Something fishy is going on with the audio playback in simulator 2.7.3 (Windows 11). You can hear the sound crackling and some sounds are played at such a low volume you can hardly hear them. It seems to be purely a simulator issue as everything sounds right on an actual device.
I haven't tested with earlier 2.7 versions, but at least 2.6 still worked fine. I'm using lo-fi samples (16 kHz) and play them with samplePlayers.