Audio gets muddy when dragging into sequence

[#1]

Since I updated to PP 2020 (v14) whenever I drag any music into my sequence it becomes distorted and a bit muddy. It's like it is being compressed somehow. The levels are always -6db and it just, for lack of a better term, sounds like crap.

The only way I have been able to work around this is to right-click on the audio track itself and make a new sequence from there - once I do that the audio sounds just like the original track that is in the source monitor.

Anyone else have this issue?

[#2]

Since I updated to PP 2020 (v14) whenever I drag any music into my sequence it becomes distorted and a bit muddy. It's like it is being compressed somehow. The levels are always -6db and it just, for lack of a better term, sounds like crap.

The only way I have been able to work around this is to right-click on the audio track itself and make a new sequence from there - once I do that the audio sounds just like the original track that is in the source monitor.

Anyone else have this issue?

[#3]

What kind of audio files are these, James. AIFF, WAV? If .MP3, please avoid those and use uncompressed files if you can. 

Thanks,
Kevin

[#4]

It doesnt matter if it's WAV, AIFF or MP3, they all do the same thing.

Just to note, they sound perfectly fine in the source monitor, they only get crushed when I drag them into an already made sequence.

And it did work fine before the update, which makes me think it is a prefrence issue or something. I had to trash my prefrences for Photoshop and Illustrator after I got those updates.