Does colored vinyl sound as bad as picture discs?

All vinyl is coloured with something, since vinyl is colourless when produced. The 'black ones are coloured using carbon black.

salut, Bob P.

I've bought 2 picture disks (one on purpose, one on accident) and they both are awful. One of them is even out of tune (how do you screw something up that badly?).

Never noticed a problem with colored vinyl. Bad sounding colored vinyl would likely be bad sounding if it were black too.

I don't think the colour of an LP is any more relevant to playback on a conventional turntable than the colour of your speakers or the colour of the shirt you're wearing when you listen. On the other hand if you're using one of those exotic laser turntables, then it is plausible that the colour of the medium could affect the reading ability of the laser.

The issue is how good the recording was made, the mastering, the cutting and pressing, and also very importantly the quality of the vinyl plug used. Only virgin vinyl is best, recycled vinyl is not as quiet. All the major NOS vinyl pressers bemoan the hard to obtain and quality virgin vinyl for modern pressings.

My old puke colored Dave Mason Alone Together that I've had since 1971 when it came out sounds great and much better than some of my Classic recent releases, such as the new Coldplay that was pressed on total junk vinyl. After one pass it has devloped "potholes" where the vinyl had no elasticity as the stylus passed over and now these micro chips are permanent. That crap vinyl is brittle at the groove stylus interface. More like a foam than a solid. Same thing with the recent Classic pressing of The Who's Quadrophenia. And no, it's not my stylus.