if the picture inside the vinyl plays havoc in how the grooves are pressed ?

[Suedkiez]

They are pictures with a thin layer of vinyl, see the other thread. And they are predominantly for looking

[Suedkiez]

Yours was a fun post to read though

[LSLFAN]

Just make sure you get a black ND5 XS 2!

Peter

[robert_h]

But surely you need White Stripes “elephant” on red and white vinyl?

Or a nice blue “born to die”?