Vinyl's noise floor is heavily rumble-centric. Yup. Additionally, this roughly correlates with the noise floor in a "typical" room. The walls themselves do a

Vinyl's noise floor is heavily rumble-centric. Yup. Additionally, this roughly correlates with the noise floor in a "typical" room. The walls themselves do a great job of attenuating high-frequency noise from outside the room. The outside noise that does penetrate into a closed room will be in the lower frequencies. Also, our hearing's evolved to hear past intrusive transients like crackle or leaf rustling, so in every sense the noise floor of vinyl is incredibly deceptive. Very well put.