Import and play back music skips

[samboo]

I have Mac desktop. Catalina 10.15.7 Intel quad core i5 processor. I downloaded Audacity 3.3.3. When I import music I hear skips in headphones as I monitor. Then on playback I hear the skips on headphones. music on external speakers during import sounds fine. no skips so I know it isn’t the turntable or vinyl. What am I doing wrong? End goal is to get my underground albums into iTunes library. 2023-07-06T05:00:00Z