Never stack vinyl records as shown in this photo as it can lead to warped discs and ring wear on the album jackets.
Why do vinyl picture discs have noise.
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.
In the late 1970s american record companies began to send out picture discs as promotional items to programmers at radio stations.
I find this very interesting as someone who owns a handful of pic discs.
They have their place and many will tell you that the quality of picture discs have improved over the years.
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Picture discs are gramophone phonograph records that show images on their playing surface rather than being of plain black or colored vinyl.
Many picture discs do sound good.
As far as we know that particular album was never reissued on vinyl making it possibly a picture disc only release.
Never spritz water or wet play a vinyl record in an attempt to quiet the crackle and pops.
Again these picture discs were plagued by sound problems and didn t sell particularly well.
Never wet play a vinyl record does wet playing a record help reduce noise.