JPEG Export Soft, Grainy, Noisy

I shoot a Nikon D7000. I have it configured to write NEF RAW to one SDXC card and to write Small JPEG Basic to the other card (an Eye.Fi Pro).
I have found that if I take an unedited NEF RAW photo from my Aperture library, and export it as JPEG Original Size, it exports as about a 5.5MB file which is soft, grainy, and noisy when compaired to the 0.6MG Small JPEG Basic file that the camera produces. Also, since I am exporting the picture as "original size" I would have expected it to be the same size as a Large JPEG Fine file produced by the camera -- that is, about 7.75MB.
Why is the file exported from Aperture soft, grainy, noisy, and smaller than exptected? Can someone please explain what is going on here? I would have expected that when I export from Aperture, I get at least as good of quality as produced by the camera itself. However, that is not what I am seeing. It really bothers me that a small basic JPEG from the camera is usually superior quality to the largest possible JPEG size from Aperture.
Thoughts or suggestions?

1. Check the actual settings at "Aperture→Presets→Image Export" for the Preset "JPEG Original Size". These may be mis-set. "Quality" defaults to "10". Do you know what settings your camera uses?
2. How are you examining the exported JPG? You must examine it at 100% in Preview (and probably other programs) to judge the quality. Preview has its own method of displaying photos at screen sizes smaller that 1:1; a few users recently have posted their disappointment with their exports when viewed in Preview at a small size, but this was due to Preview's presentation and was not present in the full-size files.

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