"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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“Bridge...” was definitely mixed to fill an automobiles cabin with a cacophonous sound that would overwhelm highway noise when driving 50 mph or more.  As for listenable in a hi fi rig?  N O
It is MORE than listenable on my rig.   Anyone is welcome to come hear it..
...exactly. The same recording on different systems can have a different impact on a listener as to it’s inherent quality.

Is there really no such thing as ’relative recording quality’...I don’t actually know. I just know that as a group, we audiophiles might like to Think there is such a thing as relative recording quality...but is there really...?? Can we really define it’s limits? I occasionally come across cause to wonder how safe it is to think that we actually can.
When you put down the sound of BOTW you are denigrating the work of this man, Roy Halee.  He knows more about what sounds good than you do.
I linked to the Roy Halee interview.  He says that he banged on a garbage can with a microphone inside when recording "Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful.  Sorry, to me that is not music.