Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs?

In a word, no.  I have a few LPs that are dead silent but it is the exception.  You can see my setup.  It all depends on the pressing and amount of play.  CDs have it on this question. IMHO. 

The reason CD's blew vinyl nearly off the face of the earth for many years was CD's promise of no noise, hiss, ticks, pops, no surface noise FOR LIFE.

Vinyl re-emerged, and our sophistication of the entire vinyl chain increased a great deal, it's a new world of vinyl, not everybody playing any old lp on any TT with any cartridge, misaligned .....

Interestingly my old records seem to have generally much less surface noise compared to newer pressings. All after cleaning with Kirmuss. Has little to do with the hardware involved.

Part of playing records is dealing with the various forms of noise that are always lurking.  It doesn’t just magically ever go away though some phono rigs are certainly more quite than others.