"Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial


During the pandemic I've been upgrading my sound system.  I used to enjoy Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Trouble Water".  With my upgraded equipment the hi resolution audio sounds very synthetic, with one track on top of another, not like real music at all.  The voices are doubled and violins just layered on top.  On my same system, I played a live concert of Andre Previn playing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue".  It sounded real and beautiful, like a live performance.  Am I doing something wrong?
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Happened to listen to Bridge over Troubled Waters cd this weekend (and other S&G stuff) and thought it was surprisingly well recorded and sounding. Not all tracks though. The joy with a fine system is to hear it all, even the bad parts. I mean it is a studio product. Didn't listen to them as young so have no nostalgia here. If you want to hear what is possible to create in a studio today try Sierra Hull and the above mentioned Sarah.
There are a good and there are not so good high res systems. On a good the studio version of BOTW is fully enjoyable with some minor warts. Just so you know. 
Obviously Mr Garfunkel couldn't take those high notes in the end so he needed some help which screwed up the recording a bit (done better today). The same with Mr Mercury. But he had Mr Taylor to help him out. Whats the problem? Still a very enjoyable and interesting recording. You can clearly follow what they did in the studio. Thanks to high-res. 
Well, there's so much fine new (and old) music to listen to so I'm fine with that and don't complain anymore. Problem is when friends or children come visiting and they all request those crappy recordings.... :-(