Hello dlcleveland.
Congratulations on your new system.

Like you, I'm also just beginning to enjoy vinyl. So, though I can't offer any help, I'm especially interested in your question. I think I've experienced something similar, but, for me, this sound doesn't occur with every record. In fact, I've only experienced it on one side of one record, leaving me similarly boggled.

I hope someone here can help you solve this. Thanks again.

That's a bad pressing unless it's doing it on every LP. If it does it on every LP then there's a seriously out of whack platter (unlikely).

Unfortunately, vinyl is easily flawed.

Dave

If it's every record it's the turntable- could be some junk on your stylus? Make sure the table is relatively level, and recheck your other calibrations. Generally I'd think it was just a bad record (like the hole being off center). If you can't solve it bring/send it back as you should not hear any such noise on even a reasonably clean record.

Yeah, that's not normal. Take it back to your dealer.