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Rumble - turntable or background noise DG LP

Context: Not really audiophile guy. Set up: AXR 100, Debut Carbon w/Ortofon Blue, KEF LS 50, BW ASW 8 Sub. I am a subscriber to LA Phil so I know what things should sound like. 

I notice a fair amount of what I would call background noise and sub flutter or pulsing when I play Dvorak New World - Berliner/Kubelik and Beethoven 6 Wiener/Bohm. Both are new DG and "remastered". The sound otherwise is very good but the background noise is annoying. When I play C Botti Vol 1 on Blue Note, or one of the 45 RPM  like Brubek or D. Krall they are really quiet. You have to want to find the noise. I have double checked the stylus for proper set up. 1.8 on the nose by measurement. Any idea on why the DG's would be so much worse? I have compared the DG vinyl with the same DG CD's and well, for reasons the defy explanation, I like the sound of the vinyl much better except for the background noise.

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Suggest you take a 'good' record and a 'bad' record to your local HiFi dealer.  Explain that you'd like to listen on a good turntable to see where the rumble might be coming from.  There is the chance of a turntable sale if it is not on the record!

Sometimes traffic noise makes its way into a recording, or even the sound of the air-conditioning at the recording venue.  Or it could be a bad batch of vinyl.

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