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Topic: Black vinyl ain't so black - what's going on?

  31st Jul 2016, 12:11 PM
TopPopper

Member since Mar 2013
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I just noticed that certain LPs in my collection, namely a whole series on the Pye label, aren't actually on black vinyl - although they look like they are. Bizarrely, when a light is shone through them, they are coloured, like this one:

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Most have this dark red colour, but some are more blue, and one almost clear.

What puzzles me is that some display a range of colour tones on a single LP, as well as there being patches/streaks of colour, as if a dye was mixed in with the vinyl ball and the dye just wasn't distributed perfectly throughout.

I don't know what to make of this. The vinyl looks to be ordinary black opaque, which I thought it was all along. Anyone have any knowledge of this?


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