Inner groove "Rumble"

Did you try cleaning your stylus? It could be the result of vinyl residue built up on the stylus.

Might help if you say what turntable, what tonearm, what cartridge.

Marakanetz what would the phono preamp have to do with noise only on a consistent part of the record?

It sounds more like a stylus or tonearm problem, I had a similar problem with a rega 300/blackbird towards the end of the record. It would start mistracking about the same place you mentioned, my guess is it was the cartridge but I replaced the cartridge and the tonearm so I never really solved the problem.

Tracking at the end of the record is very difficult for a cartridge/tonearm...my best guess is a stylus problem.

Lewm ..... all there... please click on my system.
Nick ..... I cleaned the stylus, but no improvement. For years, I've been cleaning the stylus after every listening session.
Marakanetz ..... as Pops says, why would the phono stage only cause a problem with the inner grooves ?
Pops ..... I just don't understand why a "stylus or tonearm problem" would happen all of a sudden like this.

Adam what tonearm do you have, the rega I had used a magnet to control the anti skate. For me it happened like you say...all of the sudden. The further into the outer grooves the arm/cartridge rode it started making a distorted sound and then would actually jump backwards a bit. I thought it was an A/S problem and could never solve, it also did not do it on every album but did on most.

I made several adjustments to the arm and could never solve the issue. I moved on to a new tonearm and cartridge so I do not know positivly what the problem was...even though I suggested it is a cart problem above for you, I am fairly certain my problem was with the tonearm and most likely A/S...