Question about background noise

The noise, or lack of noise, between cuts on an LP reveals any other source of noise other than the music, at the particular gain setting of the phono stage. Could be on the vinyl, could be the signal to noise ratio of your particular phono stage at that particular gain setting, could be due to any extraneous sources of noise in your system, like EMI and RFI. One thing I know: if I hear no inter-cut noise at my listening position, I am happy. If I hear "something", I try to think it through to determine what might be happening. Usually in those cases, I decide it’s nothing I can easily fix.

One phenomenon that could be operative in the OP's case is "bleed through".  This apparently can happen with masters made from tape or right on the LP, where the upcoming groove is heard through the groove being played.  I don't quite get the mechanism of the latter, but I do hear "pre-groove echo" on the odd occasion.  That is musical though.  I suppose it's even possible that electronic noise laid down in the studio is heard in between cuts.

@lewm ,

I thought of "bleed through" but the way the OP described his experience seemed to take that out of the equation.

cleeds- PMS?

cleeds writes:

Many things can contribute to noise on an LP, including dirt and a worn or improperly aligned stylus.

Q: Do any of these ever result in the "hollow sound" described?

A: No. 

And yet anyone who has listened to a lot of LPs, even really nicely cleaned ones on beautifully set up rigs, knows they aren't all dead quiet and in fact some do have some pretty odd sounding backgrounds. Which are not dirt, are not alignment, are not anything but in the pressing. Which at the very least means it is not absurd to consider.

My guess is you will find this one a little harder to take OTR.
(Off The Record. What did you think it meant?)

I think the increased fidelity of the Simaudio might be more revealing than the Lehmann I was using before. It's also a case of the particular LP, too. Some of my rock lps have little to no background hollowness; it's the acoustic recordings and the folk or jazz ones with a huge range of dynamics that have this srtifact