I've purchased about 100 LP's this year and a recent newcomer to my weekly music night music sessions (last Tuesday) thought I had the "most amazing" sounding CD player he had ever heard.
It's true the display on my CD was showing a disc in play, but the tonearm was also tracking a new 180-Gram release on LP, which was what was making music at that moment.
When I told him it was the LP (and proved it by cueing up) he was dumbstruck. Comments followed like "I didn't think LP's could be as quiet as CD" (and similar). This continued all night, we played LP's from the '60's through new single sided 45 RPM bought last week.
It ALL DEPENDS on the turntable, arm, cartridge and set up. The phono stage is critical too. The trouble you mention is totally outside my experience range. You either got a really terrible collection of vinyl or your system is in need of tune up.
By the way, I agree with Hdm that you can find great vinyl at $1.00. I have hundreds of LP's bought used from Half Price Books (a local hang out with used LP's too).
I hope this gets resolved before you despair and give up on the idea. It just kills me to hear others with this problem.
It's true the display on my CD was showing a disc in play, but the tonearm was also tracking a new 180-Gram release on LP, which was what was making music at that moment.
When I told him it was the LP (and proved it by cueing up) he was dumbstruck. Comments followed like "I didn't think LP's could be as quiet as CD" (and similar). This continued all night, we played LP's from the '60's through new single sided 45 RPM bought last week.
It ALL DEPENDS on the turntable, arm, cartridge and set up. The phono stage is critical too. The trouble you mention is totally outside my experience range. You either got a really terrible collection of vinyl or your system is in need of tune up.
By the way, I agree with Hdm that you can find great vinyl at $1.00. I have hundreds of LP's bought used from Half Price Books (a local hang out with used LP's too).
I hope this gets resolved before you despair and give up on the idea. It just kills me to hear others with this problem.