"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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Showing 1 response by harrylavo

This could be a longshot, but I had it happen to me.  If you are using a video receiver or a multi-disk player that does its own decoding, it could be an obscure problem like this.

I recently reset the settings on my Oppo 105 universal disk player.  In so doing, I chose the stereo settings since I am only using a stereo rig, but among the other settings I used neo 6 downmix settings.  The first disk I put on was a james taylor recording that was recorded in multi-channel SACD.  Just as you described there was a second slightly delayed and very electric sound on top of the stereo sound.  I tried another strictly CD recording .... nothing, just normal.  So I went back into the Oppo and illiminated the neo 6 downmix.  That did the trick.  As I said, a pretty esoteric thing but if nothing else seems to work .......